Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 44 Friday, November 2, 2012
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Volunteers attack invasive species By Barb Brouwer MARKET NEWS STAFF
The problem is bigger than shovels. That is a discovery made by some 28 people who showed up at White Lake last Saturday to try and deal with a highly invasive plant.
The volunteers met at 10 a.m. and spent two hours in the cold, wet, miserable marsh to try to at least reduce the spread of the yellow flag iris. A native of Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa, the yellow flag iris is extremely difficult to re-
move, says Carmen Massey, White Lake resident and Shuswap Trail Alliance stewardship program co-ordinator and board member. “We took about 10 bags of yellow flag irises and did enough to realize it is so hard to dig this stuff out, and invasive plants need to
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be dealt with at the early stages,” she says, noting volunteers snipped seed pods off that had not dispersed their seeds, in an effort to reduce the plant’s vigour. “All invasive plant material has to be removed and disposed of properly at the
landfill, otherwise it will grow back.” Columbia Shuswap Regional District paid for the disposal and explained how it handles invasive plant material so volunteers would handle the plants in See Lake on page 3