Volunteers team up to battle aggressive menace at beloved nature area: 'This work is so important'

Volunteers team up to battle aggressive menace at beloved nature area: 'This work is so important'

Volunteers of all ages came together to help revitalize a beloved green space in British Columbia, Canada, by taking on a highly aggressive invasive plant.  The Aldergrove Star reported that 35 people spent hours manually removing invasive Himalayan blackberry from the Derek Doubleday Arboretum in Langley. The volunteers from Green Teams Canada removed 12 cubic meters of the plants, enough to fill 75 bathtubs. For about half of the volunteers, t…