Editor:
The advanced spring season is bringing out the Scotch broom early this year, particularly noticeable along the “Great Wall of Sechelt” at the Trail Bay Estates and Silver Stone properties.
It seems odd that folks would pay good money for view lots and expensive new homes and put up with the blight of Scotch broom down front. Perhaps they don’t realize that broom is on the invasive species list because it crowds out native species along with the birds and beneficial insects that depend on them.
Perhaps the folks living above the Great Wall could encourage the developer to bust the broom or even get out there and do it themselves like the residents along Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay and Beach Avenue in Roberts Creek have done. Those streets have become broom-free thanks to volunteer efforts and community spirit. Good on them.
Mary Beth Knechtel, Halfmoon Bay
