Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly Habitat Restoration Involves Hornby Students and Volunteers

environment · October 2021 · Helliwell Provincial Park

In mid-October 2021, 19 students from Hornby Island Community School, along with volunteers and biologists, participated in habitat restoration at Helliwell Provincial Park to support the endangered Taylor’s Checkerspot butterfly. Activities included removing invasive plants and planting 950 native plant plugs. This is the sixth consecutive year of such restoration efforts.

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• “In mid-October, 19 students from Hornby Island’s Community School joined... in Helliwell Provincial Park. The group removed hundreds of weeds and replaced them with 950 native plant plugs... It was the sixth consecutive year that the school participated in the coastal meadow habitat restoration project.” — The Islands Grapevine – November 18th, 2021 (November 18th, 2021)

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