Found some invasive English Ivy in a local Coastal Oldgrowth Forest, so Pintxo & I took it upon ourselves to cut it out to keep the lands we live on healthier for longer!
As far as invasive species go, English Ivy is one of the most nefarious, as it will gradually choke out and starve its host tree of light to kill it, while spreading throughout entire forests. In the stages of invasive species spread (Prevention, Eradication, Containment, Control), this Ivy is pretty much at a control level in many urban areas throughout Turtle Island, but in this little pocket its still relatively uncommon so an eradication approach is more effective.
While it is damaging to these native ecosystems, it’s worth noting that from an evolutionary perspective, English Ivy is pretty remarkable at filling and outcompeting other plants in these niches. It’s an incredible being on this planet, a gorgeous one at that, it’s just not ecologically appropriate to these ecosystems and thus needs to go.
Usually just clipping the vine close to the ground is enough to kill the plant, paired with active monitoring over a couple years to make sure nothing in the ground shoots up, and in this case it was a pretty clean tree so I decided to pull some vines down. However, if the vines have already mixed into the lower branches on a tree, I would highly recommend NOT pulling them down to avoid having any branches fall down onto you, so thats no good!
It’s nothing much, but it’s honest work. Now get out there and do what you can to keep the lands you live on and love healthy!
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~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples-Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~
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