November 15
9:30am – 11:30am
Thanks to everyone that came out to our last invasive plant pull of the season!
October 26th
9:30am – 11:30am
We have made some good progress in this urban forest and want to continue its upkeep!
May 10, 2025
9:30am – 11:30am
Invasive Plant Pull
Our last invasive pull of the season. This time we removed small balsam (Impatiens parviflora) from the forest and preventing it’s spread further into the woods. To learn more about this plant check out the Sea to Sky Invasive Plant Council’s Factsheet.
The area where we’ve done past removal is now filled with fringecup, Siberian miner’s lettuce and bleeding hearts! And of course, we found some more ivy to remove.
April 13, 2025
9:30am – 11:30am
Invasive Plant Pull
Thank you to everyone that came out! We made some wonderful progress on our current ivy site!
Mar 29, 2025
9:30am
Tree Planting
Thank you so much to everyone that came out! We planted over 100 trees including Douglas fir, grand fir, Western cedar and Sitka spruce trees.
Mar 16, 2025
9:30am
Ivy Pull
Help tackle the ivy to make space for native plants within the forest.
March 5, 2025
6:00pm – 7:45pm
2025 Annual Annual General Meeting
Join us for our 2025 Annual General Meeting including a presentation from Joshua Ralph of the Invasive Art Initiative.
Community Room, McGill Library
October 29, 2024
1:00pm
Native Planting
Come plant native plants!
We’ll be getting a variety of native plants to help the forest recover and replant areas we’ve done invasive plant removal in.
October 20, 2024
9:30am
Invasive Plant Removal
Oct 20th 930a-1130am is our next invasive species removal date on the hill.
Meet at Harbour View park (north end of North Grosvenor) just before 930a with tools in hand and dressed for the weather. If you don’t have tools, we have extras.
Once again, if you have high school students eager to get volunteer hours for school, bring them along if they are willing to work.
Our young people are our future!!
September 21, 2024
9:30am
Invasive Plant Pull
Once more we are attacking the invasive ivy, laurel and holly on the hill.
We are asking for your help on Sep 21 930am-1100a to help in the removal process.
Meet at the north end of Grosvenor at Harbour View park (the pits).
Bring your gloves and shears (if you have them).
June 15, 2024
9:30am
Ivy Pull
Meet at the north end of Grosvenor Ave by the park on Capitol Hill.
Dress for the weather. Bring clippers and gloves if you have them, if not, no worries we’ve got plenty of spares!
May 11, 2024
9:30am
Ivy Pull
Our next event will be May 11th at 930a-11am and once again we are tackling the ivy.
Meet at the north end of Grosevenor Ave above the park on Capitol Hill with clippers in hand and dressed for the weather. If you do not have clippers, there should be extras that you can borrow.
We thank everyone who in the past has helped out as well as those who have supported us by being members and are not able to help out.
April 10, 2024
6:00pm
2024 Annual General Meeting
Our annual general meeting is scheduled for Apr 10th at 600p at McGill Public Library in the meeting room. We would love everyone to join us, both members and non members so that we can give you a greater understanding as to what our mission is and what we have accomplished so far..
We will have Mark Greenwood from the City of Burnaby speaking on Urban Forest Management from 600-700p and then a quick meeting afterwards.
In light of the wildfires that are now the norm, it is even more important than ever that we take care of these forests. It takes a community and it is all of our responsibility.
April 2, 2024
Nature Kids Walk
Erica Mulder hosted a walk through the forest with Nature Kids BC (https://naturekidsbc.ca/) talking about invasive and native plants throughout the area.
February 25, 2024
9:30am
Ivy Pull
Our first event of this new year! Come join us to pull out some ivy to help protect our trees and open up sunlight for native plants.
Meet at the end of N Grosvenor Ave at Harbourview Park at 9:30am. We will be working until 11am. Please dress warmly, wear good shoes and if you can bring pruning shears and gloves.
November 25, 2023
9:30am
Tree Planting
We did it! Planted 40 trees, including western hemlock, red cedar, sitka spruce, pine and douglas fir. It took about 9 of us just over an hour. Thank you to all who came out. It was a great activity!
Thanks also to Mark from The City of Burnaby who came along to help as well and provided the trees!
July 12, 2023
6:30pm
2023 Annual General Meeting
Jul 12th, 2023, McGill Public Library meeting room, 630p-745p
We welcome all and encourage you to attend. We are looking for ideas and suggestions as to other ways that we, as a society, can look at to keep our forest sustainable, whether it be building bat boxes, planting non invasive plants etc. etc. We are also looking for ideas as to how to raise some money to support these ideas. i.e. local grants, sponsorships, etc.
June 11, 2023
9:30am
Small Balsam Pull
We pulled small balsam (Impatiens parviflora) from the end of Highfield Dr to help prevent it’s spread further into the woods. And, of course, got some ivy while we were there!
May 7, 2023
10:00am
Ivy Pull
Meet at the north end of Grosvenor St on Capitol Hill by 10am this time on Sunday, May 7th..
Bring clippers, gloves and dress for the weather
April 2, 2023
10:30am
Ivy Pull
April 2, 2023 we are lucky to have Metro Vancouver’s invasive species specialist Tasha Murray, coming out to join us in pulling some ivy and to show us the best way to manage this invasive species in the forest.
This event starts at 1030a and will go for about 1.5 -2 hrs. We ask that you bring your clippers and any larger clippers if you have them to start to tackle this problem that is preventing other natural species from thriving and is killing our larger trees.
February 12, 2023
10:00am
Nature Walk
On Feb 12, 2023 we are planning a Walk About in the forest of Capitol Hill. This walkabout is to introduce you to what some of our plans are for the forest, to advise people who are not aware of the invasive species in our forest as well as to take any questions that you might have. We are open to ideas as to what events you might be interested in the upcoming year.
This event will take place starting at the top of the hill by the bowl at Harbourview Park (Grosvener Crescent) at 1000am and will run for approximately one hour.
Capitol Hill Tree Keepers 