{"id":645651,"date":"2026-05-03T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:22:09","slug":"city-of-nanaimo-volunteers-attack-invasive-plants-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645651\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Nanaimo, volunteers attack invasive plants | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d798e620-b43e-4949-bfb0-a4f089401bb2.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite extensive efforts clearing wide areas, Scotch broom still has a presence throughout Nanaimo, including Linley Valley. (Image Credit: File photo\/NanaimoNewsNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By Ian Holmes<\/p>\n<p>community effort<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 3, 2026 | 6:04 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 While removing invasive plants isn\u2019t exclusively a fair-weather activity, the spring bloom sprouts all kinds of damaging species.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous neighbourhood-level work parties are chipping away at a variety of pesky invasive plants around Nanaimo throughout May.<\/p>\n<p>Recognized locally as Invasive Plant Removal Month, Damon Johnston, the City\u2019s recreation services manager, said addressing this issue on public and private property makes a significant difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite extensive efforts clearing wide areas, Scotch broom still has a presence throughout Nanaimo, including Linley Valley. (Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,295,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,66,82],"class_list":["post-645651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-environment","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-science","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}