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Want to protect the forest? Bootbrush stations protect your favourite trail. Get a grown-up to help! Bootbrush Bobcat says thank you for caring about the forest.
Scientists find the mats under bootbrush stations always show a collection of invasive species seeds and jumping worm cocoons that (at 1-3 mm) could have easily walked into the forest on the soil of people's shoes! If you forget your forest-friendly shoes, bootbrush stations have been proven to greatly help protect the forest from contaminated soil in shoe-treads.
Here is the wood you will need cut to size for a bootbrush station. A bootbrush station also needs a sign!
Here is a sign that should be at every trailhead leading into Algonquin Park, but there are no bootbrush stations there yet at all! That is because there is not enough public pressure to consider the helth of the forest soil by preventing hikers from tracking in jumping worm cocoons.
Bootbrush Bobcat needs your help! Click on the link below to download a petition that helps a trail near you get a bootbrush station installed with educational signage!
While many types of brushes can be made into a bootbrush station in a pinch, the store-bought parts with strong bristles are probably the best. but even the awesome ones at places like the Bruce Trail, while taking just a moment to use, can only be used by one person at a time.
In the future, new designs must be imagined for stations that will brush bicycle tires, recreational wheelchairs, and pet paws and allow lots of usage by many hikers moving through. The reality of invasive species indicates that every trail needs a bootbrush station and building them gets the conversation rolling about these "shoe hitchikers" and the danger of invasive species.
Boot brush stations are always a very effective way to stop 1-3 mm cocoons and invasive plant seeds from hitchhiking into forest trails on people's shoes!
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