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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 for a bootbrush station cut to size. 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 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!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dXoERKV-sO0079MTVUsCnwFxrArzNF4a/view?usp=sharing
While many types of brushes can be made into a bootbrush station in a pinch, even the strongest ones, which are not expensive at all, are only great if they are used by a few people at a time, while a station that will brush bicycle tires, recreational wheelchairs, and pet paws and holds up with a lot of use is what is truly needed. In the long run, every trail needs a bootbrush station and building them gets the conversation rolling about how to accomodate more active foot traffic while educating the public about the danger of invasive species. They really are a great way to stop 1-3 mm cocoons from hitchhiking into forest trails on people's shoes!
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