Volunteer at Belle Isle Marsh - Short Beach

Join us to help remove invasive plants from Belle Isle Marsh, Boston's largest remaining salt marsh! Volunteers will be given gloves and bags to remove invasive Garlic Mustard and Bittersweet vines from designated areas around the marsh. All supplies will be provided and a Department of Conservation and Recreation biologist will be on site to guide volunteers to the correct species.

Learn more about the work to strengthen and protect Belle Isle Marsh here: mysticriver.org/belleislemarsh

*Pre-registration required. We have limited event capacity — so please only register if you will make it that day.

Location Details: Water, and cell service are available. The nearest bathroom is approximately a 10 minute walk away. We will meet next to the parking lot.

Activity Details: We will walk along the John Joseph Kilmartin Pathway which is primarily a wide flat trail (not-paved) with some boardwalk sections (View photos here). There are some garlic mustard and bittersweet patches accessible on the main path. To reach some garlic mustard patches, volunteers can go off path and onto occasionally uneven ground by trees and bushes. Volunteers will handpull the garlic mustard and bittersweet and collect it in trash bags for disposal.