On a sunny Friday, Theo Nguyen and Stan Hussey unlatch the doors of a shipping container in a lot behind their Burnaby, B.C., workshop. Outside, spools of fibre optic cable line a fence. Inside, a slight smell of ammonia hangs in the air.
Conservationists in B.C. are now using a mapping app to eradicate spartina, an invasive grass species that if left unchecked could transform local salt marsh ecosystems and threaten flooding of nearby coastal communities.