Each fortnight during November and December Toronto High School’s year 7 LEAP class ventured out to Coal Point to assist with the surveying of Tetratheca juncea along the West Ridge.
What a crew! Each session saw 17-21 enthusiastic students, the amazing Ms Havercamp and Mr Banks form into 3 survey groups. The team came out well prepared having researched the threatened species and set up recording proforma for the data entry.
During the first session the teams identified and tagged the TJ clumps. For the next two sessions they recorded the location on GPS and entered the data about the size and weed threats onto tablets. Over a hundred clumps were located and all of the survey data transcribed ready to be uploaded onto Bionet
The THS crew also monitored nestboxes in the survey area and to everyone’s joy a family of Squirrel gliders were recorded in one of the boxes, reinforcing the benefits for additional habitat options.
The THS crew were supported by Joel, Glen and Harvey from TIN’s landcare team who provided surveying and on-ground expertise in weed identification as Formosa lily and Asparagus fern were targeted during the field trips. Additional thanks to Coal Point Public School for providing their facilities for water stops.
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