World Wetlands Day 2/2/19

The Earth’s climate is changing due to increased amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and

other green house gases (GHG) in the atmosphere due to human activity.

The global community is acting via the Paris agreement to stabilise and reduce GHG to limit the increase in global average temperature and in turn will reduce the number of extreme weather events. We all need to play a part to fix the problem, and there are solutions.

Protecting wetlands is one of the keys to coping with climate change. We are not powerless against climate change. Wetlands help us prepare for, cope with and bounce back from the impacts of climate change. Wetlands come in a variety of forms. Locally we have been protecting and expanding the small wetland remnants at Carey Bay, a Swamp-Oak Forest. Wetlands also include mangroves and seagrasses.

The Carey Bay Wetland acts like a sponge absorbing floodwaters during storms, if you walk through it you’ll realise how wet it stays long after the rains have left. Wetlands naturally absorb and store carbon; they are the most effective carbon sinks on Earth.

We also have seagrass meadows along our foreshore acting as a buffer from extreme weather, reducing the intensity of waves and storm surges. Seagrasses also absorb carbon 35times faster than rainforests. Do you have an environmentally friendly mooring that protects our seagrass beds? Want to help the planet…one mooring at a time?

Would you like to fortify your foreshore? Casuarinas are nature’s own shock absorbers, these whispering warriors are prepared to be the front line of defence against storm surges and offer property protection. If you’re noticing your foreshore eroding the CPPA is growing some Casuarinas from locally collected seed and we can put one aside for you to help protect your water frontage.

EEC in danger

A big thank you to Arthur who detected smoke early one morning and discovered a smoldering log in the Carey Bay Wetlands. He alerted firefighters who extinguished the fire, which had been deliberately lit.

An additional threat has come from the destruction of mature trees and the building of camps and structures in the Carey Bay Wetland area. Landcarers have been working hard to protect this Endangered Ecological Community, making it a pleasant place for all, but their good work is being undone and creating safety issues.

These threats are a risk to the bushland and the homes nearby. Items retrieved from the ‘camp site’ include spade, hammer, lighter and backpack, which have been reported to the Ranger.

The landcare crew are very grateful to a mystery mower-person for again cutting the grass alongside the Scout hall…it looks fantastic.

World Wetlands Day

On the 2nd February the world celebrated wetlands and CPPA landcarers did as well, enjoying a morning of camaraderie and purposeful movement. Landcaring has a very calming effect and is more like active mediation than physical work. The wetlands were slightly moist after the recent rain, the birds in abundance…perfect.

The Summer Bird survey had sightings at the wetlands of a Pied Butcherbird looking after young and two juvenile Dollarbirds, highlighting the importance of wetlands as feeding and foraging grounds for birdlife due to the abundance of bugs and water.

Locals have been landcaring at Carey Bay Wetlands since 2003 when a Clean Up Australia Day crew tackled the Lantana wall that bounded the Excelsior Pde edge. Since that time 2025 hours have gone towards encouraging the natural recovery processes by reducing the impact of weeds in this Endangered Ecological Community. We are very lucky to have such a gem in our Landcare crown.

Toronto Contributions Catchment Plan

Council adopted the Toronto Contributions Catchment Plan on 28/12/16. The full document is available online. There are several items of local interest in this plan that are proposed over the next decade subject to public consultation which are listed below.

Parks Facilities and Open Space

Carey Bay- Hampton St Reserve (Pony Club)

• Multi-court, $45,702. Timing 2016-20 
• Community Garden $20,501 Timing 2020-25 
• BMX track Cook St or Hampton St reserve. $270,150 Timing 2020-25 
• Upgrade to fenced dog park- Hampton St Reserve or Rathmines. $177,121. Timing 2016-20 

Toronto

• Toronto foreshore Park. Major upgrade $13,677,244. Timing 2016-2020 
• Lions Park upgrade. $507,800 Timing 2020-25 
• Goffet Park upgrade. $558,580. Timing 2025-30 
• Play - Toronto Foreshore Major upgrade $2,081,980 Timing 2016-20 
• Outdoor gym equipment Toronto Foreshore $101,560. Timing 2016-20 
• Community Garden Toronto Park-Renwick St $20,501. Timing 2020-25 

Paths/tracks/trails

• Coal Point ridge line- $203,102. Timing 2025-30 
• Shared path, extend Greenway to Wharf Rd- $1,296,373 Timing 2016-20 

Transport

• Installation of compliant bus infrastructure on Brighton Av. East and west side Not shelters. $30,000 timing 2015-2030 

Community Facilities

• Upgrade of facilities at Kilaben Bay Hall-ongoing 
• Provision of additional library space at Toronto or Wangi 

Nature of future development

The rationale behind this community investment is summarized below from the plan.

Between 2015 and 2030, there is forecast to be 2,198 additional private residential dwellings and 245 additional rooms/beds in non-private accommodation in the Toronto Contributions Catchment, accommodating 5,412 additional persons (Toronto Contributions Catchment Plan Residential and Employing Generating Development Estimate - 2015).

By 2030, there is projected to be an increase in employment generating development with an additional 28,967m² of commercial, and 43,255m² of industrial floor space. This floor space is anticipated to create 1,723 additional workers within the Toronto Contributions Catchment.

These future residential and employment generating populations will create a demand for new, enhanced or augmented community infrastructure and hence all new residential and non-residential development is to be levied under this Plan

The Plan has been prepared to cater for development anticipated for 2015 to 2030 which is the period for which residential population and employment projections have been prepared.

National Tree Day

Everyone is welcome to an autumn National Tree Day planting on Sunday 17^th April from 9am-noon at the Angela Close end of the Carey Bay Wetlands. A  border-buffer of local native plants, Blue Flax Lily-Dianella, will be planted to protect the Endangered Ecological Community that is the Carey Bay Wetlands. 

The planting will be along the back fence lines of neighbours to the reserve. This planting aims to protect the edges of the wetland from weed invasion.

A BBQ for all and a Treasure Hunt for children is on offer. Please BYO gloves and any planting tools you have.

Wetlands for Our Future

World Wetlands Day (2/2/16) has been and gone, but this year there was a gift given that will ensure our local wetland at Carey Bay continues to be strengthened and the problems confronting it addressed.

The first of the gift givers were volunteers from Trees In Newcastle, they tackled one of the most common problems our reserves face, the impacts of garden escapes. Twenty metres away from the Endangered Ecological Community - Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplain, was a historic ‘garden-sculpture bed’ which contained many immanent threats to the wetland as well as decommissioned art works.

The weed targets that were tackled included a colossal Cassia tree, fully laden with seeds ready for dispersal by the local birdlife, spider-plants creeping out their tentacles in search of moisture and a wandering wisteria that long ago escaped over the fence. A three hour landcare session saw the healthy weed wall reduced to a mountain of green.

Neighbourly concern about the amount of green waste impeding pedestrian progress around the Pony club saw locals that care for the land combine efforts to address the pile of problematic materials. A trip to the recyclers saw cast off metal scraps removed and friendly neighbours provided a high sided trailer to cart away most of the remaining vegetation.

The following week local landcarers then completed the task distributing logs for habitat and ensuring any seed or weed propagules were dealt with.

Landcaring takes many forms, there are those that can go out weekly as a group, some help when and where they can, it was such a wonderful World Wetland Day gift to receive support from the neighbours, the locals and the landcarers. Thankyou for giving your time and tools.

The colossal Cassia

Slow and steady

A community effort...a great result

Pony Club Update

There have been a few comments on for a name for the ‘Pony Club’.

In the last Chronicle the site was referred to as Hale’s Dairy, but evidently it was Moss’ Farm and on checking the history lake Mac site an image refers to Haling’s Dairy (was active 1930’s). Does anyone have any details about the history of the area they can share? The suggestion of an aboriginal name Puntei Reserve has appealed to some. Do you have any naming ideas? Please let the CPPA committee know. 

In November LMCC advised it had started the long promised Recreational Land Plan for the Toronto Area and the uses for Pony Club land will be up for discussion. 

Correspondence from LMCC has stated that “Council has plans to establish some recreation facilities on the area categorised as sportsground, which will be determined with the preparation of the Toronto Recreation & Land Plan”.

The Pony Club land currently has two classifications to it, a ‘Natural Area’(Green) category and a ‘Sportsground’ (Yellow) category. 

Building a Buffer

Carey Bay Wetlands on Clean Up Australia Day 2003

The Carey Bay Wetlands will have some much needed protection from invasive exotic grasses and garden waste dumpers when a buffer zone of 700 Spiky Mat-Rush – Lomandra longifolia is planted on Thursday 9^th and 16^th during the April School holidays as part of the Threatened Species Last Stand on the Coal Point Peninsula project. 

The assisted regeneration of the Carey Bay Wetlands started in 2003 with Clean Up Australia Day providing the impetus to clean up the weeds. The lantana was as high as an elephant’s eye and a dozen years on you would have to search pretty hard to find any at all.  

There is still a lot to do though… when the lantana barrier came down, the edges became a soft target for dumping garden waste and the ex-lawn clippings took up residence as a Buffalo grass bandit, reaching out and into the Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest, an Endangered Ecological Communities (EEC). 

The buffer strip being prepared for the April 2015 planting

The wetland has shown amazing resilience. One local stopped by to share with the landcarers the history of the site and recalled when it was a farm and there was ‘no trees there at all’. Now there are three recognised EECs present with no planting having occurred. This is a testament to the longevity of the local seed-bank. Landcare is about supporting the natural process of regeneration and it’s heartening to know that a landcaring hand can make such a difference.

The local landcarers have been ably assisting by the TIN landcare crew, preparing the site for an April community planting.  The grass edge has been sensitively treated with glyphosate to ensure the planting has the best chance of survival. Rocks and bits of old wire fence from the farming days are being removed to ensure that there are no trip hazards, holes are being dug and the mulch will arrive in time for the planting process.

Everyone is welcome to come along to the planting between 9am and noon on Thursday 9^th and 16^th April, Excelsior Parade, Carey Bay, sign on near the Ambrose Street intersection. Wear sun safe clothing, enclosed footwear and a hat and BYO water bottle. Morning tea will be provided at 11am.

Another corridor in the Landcare compendium

In 1995 the Progress Association became a Landcare group, that’s 20 years ago! Our first landcare project was at Gurranba Reserve and we’ve continued to identify, protect and regenerate significant public assets throughout the community ever since.

In March another important parcel was added to the local landcaring compendium, the Hampton St to Laycock St corridor link was extended. Previously a triangular parcel of only 0.145ha at the Pony Club end the landcare site is now 0.596ha and covers the full length of the road reserve.

This narrow parcel of public land may at some time in the future become a road connecting Hampton St and Laycock St. The local landcarers are keen to invest time and resources to regenerate this parcel and increase the community awareness of this vital public vegetated corridor that connects Coal Point and Carey Bay at its narrowest point. 

Lessons learnt from 20 years of landcaring are many, an early one, which continues to resonate, is that not everyone sees the beauty in the bush and would rather the beasts that turn quality bushland into weed infested no-go zones. 

This appears to be the case in this small reserve where the full complement of environmentally destructive activities is found. It’s used as a communal toilet, parking station, green waste dump zone, stormwater outlet and backyard extension. It does beg the question would you let someone do this in your own backyard? And if this answer is no then why is it OK to do it in what is the public’s bigger backyard?  

And what about the bushland garden? What if someone came into your yard and chopped down the plants that you spent the last two years nurturing and watering in drought conditions, plants that were specially selected so the neighbours wouldn’t get upset, ones that would grow low and not be a problem and provide food for the local birdlife, would you be entitled to be upset? The local landcarers were. 

At the Hampton Street Corridor landcarers are trying to turn the tide of years of dumping, neglect and abuse of public land to make an area that is a community and natural asset, worthy of protection and hopefully strengthen the case for not putting it under asphalt at some time in the future.

If you’d like to be involved in the regeneration of the Hampton St Corridor or a local landcare project please contact Robyn or Suzanne for further details.

Hunter Water Cleans Up Carey Bay

Clean Up Australia Day came a week early to Carey Bay Wetlands when Hunter Water came to the rescue to address an environmental incident that had been putting sewage into the Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest, an Endangered Ecological Community.

The local landcare team became aware the wetland was ‘a bit on the nose’ and reported the finding to Hunter Water just before morning tea. By lunchtime the advanced troop was out undertaking an inspection, treading where few have dared to tread and discovering what appeared to be solid ground was really an island of not much substance. Carefully maneuvering over a fallen log bridge to the inspection hole, the blockage in the sewer main was identified, the emergency call put out and an explanation of the process provided to the landcare crew.

Within an hour the mains un-blockers were there, the bog-logjam was released and the sewer system was once again flowing. Fortunately the lay of the land meant that spill was contained within the wetland system and not flowing directly into Puntei Creek and thence the Lake.

…then came the clean up.

Over the next few days the offending substances were sucked from the wetland and fresh water flushed through the ecosystem. The landcare crew were informed that water samples would be taken before and after the clean up treatment.

A week later and back landcaring at the wetland and the birds had a song in their voice, the landcarers had a song in their heart and no pong in their noses and the Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest showed very little sign of damage from all the activity.

Sincere thanks to Hunter Water for the expeditious Clean Up of one of our local treasurers.

For more information on this specialand endangered plant community see the information sheet

Looking gloriously green from the excess nutrients

Looking like a Swamp Oak Floodplain forest should, Sea Rush-Juncus kraussii in the foreground, with the surrounding canopy of Swamp Oak- Casuarina glauca

More Furry Friends by Robyn Gill – Landcare Group

Pic. John Gould [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons,

 John Gould, F.R.S., Mammals of Australia, Vol. III Plate 25, London, 1863

In the past year, while working at Carey Bay Wetland with its quite large tidal creek, landcarers have found dead three Native Water Rats (think of Rat in The Wind In The Willows). These are Australia’s largest rodent with scientific name Hydromys chrysogaster which refers to its golden belly fur, and were known as Rakali by Aboriginal people.

Native Water Rats are elusive and shy, semi-aquatic with partially webbed feet and very prominent whiskers. They are thought to fill the same niche in the environment as the Otter in the northern hemisphere. 

It’s lucky we have any left as during the depression of the 1930’s they were hunted for their water repellent fur when a ban was placed on imported fur. Earlier, during the Bubonic Plague, a bounty was put on rats and many of the locals were killed although the imported Black Rat was the culprit (as shown in some photos of the time). 

There is now a study underway in Sydney Harbour to observe them as it is thought they might be able to play a part in control of the Black Rat because of the larger size of the Rakali and its ability to defend territory if the invader can be reduced in numbers.

Feral cats and foxes are major predators but there is a also concern that they are being put at risk by coming into contact with baits aimed at the Black Rat, so care should be taken with placing of these baits. 

NTD to support EEC at CBW

National Tree Day (NTD) will come early this year with a mass planting of 700 Lomandra longifolia planned for the April school holidays at the Carey Bay Wetlands (CBW). The site preparations are underway with a two metre strip being treated by killing off the exotic grasses in readiness for planting and mulching. 

The Autumn planting program hopes to ensure the plants are well and truly settled in before next summer and provide multiple opportunities for locals to do their bit to protect the Endangered Ecological Communities (EEC) in the Carey Bay Wetland complex.

One of the aims of the planting is to define the edge of the wetland to prevent the dumping of garden waste. The invasion from exotic grasses is a threat to the EEC. Thousands of hours of landcaring effort are being given to rectify the historical problems generated by such past actions. 

Unfortunately, very recently, another quantity of lawn clippings was dumped just inside the edge of the EEC and is suspected to be from unaware mowing contractors. Please let your contractors know that the Endangered Ecological Communities of the Carey Bay Wetlands are not for dumping garden waste. 

Landcare Update- Robyn Gill

Hampton St Link, Carey Bay Wetlands and Burnage Reserve have had a good late winter spruce up and should be ready for spring, which seems to be here already. The Rails, Finches, Plovers and many other birds are making the most of the landcaring efforts and are often very close and busy feeding when we're working. 

Carey Bay Wetlands benefitted from National Tree Day with 550 new plants installed in record time by 24 locals. They are settling in to make the most of the great conditions. 

Gurranba Reserve is the focus reserve for September and nature is providing a surprising array of welcome additions being helped along by some weed removal, which is especially satisfying.

One addition we hope not to discover are the `barker nests’ that have sprung up since the change of the leash free area from Birriban. 

The relocation of the leash free area freed the children’s playground from incursion by dogs of varying forms. Unfortunately now the local wildlife in the bushland remnants play hide & seek with the dogs straying from the large mown areas as they leave reminders of their presence. 

Please owners ..spare us this stinky problem by keeping your dogs in the mown areas and picking up after them  as required by council.

Get Outside and Grow - National Tree Day Sunday July 28

View National Tree Day site in a larger map

This year we’re aiming to get 850 plants planted at the Carey Bay Wetlands, on the Pony Club side, to begin the process of expanding the Endangered Ecological Community- Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest on Coastal Floodplain. 

At present a mere remnant of its former glory, the hope is over the next five years to bring it back from the brink and create a corridor to link it to other remnant vegetation in the Carey Bay catchment.

There will be opportunities to plant a tree or two, a BBQ to meet the locals and neighbours, a wetland walk and a treasure hunt for the young at heart to explore this rather special bit of bush. 

Planting is from 9am till noon. The closest access points to walk to the planting area are from Excelsior Parade, along the track at the eastern most point of the reserve near Angela Close, the  walkway in Angela Close, or from Hampton Street.

You’ll also be able to catch up with the local landcarers and find out what is happening with the Threatened Species project. 

You can be part of the country’s largest community tree planting and nature-care event. Join thousands of other community groups, sport clubs, faith groups and families, in making a difference to our community, fostering a love of nature and creating positive environmental change. 

This year you will be part of a milestone event to plant the 20-millionth seedling since the campaign started in 1996. With your help, we can do it! 

Dig in and RSVP at http://treeday.planetark.org/site/54385. 

Carey Bay Wetlands 2005

Same spot 2010

Landcare Report - by Robyn Gill

About 7 years ago a group of cubs worked for a day at Carey Bay Wetlands next to their Scout Hall. With their Cub Leader and me (in my Landcare shirt for a photo for proof ) they weeded around a planting that had been done for  National Tree Day the previous year. This was the first of a series of plantings that has filled in where a great mass of Blackberry, Wild Rose and many other assorted serious weeds had taken over where a dairy farm had once been.

The cubs’ work for their Landcare Badge that day was part of a project encouraged by Suzanne Pritchard, in her science educator role, to create a natural zone along the bank of “our” creek (Puntei) within the Scout Hall land adjoining our work.

 
In 2012 one of those cubs, Lachlan Adams, decided on Landcare  as one of his Duke of Edinburgh Award projects and has completed 26 weeks of 1 hour sessions working with our group in Coal Point Reserves. He has been a willing and thoughtful worker so we have appreciated his help. Lach has now completed his online log with impressive detail of his sessions of Landcare work detailing the targeted weeds, plantings , who he worked with and some details of the reasons for the work. He has even worn out a pair of new gloves and we had to feed him Flakes so he would make it up the hill to home on his bike.

We’re hoping Lachlan will go on to the next level of the Award and choose Landcare as a project but with Year 11 for a high achiever and his other Award units (eg sailing) to fit in, we wish him well whatever his choice.

Wetland Wonderland Weeded

Three Endangered Ecological Communities at the Carey Bay Wetlands have received much-needed respite from weed invasion to celebrate World Wetlands Day 2013.

We’ll be continuing the celebration throughout February with landcaring at Carey Bay Wetlands happening every Thursday and on Saturday 23rd February 10am-1pm. 

We’re thrilled that the Wetlands have been the first site for bush regeneration work to commence under the Trust funded TSLS project

A dozen bush regenerators and landcarers over two days have already tackled some of the Privet, Lantana and Asparagus Fern whose seeds are often spread by birds. They also took on the garden escapes Buffalo grass and Morning Glory, which found their way in through dumped garden waste. 

The Trumpet Creeper, Campsis, was given special attention. It is the biggest threat to this Wetland, just when we think it’s gone it comes back even more than before. We’re hoping that by having professional bush regenerators to deal with it we can get rid of it once and for all.

Before the wetland weeding started the plants were surveyed so that the weeds could be targeted and their density diminished. 

We also surveyed the site for birds and found out that of all the bushland along the Coal Point peninsula the Carey Bay Wetlands has the greatest bird diversity, with 22 species being recorded, a third more than any other location along the peninsula.

What was even more special was that a Satin Bowerbird, with the an abundance of blue bits calls the Wetlands home and Yellow Thornbill was sighted in the area that has benefitted from 6 years of community plantings.

If you’d like to learn about the Wetlands, capture the beauty by camera and see various weed treatments demonstrated, the Saturday session on 23/2/13 will have professional bush regenerators on hand and morning tea provided.

Local Landcaring

For Coal Point landcarers May began with the Lake Macquarie Green Team assisting us at the West Ridge Reserve (off Whitelocke St) which gives us great pleasure and satisfaction (especially after we have managed to remove some Bitou and Asparagus Fern colonies ).
This area is specially blessed with a diversity of natives that have been lost from other reserves and it was a thrill to be told by the professional leader of the Green Team that she regards it as one of the top 5 in the Lake Mac. area. A neighbour to the reserve also mentioned that a botanist writing a report on their land commented on the quality of the vegetation.

At Gurranba the blitzing of Asparagus Fern is almost complete with consistent maintenance to follow as the red berries that had fallen spring up. The planting to replace the weeds is doing well and continuing.

Part of the planting at Gurranba has great hopes pinned on it as it follows from an interesting comment by one of the Dune Carers working at Pearl Beach recently that they notice that Mother of Millions doesn’t grow below Tuckeroos (Cupaniopsis). As we’re always hoping for a magic bullet to deal with these great survivors we’ve planted 16 Tuckeroos so far. They are attractive small to medium trees that thrive “in humid places near the sea or on windswept headlands”- which sums up Gurranba point very well.

Observers of Carey Bay Wetlands might notice some additional plump black plastic bundles. They are full of a large volume of Morning Glory and as they “cook” will provide safe mulch to continue filling in around and over the dumped concrete chunks that are scary to work among. Bundles from last December have been unwrapped and provided fill.

On June 7th we will be at Hampton St corner which adjoins the Pony Club area at the back of  “the” wetlands (with help from the Green Team).

Thursday May 31st will be at Gurranba (magic views and hopefully sunshine).
A bird in the Bush

by Robyn Gill : Landcare Coordinator

Landcare

Thanks to the Landcare Office, a Hunter Water grant has been gained to assist work at Gurranba Reserve because of the presence of Hunter Water infrastructure. The grant will provide for 1 Green Team day of LRO volunteers, 1 day of professional Bush Regenerators and $600 of plants, what a great end of year gift!

Landcaring with the locals and the Landcare Office volunteers will be at Stansfield Close reserves in December to wrap up the year.

The local Landcarers are already planning for next year the Carey Bay Wetlands getting the attention next February, to coincide with World Wetlands Day celebrations, a new sign is in the wind.

Landcare Legend, John Hughson, is moving onwards and upwards from Landcare Coordinator for the City to a new role in the recently restructured Asset Management team at LMCC. John's persistence, patience and big picture plans have embedded landcaring within the city as a way to protect and preserve our bushland assets. Sincerest thanks and well wishes go out to this local landcare champion, who had a vision for community stewardship of our bushland and made it happen, a huge achievement.

A Bonus for the International Year of Biodiversity

Five years ago a revegetation project started at Carey Bay Wetlands courtesy of an Envirofund grant.

The goal was to replace the extensive Blackberry Briar with a Swamp Mahogany -Paperbark forest as close as possible in make up to the remnant that was next to it.

This National Tree Day was a mini-momentous occasion which saw the final 180 trees planted. The Blackberry is all gone, there are a few other tenacious weeds still to tackle and of course there are the other layers of the system such as shrubs and ground covers yet to be planted, but all the trees are in.

The canopy is important to get growing, it helps shade out many of the weedy species, especially the grasses, it also allows any existing weed problems to be dealt with.

Over the past five years, 1000 or so trees have been planted on National Tree Day. Not all have survived, the rabbits are certainly healthy, but enough have grown to make a difference and provide much needed habitat, expand the remnant ecosystem and add local variety to the plants which are part of the wetlands of Carey Bay around Puntei Creek.

Protecting Biodiversity is more than the individual elements it is the sum of all the parts.

National Tree Day 2010

National Tree Day 2005

Locals Landcaring

Landcaring continues around the reserves with a keen and committed crew getting together every Thursday to learn a bit more about the local bushland, what has been growing and what needs knowing.

There is a focus reserve every month and once a month bush-regenerators from Lake Mac Landcare Network (LMLN)come out and lend a hand.

• In March the Carey Bay Wetlands will be the focus. 
• April is Gurranba’s turn on the foreshore( 8th LMLN)
• May the energy will turn to Burnage (6th LMLN) – the Excelsior Parade side aka Giant Reed area, 
• in June the joy will be shed at Threlkeld (3rd LMLN), 
• July sees Laycock St South get a go-(1st  LMLN) and
• in August the Stansfield Reserves will have some energy spent on them.

If you’re interested in finding out a little more about what is involved in local Landcaring give Robyn a ring 4959 1507.