We had a great rollup
for our first working bee back at cockpit for a while. We started on C2
which is the area we first worked in and got it all whippersnipped,
trees weeded and lawn mowed.
Thankyou to all the helpers - Jimbo on his mower; Joel, George, Rosco
& Dick all on whippersnippers; Marg, Emily, Kath, Cass, Lily, Ben
& Lou who weeded & tidied up. The kids had a ball in the creek
as we worked - Brianna, Ada, Brandon, Ella.
It
is amazing but in the time period of 18 months or so since we worked in
Cockpit last; we have lost very few trees that we planted - I would
estimate only about 12 in total. Some trees planted are a worse for wear
from the cattle that have got in from time to time giving them a chomp
but they will struggle less how they are grass free and we will
fertilize them and give them more care and they soon improve again.
We are aiming for working bees every second Saturday 2-4.30pm. Helpers are always very welcome and we will give you a delicous afternoon tea to end off with before we go. Enquiries to Joel
Thankyou to Joel Christian who took over from me being President for such a long time and who has got everyone enthused again.
Heres some pics of today
Have a great weekend
Lou
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
Norfolk Landcare Group have been very disheartened by the Norfolk Island Governments lack of any environment focus and priority. We have considered closing down. We have decided instead to have a reshuffle and get a new President to drive us forward....
For the past two years we have held Toon Trust grant funding to replace the fence in the Ball Bay reserve. Following pressure from the graziers who were concerned that stock would be excluded from the reserve to the Minister Tim Sheridan; he and the Government made a decision to suspend the project pending new plans of management being done on all reserves. We successfully applied for 12 months extension as the plans of management were not complete. As they still werent done by the second year of holding funds; we had to apply for yet another extension but unfortunately we were knocked back and will have to return the funds to the Toon Trust. This is disappointing for us to say the least. Ball Bay Reserve is severely degraded and in need of urgent rehabilitation. It is truly a sad day for one of Norfolk's beautiful reserves.
