Dear Members and Friends,
Come help us celebrate another year of our landcare good works with a number of working bee activities followed by lunch.
This Sunday we’ll be helping manage Ranters Gully. This is a small drainage line tributary that runs into Campbells Creek near Princess St. This area is of great interest to us as council will be constructing the missing link in our walking trail along here in the next 7 months.
Ranters Gully used to look very different, with lots of rubbish and a heavy infestation of weeds. Here’s an album of photos showing what it used to look like.
In 2009 we started transforming it, removing old car bodies and spraying weeds. In 2010, we turned most of them into woodchips!
We have a variety of options for you this Sunday so the choice is yours!
You can:
- Help deal with woody weeds that continue to re-infest Ranters Gully. These are mostly English broom and gorse. We’ll be cutting and herbicide painting the larger ones and hoeing out small ones.
- Learn about the issues involved in finalising the trail that our group initiated in 2001
- Learn how to identify and map weeds.
Meet here behind the houses on Princess Street, Campbells Creek closest to the creek for a 10:00 a.m. start.
There’s vehicular access to this place, but limited space, so please only drive in if you need to deliver something and park on Princess St.
Bring:
- A water bottle, sunscreen, hat, gloves, sturdy shoes and camping chairs for a sit down at lunch time.
- If you can, bring along long handled loppers, secateurs, pruning or bow saws, and/or mattocks.
- If you are interested in weed identification and mapping infestations, bring your mobile phone (it must be GPS equipped, but most are) and contact our environment officer Ian Higgins for instructions on installing and setting up the app.
After the working bee we would love you to help us celebrate another year of caring for our beloved creek.
We will be offering lunch and a chance to gather together.
For catering purposes, please RSVP to info@focc.org.au by Friday 1st December.
Hope to see you there!
warmly,
Friends of Campbells Creek |
