Today is our second day to complete our scheduled revegetation project at Lake St. Clair: melaleuca lanceolata and sheok (allocasuarina verticillata) seedlings.
young volunteers
Today with planted our own year-old seedlings at Lake St. Clair: melaleuca lanceolata and sheok (allocasuarina verticillata) seedlings.
Beach clean-up today! A big shout-out to these two regular teen volunteers, Andrew and Massimo, that with their infinite energy have carried the heaviest of debrids we found on these beautiful back beaches.
What a fun day today at FOLD! We welcomed Emma, our new local ranger, by meeting up earlier at the Adventurous Spoon. We then met the rest of the volunteers, as usual by the nursery at 3 pm, and headed out to Back Beach for a cleanup. We had such a good turnout today (14 people + 2 rangers) that we divided into two groups thus covering lots of ground.
Threatened Hooded Plovers nest regularly on West Beach! How many did know that? They nest as well on some of our back beaches and on Long beach. Since West Beach is also hazardous to drive on, does not have a through access, and is a favorite walking destination for many locals, by blocking vehicle access here we give these little birds a better change to survive.
What a day at the nursery! Such a lovely group of passionate volunteers have work hard today preparing the trays and planting seeds we had previously collected. Lots has been accomplished today and we all went home feeling good about the day!
Tumbs up to this unstoppable 10 year old who has been coming to volunteer for FOLD most Sundays! Good job, Rinaldo! Keep up the good work, boyo!
Today we picked up trash and mini plastic bits from the end of West Beach to Stoneys.
Today we checked plants at Stoneys and Long Gully campgrounds. We were also able to replace plants and guards that have been lost.
Today we walked and picked up trash from Stonies to West Beach. We also indentified middens and John shared some of his knowledge about middens with us.
For more information: https://www.aboriginalheritage.tas.gov.au/cultural-heritage/aboriginal-shell-middens
Ten happy volunteers showed up today! A full force to tackle the back beaches under a warm sun for a succesful cleanup sesh! We also fixed one of the posts.