Work Days - please come join us ...
Over the past six years, keen volunteers have undertaken a series of working bees clearing wilding conifers, sweet briar and broom from roadsides and other public land around Lake Ohau. Regular passersby comment favourably on the improved appearance of the cleared areas. Replanting has also been done over the last two years. Several hundred mountain beech seedlings have been established around the lake edges, along with kowhai, hoheria, hebes, Hall's totara,, corokia and snow tussock. These are thriving with minimal losses. They are to be substantially added to over the next two years, with plants grown from Ohau seed collected by the Department of Conservation's Motukarara Plant Nursery staff.
Trust workdays for 2011 are scheduled on the following dates: 9 January, 6 February, 20 March, 24 April, 15 May, 5 June, 25 September, 23 October and 13 November. All are Sunday mornings commencing at 10 am, locations to be advised. Other dates will be worked, sometimes at short notice, with visiting volunteer groups or if other opportunities occur. Anyone interested is very welcome to join us, even if you want to do no more than have a look at what we've been doing recently.
