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Shoalhaven Shoalhaven PO Box 42, Nowra NSW, 2541 | 4429 3582 | [email protected] links PO Box 42, Nowra NSW, 2541 | 4429 3582 | [email protected] links spring edition 20132012 What’s Inside! Bushcare Field spring edition 2012 Oh What A Season 1.What’s Bushcare Field Officers Inside! – How They Help You? Officers 2. Community Biodiversity – Are We Getting It Right? –Well How what aThey season Help it has been! You? Firstly my apologies for the 1. – CaitlynOh What Rankin, a HonoursSeason! Thesis, UOW lateness of this latest edition of Bushcare Links but the past Councilfew months has have been been directly really busy.employing The increase three in Casualrainfall 3. Asparagus Fern Control Project, Narrawallee Oh What A Season What’s2. 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ShoalhavenClean Beach Council Awardto Trail “Banner” for Rennies at Coastal weatherinseed natural on patternsyour resource site having may management be been taking the dominateadvantage and bush feature of regeneration,this since change 2001. in of Council’s Foreshore Reserve’s Now that El Nino has taken a back seat and her sister La Nina VegetationBeach PoisoningBushcare site Group at Collingwood Beach havingweather worked and reproducing in the both on the mass. public Some and speciesprivate thatsector. may hashave come been into dormant effect inwe the are soil experiencing bank are suddenly a wetter germinating.period. 13.7. WeedBushcare Alert – Asparagus Support falcatus Trainers “Sicklethorn” Update All three share a passion for the Shoalhaven area, choosing 9. Crookhaven Heads Restoration ThisIf you means are a Bushcarethat species Group that that may has not put havein a lot set of flowereffort into or 14. Weed – Native Look a Like 8. CleanProject, Beach Culburra Award Beach for Rennies seedregenerating on your yoursite maysite/patch be taking this willadvantage be a time of of this great change bounty in 15. TheBeach NSW Environmental Bushcare Group Trust invites grant weatherand opportunity and reproducing for you. Thereon mass. will beSome a high species proportion that may of 10.applications Weed and to its native Restoration plant and look Rehabilitation a likes havenative been seed dormant and fruit in setting the soil and bank germinating are suddenly on yourgerminating. site. On 9. Crookhaven Heads Restoration Program Ifthe you other are handa Bushcare if you are Group a Bushcare that has Group put in whoa lot isof early effort in into the 11. Hot Bushcare Tunes regeneration process you may be getting a little disheartened 16. TicksProject, – Be alert Culburra not alarmed! Beach regenerating your site/patch this will be a time of great bounty andwith theopportunity prolific growth for you. and There germination will be ofa highweeds proportion on your site. of 17.10. Council Weed Says and “Thank native You plant look a likes nativeDon’t despairseed and as fruitone settingpositive and outcome germinating from the on prolific your site. growth On rate of weeds is that they are easier to kill. 18. Flooding Story - Basin Walking Track the other hand if you are a Bushcare Group who is early in the 11. Hot Bushcare Tunes regeneration process you may be getting a little disheartened 19. National Tree Day 2013 – Shoalhaven Heads with the prolific growth and germination of weeds on your site. 1 Bushcare Don’t despair as one positive outcome from the prolific growth Rebeccarate of weedsRudd - isCentral that they Shoalhaven are easier Bushcare to kill. Field Officer in action 1 to live a work here. They also have a passion for Bushcare, and the great work that Bushcare volunteers do in our City. Asparagus Fern The Mighty Marina All three want to see Bushcare grow and see Bushcare Groups as a conduit for communities to grow, meet, learn Control Project, and foster a stewardship for their local ecology. Bushcare Group – Culburra Beach The best way for Bushcare Groups to do this is to share Narrawallee the load, swap ideas and learn from others about how to – A Case Study The band of merry men and women who roam the adapt to the ever changing environment as your Bushcare beaches, lakes, foreshores and forests of Culburra Many Bushcare Groups will Beach creating regeneration and rejuvenation site slowly regenerates. One of the biggest killers of be very familiar with the volunteer organisations and individual volunteers is burn wherever they tread. They are otherwise known as the wide spread environmental Marina Bushcare Group. The name was taken from a out. When the majority of organisation/ or coordinating weed known as Asparagus falls on a minority it can soon overwhelm. lane that was laid out by planners, when the town was Fern. The scourge of the sub-divided, the lane runs in a mismatched sections Shoalhaven is the Ground Bushcare Field Officers can help prevent your Bushcare Cate Brooks, Bushcare Field Officer for Southern Shoalhaven at Tabourie. adjacent to the beach directly behind the fore-dune. Group and volunteers from “volunteer fatigue”. They can or Basket Asparagus Fern or Asparagus aethiopicus John, Les, Lynne and Wendy and all the volunteers have share the burden of carrying the weight of expectations of worked tirelessly on regenerating many sites across your Bushcare Group by helping you in the following ways: which has degraded many native vegetation Culburra Beach, including Ocean St beach access 1. Being the go to person on – site for seeking advice communities across the area, Lee St (near Lake Wollumboola), multiple dune and “what to do next” type of questions Shoalhaven. restoration sites including Mia Way, Sunshine St, The Bushcare Policy Update Bowery and The Mall. There latest project is taking on 2. Being the ID person for others in your group Council is currently reviewing the policy which guides Council’s There are other species of the restoration of Curleys Bay, adjacent to a proposed 3. Assisting with inquiries from residents and visitors Bushcare program, and would love your input and feedback Asparagus that have become BMX track. on the changes to the Bushcare Policy. Over the coming weeks established on the NSW Coast such as Bridal Vail Creeper, about your Bushcare site or work The before and after photos of the Lee St project below Council will be making contact with all Bushcare volunteers Climbing Asparagus and Cape Asparagus. As previous is some examples of the great work the Marina Bushcare 4. Helping the volunteers stick to your Bushcare plan seeking your input to the proposed changes. This will be done reported in Shoalhaven Bushcare Links the Asparagus Group have done and continue to do, hats off to you. 5. Facilitating group discussions and decision making via several mechanism including e-mail distribution, web species have been declared as a Weeds of National process based feedback and good old snail mail. Significance (WONS). 6. Being the conduit for getting assistance and advice There are a lot of changes to the Bushcare policy as the document As part of that process a Best Practise Management from Council is quite out of date with the changing face of volunteerism.