Le Roys Bush & Little Shoal Bay Reserves - May 2009 newsletter - planting days; wattle project

[KW Salmon]

Hi All

Le Roys Bush & Little Shoal Bay Reserves - May 2009 newsletter

Welcome to another newsletter to keep you abreast of what is going on in the Le Roys Bush and Little Shoal Bay reserves.

(1) Planting days in May 2009

We are pleased to invite you and your friends and family to take part in the planting days that we have on the go:

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Saturday 16 May - 9.30 to 11.30 am - planting/clearing on the edge of the wetland -

Where: access via 60 Maritime Tce
Bring: Secateurs, gloves, your favourite spade

Saturday 23 May - 9.30 to 11.30 am - Upper Wetland Restoration - Planting Day

Where: Meet at bridge at the bottom of the track from Le Roy Terrace
Bring: Gumboots and gloves, your favourite spade

For further details see: http://groups.google.com/group/LeRoys-Bush-and-Little-Shoal-Bay/web/coming-events-2  or phone Keith 021 240 9414 or 480 9233 (evenings)

At the 23 May event we will be planting 400 wetland plants in the upper wetland where the tracks from Onewa Road and Le Roy Terrace meet.  Up till now this site has been overgrown with kikuyu, queen of the night, ginger and other weeds.  The aim is to restore native plants at the head of the wetland as the first step in native plant restoration which will follow progressivley through the rest of the wetland as weeds are cleared. Thanks to the NSCC and the ARC for their support and to the Birkenhead Primary Wai Care group who will be doing some planting on the previous day.

(2) Wattle campaign around Little Shoal Bay

Another of our 2009 projects involves working with local residents in Maritime Terrace and Hinemoa Street to clear wattles and acmenas in private property around the lower LSB wetland. 

You may have noticed a lot of wattle seedlings springing up in and around the wetland.  They look fresh and innocent when they are young - but they risk taking over the wetland - just as the willows and pampas did before them. 

Thanks to an EIF grant from the Auckland Regional Council, we can hire a specialist to drill and inject the wattles as well as a number of monkey apples. We have also funding to provide free native plants to fill the gaps where the wattles and acmena were - this will help keep new weeds at bay.

Thanks very much to all those Maritime Tce and Hinemoa St residents who have been so helpful in working with Adrian to clear this problem. 
 
(3) Other activities coming up

See our website for other upcoming events and projects:

• Saturday 20 June - 9.30 to 11.30 am - East of Highbury Planting Day
  
  
• Saturday 11 July - 9.30 to 11.30 am - Onewa Road Entrance Planting Day
  
  
• Further pest plant control in the Little Shoal Bay wetland
  (honeysuckle, tree privet, wattles, queen of the night,  blue morning glory, arum lilies, loquats, kahili ginger, acmena (monkey apple), phoenix palms, climbing asparagus)
  
  
• Native fish monitoring in the Le Roys Bush stream and LSB wetland
  
  
• Interpretive signs to be erected in LSB about the natural environment and protecting native plants, fish and other wildlife

 
Many thanks, Keith Salmon

For the Le Roys Bush and Little Shoal Bay Management Committee


See Welcome to the LeRoys Bush and Little Shoal Bay website

Our thanks to:
The Birkenhead-Northcote Community Board of the North Shore City Council, 
The Coastal Enhancement Fund and Environmental Initiative Fund of the ARC,
The Birkenhead Licensing Trust/Lion Foundation.

If you cannot read this newsletter, please see web copy at: http://groups.google.com/group/LeRoys-Bush-and-Little-Shoal-Bay/web/documents-about-le-roys-lsb
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