2024 SERN Spring Field Trip - Hear the vision and help make it happen
SERN Field Trip – Along the Mataura: Hear the vision and help it happen
9am depart Feldwick Gates Queens Park, return 5pm
10.00am: Visit O’Neill’s A QEII, near Fortrose for a walk around this wetland forest and the recent restoration area alongside it. Commentary from Environment Southland who are managing the long-term ecological restoration of the land in this floodplain near the coast. Hear about other active management of ES managed sites further up the catchment as the bus meanders alongside the Mataura River to Gore.
12.00pm: Lunch at Hamilton Park, Gore followed by some plant releasing at the Gore Native Forest Restoration site. Hear about the restoration of this former landfill site from Keith McRobie (Gore DC). Don and Margaret Lamont initiated this project about 20 years ago.
2.40pm: Pukerau Nursery and Red Tussock Scientific Reserve James & Maree Holloway specialise in supplying ecosourced plants for restoration projects in the south and discuss what this involves along with a tour of the nursery. On the return to Invercargill there is a chance to hear more about the conservation of the DOC Red Tussock Scientific Reserve from Brian Rance.
Please bring your own lunch and beverages. Toilet stops available (Edendale & Gore) All welcome! Bus: free but booking essential.
RSVP for queries, map of route and to book a seat to Gay Munro ([Enable JavaScript to view protected content])
Thank you to Environment Southland for generously funding the bus
