Forest and Bird Southland Trip to Home Creek
Home Creek just south of Manapouri has been an annual field trip for Forest and Bird for many years. Home Creek is the property of the Waiau Trust and over the last ten years has changed from an area dominated by exotic grasses to one showing much natural character, thanks to the effort of Edith Jones and her many helpers. Join Forest and Bird on their annual trip to the area, leaving Southland Museum at 9.30am or meeting at the Home Creek car park, turn off just south of Manapouri, at 11.00am. Lunch will be at the Balloon Loop where Edith will explain about the weed issue there of cotoneaster. After lunch we will head to the DOC Wilderness Reserve, the area of bog pine on the main road out of Te Anau, where heather and wilding pines are a problem. A working bee here will scan the area for either of these weed species and control undertaken. For further information, please contact Edith Jones, [Enable JavaScript to view protected content].
