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May • OLGs Bushy Point, Otatara

Kowhai Reach Working Bee - Help Needed!

12 November 2024

10:30 am - 2:30 pm at Kowhai Reach

Contact: Please let Kathy Turnbull ([Enable JavaScript to view protected content], 03 236 0772) know if you can attend and what equipment or resources you can bring.

Together, let’s get Kowhai Reach ready for a fantastic opening day! ????

Celebration Prep for New Picnic/Outdoor Classroom - Community Volunteers Welcome!

Limehills students will be lending a hand, but we need parents and community volunteers as well. The more helpers, the quicker and easier the job!

Join us as we prepare Kowhai Reach for its upcoming opening celebration on the 26th of November! We need your help to set up signs and structures, clear the area, and make it look its best.

What’s Needed:

  • Equipment:
    • Tractor with a loader
    • Tractor with a post driver
    • Chainsaws for tree removal and cutting posts, fencing wood, and power poles
    • Trailers for transporting weeds and tree debris
  • Tools:
    • Gardening gloves
    • Gardening spades, forks, and trowels
    • Secateurs
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This rare totara forest system on sand dunes is easily explored following the mown paths throughout. The large totara here is estimated to be around 300 years old.

Oreti Totara Dune Forest

The wetland area is protected by a QEII National Trust Open Space Covenant.

Manuka Mire, Mokotua

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