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| New sign at Entrance to park provided by Waipa District Council |
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| Top car park weeding and landscaping |
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| New Public Toilet provided by Waipa District Council - what a difference! |
Tui 2000 Inc Logo
Thursday 10 November 2011
Working Bee Friends of Sanatorium Hill November 2011
Monday 31 October 2011
WORKING BEE NOVEMBER 5TH 9AM. SANATORIUM HILL
HI EVERYBODY
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE IS A WORKING BEE THIS SATURDAY AT 9AM. WE
WILL PLANT A FEW MORE FILLERS AT THE TOP CARPARK AND CONTINUE THE
FLAXES UP THE ROAD.
PLEASE BRING YOUR MORNING TEA AND WE WILL HAVE A SHORT MEETING ABOUT
THE COOLSTORE, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HEAR THEM.
WORK IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE THIS WEEK ON THE NEW CARPARK, THE OLD
TOILET BLOCK REMOVAL AND HOPEFULLY AT LONG LAST THE GRAVEL BASE AT
THE NEW TABLE.
SO SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AT THE TOP CARPARK.
REGARDS
DALE
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE IS A WORKING BEE THIS SATURDAY AT 9AM. WE
WILL PLANT A FEW MORE FILLERS AT THE TOP CARPARK AND CONTINUE THE
FLAXES UP THE ROAD.
PLEASE BRING YOUR MORNING TEA AND WE WILL HAVE A SHORT MEETING ABOUT
THE COOLSTORE, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HEAR THEM.
WORK IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE THIS WEEK ON THE NEW CARPARK, THE OLD
TOILET BLOCK REMOVAL AND HOPEFULLY AT LONG LAST THE GRAVEL BASE AT
THE NEW TABLE.
SO SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AT THE TOP CARPARK.
REGARDS
DALE
Barrett Bush Working Bee Sunday 6th November 2011
Hi Everyone,
Just a reminder that next Sunday the 6 November 2011 will be the next Barrett Bush Working Party. We will meet at 9.00 am at the end of Barrett Road and discuss our programme for the day.
Our tasks will be mainly routine maintenance clearing weeds and releasing plants where needed.Privet is a constant battle but the seasonal choking weeds, convolvulus and cleavers always need attention. Please bring spades, gloves and your morning tea.
Animal pests,possums and rats also need reduction. The new automatic possum trap will be checked as will John's new rat traps. Results will be looked to with interest.
If anybody has a spare piece of 150x50 mm, 1 metre in length we could repair the broken seat in the Central Area morning tea spot - before morning tea?
See you on Sunday, Warren
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Working Bee Waiwhakareke
Hi Friends of Waiwhakareke
Yes it's that time again. We need a really good turn out as there are quite a few plants to get into the ground and this will be the last session of planting for the year.
Working Bee
Date: Saturday 29 October 2011
Time: 9am-12midday
Meet on Baverstock Road entrance to the Park near the signage
Bring gumboots, spades, gloves and morning tea. We will be planting.
Any enquiries: Moira Cursey 07-846-5066
http://www.waiwhakareke.co.nz/
Moira Cursey
Waikato Biodiversity Forum Co-ordinator
31 Friesian Place
Hamilton
07 8465066
027 2223791
http://www.waikatobiodiversity.org.nz/
Yes it's that time again. We need a really good turn out as there are quite a few plants to get into the ground and this will be the last session of planting for the year.
Working Bee
Date: Saturday 29 October 2011
Time: 9am-12midday
Meet on Baverstock Road entrance to the Park near the signage
Bring gumboots, spades, gloves and morning tea. We will be planting.
Any enquiries: Moira Cursey 07-846-5066
http://www.waiwhakareke.co.nz/
Moira Cursey
Waikato Biodiversity Forum Co-ordinator
31 Friesian Place
Hamilton
07 8465066
027 2223791
http://www.waikatobiodiversity.org.nz/
Saturday 15 October 2011
If you would like to assist with the restoration and maintenance of a remnant of Kahikatea forest - then you are welcome to join a group of regular helpers at Barrett Bush, Barrett Road, south of Dinsdale. The group meet on site on the first Sunday of the month - except for January, at 9.00am and work till 12 noon. This group is affiliated to Tui 2000 Inc.
Please contact Warren at warrenstace37@clear.net.nz if you are interested.
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| Helpers discussing progress and morning tea time |
Please contact Warren at warrenstace37@clear.net.nz if you are interested.
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| DOC Reserve |
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| View of kahikatea remnant across adjacent farmland |
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| Removing privet from fenceline |
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| Removing fallen branches from fenceline |
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| Clearing weeds |
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| Success - x-privet hedge |
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| 3 year old cabbage trees |
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| Successful plantings |
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| Regenerating ferns |
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| Young kahikatea amongst plantings by volunteers |
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| Plenty of seeds on floor of bush |
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| Convolulus - a constant enemy |
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| Kahikatea bumper seeding 2011 |
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| Food everywhere |
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| Regenerating kahikatea self seeded |
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| Ferns re-establishing |
Magic Images from Sanatorium Hill
Update from Friends of Sanatorium Hill - Cambridge
The Friends of Sanatorium Hill are affiliated to Tui 2000 and have gained great support from the local residents, Cambridge businesses, Community groups and Waipa District Council. This site has so much history and so many facets to it - historical, recreational, environmental - it is well worth a visit, either to picnic, look at the views, take a bush walk.
A new toilet has been constructed at the Gudex Reserve. The cherry trees and the old garden of the Sanatorium are in flower and filled with birds. There will be tidying up working bee shortly - date to be announced. Celebrations are planned to celebrate the new track that DOC is planning/constructing. More planting is planned and there is always weeding to do! If you want to join in events at the reserve, email Tui 2000 Inc.
Sunday 5 June 2011
Warren at Waiwhakareke
http://hamilton.co.nz/file/fileid/33522
Extract Hamilton City Council news
A stalwart member of Tui 2000 Inc. Warren Stace explains his role submitting funding applications on behalf of the Waiwhakareke project to pay for the plants each year. Tui 2000 Inc. has made a commitment to attempt to raise $120,000 a year for plants - a massive undertaking for such a small group of committed environmentalists.
As a member of Tui 2000 and the ‘Waiwhakareke funding guy,’ Warren sits alongside Hamilton City Council staff and the representatives from Wintec, Friends of Waiwhakareke, University of Waikato and Hamilton Zoo that make up the project’s management group. The group meets monthly to keep plans on track for Waiwhakareke’s future.
Extract Hamilton City Council news
A stalwart member of Tui 2000 Inc. Warren Stace explains his role submitting funding applications on behalf of the Waiwhakareke project to pay for the plants each year. Tui 2000 Inc. has made a commitment to attempt to raise $120,000 a year for plants - a massive undertaking for such a small group of committed environmentalists.
As a member of Tui 2000 and the ‘Waiwhakareke funding guy,’ Warren sits alongside Hamilton City Council staff and the representatives from Wintec, Friends of Waiwhakareke, University of Waikato and Hamilton Zoo that make up the project’s management group. The group meets monthly to keep plans on track for Waiwhakareke’s future.
Friday 4 March 2011
Tui 2000 - Friends of Waiwhakareke
http://waiwhakareke.co.nz/
A 60 hectare wetland in the heart of Hamilton, Waiwhakareke is an award-winning natural heritage park and New Zealand’s largest inland restoration project.
A 60 hectare wetland in the heart of Hamilton, Waiwhakareke is an award-winning natural heritage park and New Zealand’s largest inland restoration project.
Whether you are an individual,a group, a school or a business - there are lots of ways you can polish your green halo and get involved at Waiwhakareke:
- Become a Friend of Waiwhakareke
- Volunteer your time for anything from an hour to a week or a day
- Take a school trip out to Waiwhakareke
- Organise a team building event at Waiwhakareke
- Make a donation, give a gift or sponsor something we desperately need
Tui 2000 - link to Environment Centre
http://envirocentre.5.powersite.co.nz/support_your_community/community_group_pages/tui_2000/
What are the aims of Tui 2000?
To bring about the return of nativebirds and their habitat of native plants and ecosystems to Hamilton and the central Waikato.
Why?
160 years ago the central Waikato was a landscape of lakes, rivers, bogsand swamps, interspersed with hills and ridges. The largest trees were kahikatea, pokaka and pukatea in the gullies and wetter areas, rimu, kauri and tawa on drier hill slopes and ridges.
The vegetation of the swamplands included flaxes, cabbage tree, raupo and sedges. Kiwi and weka roamed the forest and fernbirds, craiks and bitterns hid in the swamplands. Thousands of native waterfowl collected in the lakes and rivers. A few remnants of native forest can still be seen as Claudelands Bush, the bush remnants in Hillcrest Park, Mooney Park, Southwell School, some of the gullies, and along the Waikato River.
Remnants of the wetlands have almost totally disappeared except for small areas in the gullies and around Lake Waiwhakareke (Horseshoe Lake). The European colonization and settlement of the area brought about an almost total transformation of the landscape from native to exotic. Nowadays, native birds have almost vanished from the landscape.
Most of the birds that survive in this transformed landscape are introduced: blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, mynabirds, even the silvereye, which was self-introduced from Australia. Most of the native birds that remain are insect eaters or waterfowl: morepork along the river and greywarblers and fantails where there is bush; shags and pukeko by the river and lakes.
What are we wanting to do?
Members of Tui2000 do not want to turn back the clock. We recognize that natural New Zealand is as irrevocably changed as the cultural. Our vision is towards a New Zealand where the native and the exotic co-exist in greater harmony. We want a distinctively New Zealand nature, not onethat is a 'new Europe'.
We want to bring back a place for the natives, not banish them altogether.
Actions:
Activities that we have been involved in since its inception include:
1. Planting of native plants with schools and community groups,
2. Restoration of Barrett Bush Reserve southwest of Hamilton,
3. Promotion and support for the Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park,
4. Promotion and support for the restoration of Maungakawa Scenic Reserve/Sanatorium Hill northeast of Cambridge,
5. Promotion and support for Hamilton City's gully restoration programme
6. Submissions on annual plans, parks management plans and city plans.
7. We run an annual tour of Hamilton's gullies and wild places,
8. Put up displays at community events.
Contact or Join Tui 2000:
We meet on the 3rd Wednesday, once a month in the EnvironmentCentre, Ward Street from 7.00pm to 9pm.
Anyone is welcome to attend a meeting and we would welcome new members.
If you would like to speak to someone about Tui2000, contact DaleLethbridge, Ph: 856-9303; Warren Stace, Ph: 856-4486, Email:warrenstace37@clear.net.nz; or Katherine Hay at the Environment Centre,Ph; 07 839 4452, Fax 07 839 4454, Email: envirocentre@paradise.net.nz;
What are the aims of Tui 2000?
To bring about the return of nativebirds and their habitat of native plants and ecosystems to Hamilton and the central Waikato.
Why?
160 years ago the central Waikato was a landscape of lakes, rivers, bogsand swamps, interspersed with hills and ridges. The largest trees were kahikatea, pokaka and pukatea in the gullies and wetter areas, rimu, kauri and tawa on drier hill slopes and ridges.
The vegetation of the swamplands included flaxes, cabbage tree, raupo and sedges. Kiwi and weka roamed the forest and fernbirds, craiks and bitterns hid in the swamplands. Thousands of native waterfowl collected in the lakes and rivers. A few remnants of native forest can still be seen as Claudelands Bush, the bush remnants in Hillcrest Park, Mooney Park, Southwell School, some of the gullies, and along the Waikato River.
Remnants of the wetlands have almost totally disappeared except for small areas in the gullies and around Lake Waiwhakareke (Horseshoe Lake). The European colonization and settlement of the area brought about an almost total transformation of the landscape from native to exotic. Nowadays, native birds have almost vanished from the landscape.
Most of the birds that survive in this transformed landscape are introduced: blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, mynabirds, even the silvereye, which was self-introduced from Australia. Most of the native birds that remain are insect eaters or waterfowl: morepork along the river and greywarblers and fantails where there is bush; shags and pukeko by the river and lakes.
What are we wanting to do?
Members of Tui2000 do not want to turn back the clock. We recognize that natural New Zealand is as irrevocably changed as the cultural. Our vision is towards a New Zealand where the native and the exotic co-exist in greater harmony. We want a distinctively New Zealand nature, not onethat is a 'new Europe'.
We want to bring back a place for the natives, not banish them altogether.
Actions:
Activities that we have been involved in since its inception include:
1. Planting of native plants with schools and community groups,
2. Restoration of Barrett Bush Reserve southwest of Hamilton,
3. Promotion and support for the Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park,
4. Promotion and support for the restoration of Maungakawa Scenic Reserve/Sanatorium Hill northeast of Cambridge,
5. Promotion and support for Hamilton City's gully restoration programme
6. Submissions on annual plans, parks management plans and city plans.
7. We run an annual tour of Hamilton's gullies and wild places,
8. Put up displays at community events.
Contact or Join Tui 2000:
We meet on the 3rd Wednesday, once a month in the EnvironmentCentre, Ward Street from 7.00pm to 9pm.
Anyone is welcome to attend a meeting and we would welcome new members.
If you would like to speak to someone about Tui2000, contact DaleLethbridge, Ph: 856-9303; Warren Stace, Ph: 856-4486, Email:warrenstace37@clear.net.nz; or Katherine Hay at the Environment Centre,Ph; 07 839 4452, Fax 07 839 4454, Email: envirocentre@paradise.net.nz;
Project Halo Facebook link
http://www.facebook.com/hamiltonhalo?ref=ts&v=wall
Tui 2000 works actively with the EW and Project Halo
Tui 2000 works actively with the EW and Project Halo
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