Emu Park Community Bushcare Group

Fesitval of the Winds

jweekers — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:44:58 +0000

Bushcare will have a stall at the Emu Park Festival of the winds on April 7th 2013. Come down and say hello and pickup a free plant!

Activities for 2013

jweekers — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:43:06 +0000

Get involved – Activities for 2013 will be on each month from April to November. Generally a late afternoon on Saturday or early Sunday morning – a few hours of helping the local environment is rewarding and fun. Contact us to join our mailing list to get details of events as they come up.

Planting Success

jweekers — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:16:08 +0000

2 Planting days in April along the bike path on Marine Parade at Tanby Point Emu Park have got off to a great start with good rain to settle the seedings in. These areas, which were badly disturbed when the path was created, will be the focus of many activities in 2012 and are part of long term plans for the area. We will be looking to spread from pockets of good vegetation out into the weedy area that make up a bulk of the dune area along Marine Parade. This project is part of a long term strategy to link and extend areas of rare remnant bush scrub along the Fisherman’s beach foreshore and aligns with the groups work in beach scrub further down near Lions Park. Predominant weeds in the area are Guinea grass and Green Panic, along with Lantana, Sunflowers, Painted spurge, Seratro and other miscellaneous invaders.

Plantings aim to suppress weed prevalence by replacing them with native vegetation that will shade out and eventually out-compete most of the weeds. These include plants such as the Cottonwood tree, Goats foot creeper, various local small tree species such as Tuckeroo and Sandpaper fig and native grasses such as Love Grass.

In this work we would like to acknowledge the support of RRC, FBA and FRCC.

Please contact us for more information, or if you’d like to participate in this project.

Community planting days – April 2012

jweekers — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:52:46 +0000

Emu Park Community Bushcare group will be hosting 2 community planting days in April.

When 14th April 3-5pm and 29th April 9-11am

Where: Marine Parade Bike Path – Tanby Point Emu Park

Bring: Hat, closed in shoes, gloves, small trowel if you have one, water

Project: Planting native plants along a section of the bike path. Part of our long term plans for revegetation and weed control in the fishermans beach dunes.

Come and learn about plants of the area and contribute to the project.

Wetland Day 2012!

jweekers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:11:32 +0000

Celbrating the value of our wetlands.

WHEN: Sunday 25 March, 2012, 9am to 1pm

WHERE: Bicentennial Lagoon, Emu Park (opposite Bell Park – look for signs)

WHAT: Learn more about why wetlands are special places. Native plants giveaways and info FREE sausage sizzle FREE bus tours to nearby Kinka wetland, see a fish passage, try bird watching

Activities for 2012

jweekers — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:52:42 +0000

Get involved – Activities for 2012 will be on the 3rd Saturday of each month from April to November. Generally a late afternoon (for the cool) – a few hours of helping the local environment is rewarding and fun. Join our mailing list to get details of events as they come up.

Join us for Wetland Day 2012 at the Lagoon!

andocobo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:43:00 +0000

Celebrate Wetlands Day 2012 on Sunday 25 March at Bicentennial Lagoon in Emu Park, with a great family day including displays, native plant giveaways, free sausage sizzle, tours to nearby Kinka Wetland (where you can try bird watching!) and fun activities for kids like face painting, colouring competition and wetland bug ID. The day runs from 9am to 1pm.

WHEN:

Sunday 25 March, 2012, 9am to 1pm

WHERE:

Bicentennial Lagoon, Emu Park (opposite Bell Park – look for signs)

WHAT:

Learn more about why wetlands are special places
See the FBA scale model of the Fitzroy Basin catchment
DPI fish display
Native plants giveaways and info
FREE sausage sizzle
FREE bus tours to nearby Kinka wetland, see a fish passage, try bird watching

Activities for kids like:

colouring-in
face painting
wetland bug ID

Group gets award

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:09:38 +0000

The Emu Park Community Bushcare group has recently received an award from the Capricorn Pest Managment group for our work against weeds in the area. Accepting the award in the community group category is Cliff Bunn (centre). It was the on-going work of Cliff and other volunteer’s in the Cocoanut National Park that particularly impressed the CPMG group.

The Capricorn Pest Managemnet Group was formed in 1999 to establish a coordinate approach to weed and pest animal management in the Capricorn region. Major stakeholders are the Local Government authorities, Qld Gov agencies, Landcare, Industy and Primary producer groups.

Emu Park Community Bushcare became involved with the CPMG when they organised the 2009 Qld Week Symposium at Capricorn Resort July 2009. A local tour included the Cocoanut National park, dicussing rehabilitation work there and lunch at Bell Park where the Bringing back the beach scrub work was highlighted.

EPCBG were presented the award at a dinner on November 18, where Cliff Bunn spoke about the group’s work and on-going committment to weed management in the area.

Marine Parade Project

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:27:28 +0000

Bushcare are working with the council at Tanby Point to improve the dune area along Marine Parade. Areas cleared for the new bike path have been mulched and tree planting will occur in 2011. The Northern end of dune area, will be slashed and grass regrowth poisoned. Revegetation will then occur in this area also.

The dune area along Marine Parade is heavily infested with a number of weed species and in dire need of assistance. It is hoped that the efforts of the Council along with Bushcare and the local community can go some way to begin the resurrection of this important natural zone and habitat.

Some weeds that will be targeted include grasses such as guinea grass and green panic, Japanese sliver leaf sunflower, lantana, dark nightshade and painted spurge.

Free Weed Workshop

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:11:51 +0000

Come and learn about beach scrub and why it’s gaining recognition as a must have on the Capricorn Coast, and the local weeds that threaten our great outdoors.

This free workshop is being held on Saturday, 26 June 2010 at Mulambin Beach (Emily Morgan Park on the Scenic Highway).

Starting at 8:30am, the day will include sessions on weed I.D, beach scrub health, dune revegetation, and a weed pull. Join us in discussions about environmental hotspots whilst talking to the locals who are continually striving to improve our area.

Light refreshments & lunch provided. Bring Hat, Gloves and Water bottle.

For more information please see the attached flyer or phone Pam Malyszek 49237543.