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HiCUB: Woodlands Week

Added by editor, on September 19th, 2011

HiCUB has planned ten days of great school holiday activities from the 24th September to the 4th October.

Find out more about what is going on in your town in Woodlands Week by visiting the HiCUB calendar. More information will be released in the InTune magazine, and the Armidale Independent.

The series of events (see below) aims to raise awareness of woodlands, their flora and fauna, the threats they face and management options. I would like to invite your participation in this week. There are a number of opportunities for your participation:

  • Attendance at any or all of the activities (with your family as it is in school holidays),
  • Static displays at outdoor events (particularly Apex Lookout 24/9; Uralla 30/9; and Armidale Tree Group 1/10),
  • Small indoor display at Uralla or ATG Woodland Centre,
  • Guest speaker at the Tree Group’s event on 1st October,
  • Listing additional events (seminars, displays etc) under the Woodland Week banner.
  • Sponsorship (to help with advertising costs).

The events planned to date (with the main organising group) are:

  • Sept 24th – Wildflower walk, woodlands display and launch of Woodlands Week at Apex Lookout, Armidale (Kate Boyd, ATG)
  • Sept 25th – Evening spotlighting around Snow Gums Bushland Reserve, Armidale with Phil Spark (HiCUB),
  • Sept 25th – Regular bush regeneration working bee at Mt Mutton in Uralla (Chris Whackett, HiCUB)
  • Sept 26th – Wildflower walk at Ben Lomond railway cutting (afternoon) and evening spotlighting at ‘The Brothers’, Ben Lomond with Phil Spark (Beth White, Ben Lomond Landcare Group),
  • Sept 29th – Woodland walk in Walcha town common with Lachlan Copeland (ELA) and Phil Spark (HiCUB),
  • Sept 30th – Nest box construction workshop, barbecue and evening spotlighting in Mt Mutton, Uralla (Stephanie McCaffrey, Uralla Shire Council),
  • Oct 1st – Armidale Tree Group Grassy Woodland Restoration field day – guest speakers, inspect grassland trials, direct seeding, community wildflower planting, barbecue at Mike O’Keeffe Woodland (Dan Davies, ATG),
  • Oct 2nd – UNE Landcare bush regeneration working bee, Robb College remnant. (Ellen Nyberg, UNE Landcare),
  • Oct 2nd – Snow Gums Reserve, Armidale. Bush regeneration working bee (Kate Boyd, ATG).
  • Oct 4th – Public launch of the Apsley River and Walcha Woodlands project followed by community planting, Apsley River – Walcha (Brenda Shepherd, HiCUB)

We have enlisted the support of the following sponsors/funders for the event so far: Australian Government Caring for Our Country; NSW Environmental Trusts; Northern Rivers CMA; Border Rivers Gwydir CMA.

Feel free to forward this to colleagues and friends who may be interested.

If you would like to join us in this week of celebrating woodlands, please contact Brenda Shepherd (brenda@snelcc.org.au) or myself.

All the best, David Carr

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