All interested members welcome to attend,
Tuesday 04 April 2006
Bairnsdale Bowls Club
Cnr Grant & Pearson St Bairnsdale
Dine: 6:30PM
Meeting: 7:30PM
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We shall depart from Metung at 08:30am in the Parks Vic boat and any private boat that members may be able to offer safe passage in.
FOGL members will complete the work commenced in 2005 on Boole Poole by clearing the remaining track section of sawn branches and undergrowth and erecting signs at either end of the track.
We shall work till 11:30, break for lunch, continue until completion (approx. 2:00pm), hava a well-earnt bbq, Joe Stephens may give us an up to date briefing on the reintroduction of native animals project ‘Burragarra’.
Opening this section will allow a loop walk. The name of the track will be Lune Beeuke Track (Lune Beeuke meaning ‘good water’ in the Ganai/Kurnai language). Lune Beeuke Track will eventually run from Jubilee Head Track in the west to McMahon’s Boundary Track in the east (approximately 14 km.)
The Friends of the Gippsland Lakes, Fishcare, Coastal Board and East Gippsland Shire Council have been invited to attend a Clean Up Australia Day event at the Silt Jetties on Sunday 5 March 2006. Click here for Clean Up Australia’s web page.
In addition to the great environmental outcomes this should be an energising inter-agency day with a recreational fishing (Fishcare) presence (given a lot of the rubbish is from anglers). It should also provide some excellent media coverage. There will be a BBQ and social afterwards. Stay tuned for more info or if you would like your group to be involved get in touch with Glen Forster, Coast Action/Coastcare Facilitator, Dept. Sustainability and Environment Ph: (03)5152 0439 Mob: 0408 357 343
Projects, Works & Grants subcommittee meeting
Tuesday 14 Februrary 2:00pm
DSE Offices 574 Main St. Bairnsdale
Agenda
Boole Poole native animal survey planning
Funding meeting to be organised
Bunga Arm walking track completion, Park Note & signage planning
SUMMER BY THE SEA IS OVER AFTER A RECORD SEASON
Coast Action/Coastcare’s “Summer by the Sea” has finished for another year, and what a year it was.
An historic meeting took place in Bairnsdale recently to discuss what actions could be undertaken to assist the ecological recovery of the Boole Poole Peninsula.
Members of the Friends of the Gippsland Lakes and Bairnsdale & District Field Naturalists Club and staff from Parks Victoria, DSE and East Gippsland CMA attended the meeting. A wide range of possible actions that could be undertaken to enhance and reinvigorate the coastal and forest ecosystems found on the peninsula were discussed.
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HELPING BIRDS DO THE RIGHT THING
Australia’s beloved native birds are unwittingly playing a lead role in the destruction of their own landscape – by helping to spread the green plague of invasive plants introduced by people.
But, after studying the problem closely, researchers in the CRC for Australian Weed Management Dr Carl Gosper and Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith, believe it is possible to help birds do the right thing – and assist in restoring native vegetation.