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Landcare Okareka Working Bee Saturday 28th March

24/2/2015

Hi everyone

Thank you to all of those volunteers who came and helped last month.

THIS MONTH'S WORKING BEE - Saturday 28th March 2015
WHERE?: Lake Okareka Walkway
WHEN?: Meet at the Lake Okareka Walkway car park at 9am until 12 noon
WHAT?: Various tasks: dig out small seedling flaxes from within 5 m the boardwalk; checking for weeds in existing plantings (cut and paste); if time and person power permits, trim Taumaihi track; weed removal from high bank above Acacia Road.
WHAT TO BRING: Wear suitable clothing and foot wear, gardening gloves, sun hat & sunscreen (if hot and sunny); spade and secateurs or loppers. We will supply Roundup get paste for weeds. We will also supply morning tea for everyone. See you all on Saturday 28th March.

Kind regards

Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
Landcare Okareka

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Lakes Water Quality Symposium‏

22/2/2015

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Hi everyone

Please note the information about the Lakes WaterQuality Society symposium to take place on Thursday 12th March and Friday 13th March 2015.

Please contact the email address or go to the website mentioned below to find out further information and to register for this important event.

Lakes WaterQuality Society presents....

Rotorua Lakes Symposium 12-13 March 2015

Lake Weed and Wallabies - their role and control in the ecology of the Rotorua Lakes

Are you worried about lake weed in your lakes, rivers or dams? Is the forest in your catchments being damaged by animal pests? Are you aware that wallabies are slowly but steadily spreading across the central North Island, with animals seen from near Putaruru to Galatea, and from Tauranga to Orakei Korako and to the Wheao Dam? Then this symposium should interest you.

LakesWater Quality Society invites you to a symposium on Thursday 12 March and Friday 13 March 2015 in Rotorua. The symposium will have two themes: dealing with lake weed, and the problem of animal pests in forested lake catchments.

Papers will be based on the best New Zealand and international expertise. They will discuss dealing with lake weed – both practical and theoretical aspects. Special attention will be given to weed harvesting as a means of improving amenity and reducing nutrients at the same time.

The day on animal pests will focus on the Lake Okataina catchment as a case study. Sessions will deal with the effect of browsing animal pests on forests and lakes, and how to control them. The broadening threat of wallabies will receive special attention.

LWQS has successfully run eight symposia over the past fourteen years. In this symposium, as in the earlier ones, we will present the latest knowledge on sharply focussed issues. Our symposia bring together local government councillors and staff, interested members of the community, scientists and those with commercial interests.

We expect to have displays describing lake weed harvesters. The symposium will be preceded by a field day on Wednesday 11 March visiting Lakes Okataina and Rotoehu. The venue for the main symposium is the Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre (formerly the Convention Centre) in Fenton St Rotorua.

NIWA is associated with us in the symposium, and it is supported by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and the Rotorua District Council.

For inquiries please contact symposium@lakeswaterquality.co.nz The draft programme is available on http://lakeswaterquality.co.nz

I hope that you yourself or some of your people will be able to attend.

LWQS Secretary

Ann Green

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Walking Track Work Now On Thursdays

21/2/2015

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Thursday 26th February 2015 ( and each Thursday thereafter please, until advised otherwise)
Lake Okareka Walking Track Working Bee: from 4.30 - 5.00 pm at the DOC camp visitor car park, 226 Millar Road, Lake Okareka.

Please bring spade or grubber and wear covered footwear and gardening gloves. If you have access to a wheel barrow that could be useful....Bring a drink and a snack. We would appreciate what ever assistance we can get with this work...

For more information contact Sandra (07) 362 8865 or email sgoodwin@actrix.co.nz

There will also be a Walking Track Working Bee on Saturday 7th March 2015 from 9 am to 12 noon at the DOC camp visitor car park, 226 Millar Road, Lake Okareka.

Please bring spade or grubber and wear covered footwear and gardening gloves. If you have access to a wheel barrow that could be useful....Bring a drink and a snack. We would appreciate what ever assistance we can get with this work...

For more information contact Sandra (07) 362 8865 or email sgoodwin@actrix.co.nz

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Lake Okareka Walking Track Working Bees Now On Thursday

21/2/2015

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Dear Landcare Okareka volunteers

The mid week working bees on the Lake Okareka Walking Track will be changing to Thursday afternoons from this week.
Hopefully we can get more volunteers helping.

If you belong to a walking group or you know someone else who could be interested, could you please pass this message on. The more volunteers helping that we have the better.

Kind regards
Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
Landcare Okareka and Lake Okareka Walking Track Committee

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