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TIMM‘S POSSUM TRAPS - DECEMBER 2015

20/12/2015

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Are you noticing leaves on garden or vegetable plants that appear to have been chewed? What about new leaves on roses? Or are you hearing possum fighting noises at night?

These pests will be active again around the Lake Okareka settlement. We have some Timm's Possum Traps available to help you catch and kill these pests. These Bay of Plenty Regional Council funded Timm's possum traps, are available on loan to any Lake Okareka residents, if you contact Sandra and Mike Goodwin 362 8865.

The Lake Okareka community has ten traps which were funded as ―loan traps by Bay of Plenty Regional Council. These traps have been borrowed at various times by members of the community. If you are having possum problems – maybe eating fruit or flowers or they are making a nuisance of themselves at night – and you would like to borrow a Timm's trap, give us a call.

If you are not familiar to the ―Timm's trap‖, we will provide you with some instructions about how to use the traps. We will also give you some advice about what seems to work best as bait - such as apple with cinnamon, or apple and peanut butter. If you can keep a note of any possums caught please pass that on to us when you return the trap. We like to know for our records what is being caught around the place and we can also pass that on to the Regional Council. 

For more information or to borrow a trap, please contact Mike & Sandra Goodwin, phone 3628 865 or email [email protected].
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LAKE OKAREKA HORNWORT SITUATION IMPROVING?

20/12/2015

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completed during the week 9th – 13th November. Conditions for the monitoring were calm with good visibility in the lake. Three areas of the lake were checked with focus given to Acacia Bay boat ramp, the weed cordon and Boyes Beach. These areas were originally where the main hornwort infestations were located. For this monitoring round, no hornwort plants or fragments were found. As no hornwort was evident and there was no growth of the oxygen aquatic weeds Lagarosiphon major and Egeria densa in the weed cordon area, no aquatic weed spraying is planned for Lake Ōkāreka this year.

Further monitoring of Lake Ōkāreka is planned for April 2016. Budget allocated by LINZ for the control of aquatic pest plants has been put aside, should any infestations become apparent and require control.

Native aquatic plants have been steadily self-regenerating in areas of the lake previously treated with herbicide to remove pest plants. The native plants appear to be growing from seeds that were dormant in the lake. Their regeneration is having a positive effect on aquatic pest plant control by limiting pest plants from re-establishing.

Help keep hornwort and other aquatic pests out of the lake: always check your trailer and anchor well and chain for any aquatic plant fragments before you enter the lake and when you exit. Remove any plant fragments that you pull up with your anchor and chain straight away or at the boat ramp before you head home. Find out more about aquatic pests and Bay of Plenty Regional Council‘s work to manage them at www.boprc.govt.nz/aquaticpests.

Hamish Lass, Land Management Officer - Biosecurity (Terrestrial and Aquatic pests)
Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Rotorua, New Zealand
Phone: 0800 884 881 x7580
Web: www.boprc.govt.nz
​Email: [email protected]
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Two Working Bees on Lake Okareka Walking Track

2/12/2015

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Hi everyone
 
First of all thank you to those volunteers who came to the Working Bee last Wednesday evening.

There will be another mid week, after work Lake Okareka Walking Track Working Bee this week. Work will again be from the DOC camp end so please park in the public car park area (not the camping sites!) of the DOC camp located at 226 Millar Road, follow the narrow sealed road into the camp and go straight ahead to the public car parking area, rather than around to the right.

WHEN: Wednesday 2nd December 2015 from 4.30 / 5.00 pm till around 6.00 - 6.30 pm
 
The second Track Working Bee is Saturday 5th December 2015 - from around 9 am to 12 noon - once again park in the car park at the DOC camp, 226 Millar Road.
 
For both Working Bees:
Wear suitable clothing, footwear & gardening gloves. Please bring a spade or shovel and a wheel barrow, if you have one. A rake would also be useful. The activity is shifting dirt "from humps to hollows". Bring some water and a snack, if you need one.

If no one is about at the car park please go up the track past the camp toilet block at the far end of the camp and follow the track to the jumping off rock, (quite a bit further on from the big log across the track) until you see where the new track turns off to the right and follow the new track until you find Brian Law and / or Mike Goodwin. Everyone is very welcome.

Kind regards,


Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
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