Kereru is a weekly NZ e-mail for all community participants and organisations about ecological restoration. Help bring back our natives. Kereru is available at
http://www.bush.org.nz/kereru/ Tuesday, 15th October 2007 Welcome to Kereru. CONTENTS
1. NZERN News
2. Calendar
3. Noticeboard
4. How to contact NZERN
1. NZERN NEWS
Office Hours
The Office will be closed from Saturday October 13 till Wednesday October 24. The office will reopen at 9am on Thursday October 25.
Kereru
There will be no Kereru sent next week. All back isues of Kereru since 1998 can now be seen on-line at http://www.bush.org.nz/kereru/ Forums
There are two public viewable forums at http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/
Use the General Restoration Forum to talk about your restoration project and whats going on. Use the Pipi User Forum to get assistance with using Pipi, report bugs and request new features. NZERN Members login
All members are welcome to login to the members only website and have a look around. To recover your passwords, enter your email address at http://www.bush.org.nz/support/forgotpassword.html to get a password emailed to you. Then login at http://www.bush.org.nz/support/login.html When you login, you will get 25 minutes before your session times out. If that happens, just login again and carry on. At the moment, you can change your password, update some of the information about your self, subscribe and unsubscribe from the forums, and look at the forums. People who have a professional edition will be able to add messages to the forums. People with a standard edition can look but still can't add messages. I'm sorry but I just ran out of time getting it finished before going on hoilday to Stewart Island for 10 days. Nothing is going to keep me away from that bit of paradise. When I get back on the 24th, I'll finish it off so you can all use the forums. Many other hidden features will then follow thick and fast. Testers needed
We need some keen members who would like to be the first to try out the new features and help decide how they should be finished to make them easy to use. You need to be prepared to login, try stuff out and give clear written feedback. Cheers
Mike
2. CALENDAR
(This is a partial listing while the events database is currently being updated)
more calendar at
http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/calendar.html This week Monday 15 October 2007 Auckland
Friends of Oakley (Te Auaunga) Creek Meeting
3rd Monday.
7.30pm. Akarana Dog Obedience Society Club Rooms, Phyllis Reserve, Springleigh Avenue, Mt Albert.
Contact: info@oakleycreek.org.nz
Tuesday 16 October 2007
Canterbury
Summit Rd Society - Ohinetahi Work Party
Tuesdays.
9am - 3pm. Maintain Society Reserve above Governors Bay
Contact: Mike White Ph 03 312 1551
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Auckland
Tahuna Torea Reserve Park Care
Wednesday.
Volunteers required for park care tasks including releasing [weeding] and tree planting. End of West Tamaki Road, Glendowie. 9.30am.
Contact: Ph. David Bowden, Parks Volunteer Coordinator on 09 3792020
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Waikato
Waikato Ornithological Society Meeting
3rd Wednesday.
7.30pm, DoC Area Office, 5 Northway St (off Te Rapa Rd), Hamilton City.
Contact: Martin Day (07) 827-3047
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Wednesdays.
10am - 3.30pm. Tools & lunch provided
Contact: Morgan Cox, phone 383 9987, or Sally Bowman, phone 934 7041
Wednesday 17 October 2007
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday.
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Contact: Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 18 October 2007
Wellington
Kaitawa Reserve Working Party
Thursday.
8.30am - noon at Riwai Street for planting and release work.
Contact: John Mclauchlan 04-904-0027, Judy Petterson grandjudy@paradise.net.nz
Thursday 18 October 2007
Wellington
Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust
Thursday.
Workbee. Meet: 8.30am Information Centre / Te Marae o Tane, 160 Wilton Road, Wilton.
Contact: Ph: Jonathan Kennett or Bronwen Wall 472 5891, e-mail: jonathan@kennett.co.nz
Friday 19 October 2007
Southland
Southland Community Nursery Work Day
Fridays.
Propagate your own native plants for free. Open Fridays, phone the evening before
Contact: Chris Rance (03) 213-1161 or email rances@ihug.co.nz http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rances/
Friday 19 October 2007
Waikato
Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club
Fridays.
7 - 8.30 pm down at the Gardens in the Wintec Horticultural Centre.
Contact: Dave Matthews (07) 846-4013 (home) or (07) 850-8458 (work)
Saturday 20 October 2007
Auckland
Ark in the Park
3rd Saturday.
Meet: Cascades Rangers' workshop behind the Rangers' house, Cascades Kauri Park
Contact: John Sumich 818 5267 cjnk@xtra.co.nz or Karen Colgan 837 0443 mcolgan@netaccess.co.nz
Saturday 20 October 2007
Canterbury
Lake Alexandrina Conservation Trust Working Bee
3rd Saturday.
9.30am Lake Alexandrina outlet. There is plenty of work to do to improve the lake surrounds by clearing briar and wilding pines, so come along and bring your friends, leather gloves, lopping shears or secateurs and sensible shoes. These days are always great fun, so see you there!
Outlet
Contact: Mary Wallace
Saturday 20 October 2007
Canterbury
Travis Wetland Trust Working Party
3rd Saturday.
Time: 9am - 12 noon Place: Meet at the Travis Wetland Educaton Centre, end of Beach Road. The workdays are an opportunity to learn about wetland ecology and restoration. Stay as long as you wish. Gumboots are recommended.
Contact: Joe Greenaway (03) 383 2073
Saturday 20 October 2007
Waikato
Jubilee Bush Care Group
3rd Saturday.
9am. Weedbusting tradescantia and ongoing maintenance. Bring a rake, stout footwear, gardening gloves, and stay for a barbecue and juice afterwards.
Contact: Katherine at the Environment Centre (07) 839-4452
Saturday 20 October 2007
Wellington
Southern Environmental Association
Saturdays.
2 - 6pm. Workbee for SEA forest / coastal restoration project. Potting up, weeding and planting. Meet at the SEA native plant nursery, Lower Murchison Street, Island Bay, Wellington. (on the western side of the park, accessed by entering the park opposite 21 Murchison Street). All help is welcomed, even for a short time. Tools and afternoon tea provided
Contact: June Epsom (04) 384 5175
Sunday 21 October 2007
Canterbury
Addington Bush Working Party
(Normally 3rd Sunday).
Planting and maintenance of native bush areas. Wear old clothes and bring gloves. Tools supplied. Ring first.
10am
Contact: Mike Peters (03) 338 5451
Sunday 21 October 2007
Canterbury
Clarevale Reserve Working Party
Sundays.
1 - 4pm, Clarevale Reserve, Travis Country Drive. Native Habitats restoring and caring for a corner of Travis Wetland in association with a study of the re-establishment of kahikatea forest. Please bring gumboots, work clothes and gloves if you have them. Other tools provided.
Contact: Contact Dave Evans beforehand as times and days are flexible and may vary. ph 366 0628, dave.evans@alliedtelesyn.co.nz
Sunday 21 October 2007
Marlborough
Marlborough OSNZ - Lake Grassmere Count
3rd Sunday.
Contact: Mike Bell (03) 577-9818
Sunday 21 October 2007
Wellington
Common Ground
Sundays.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Ground clearance, gorse cutting, seaweed collection, building compost heaps and plots, composting, pruning. BYO tools. All welcome, rain or shine. Meet at Home of Compassion, Island Bay, behind Aubert Childcare Centre.
Contact: Donna Byrne donna.byrne@paradise.net.nz
and next week ...
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Canterbury
Summit Rd Society - Ohinetahi Work Party
Tuesdays.
9am - 3pm. Maintain Society Reserve above Governors Bay
Contact: Mike White Ph 03 312 1551
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Canterbury
Travis Wetland Trust Meeting
Tuesday after Third Saturday..
Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm. Place: Travis Wetland Education Centre, Beach Road.
Contact: Denise Ford (03) 981-3805
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Manawatu - Wanganui
Wanganui Ornithological Society Meeting
4th Tuesday.
Evening. Davis Lecture Theatre, Wanganui Regional Museum, Watt St.
Contact: Tom Teasdale (06) 343-9992
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Wellington
Tawa Bush Reserves - Working Bee
4th Tuesday.
1.30pm. Improve public access tracks in Redwood Bush, tree planting, weeding around planted trees, pest plant removal. For updates on latest planned activities please see www.tawabush.wellington.net.nz
Contact: Norm Robertson 04-232 6359
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Canterbury
Travis Wetland Trust - AGM
Once a year.
Travis Wetland Education Centre.
Travis Wetland Trust are holding their AGM at the Beach Road Education Centre, 7pm. Speaker topic is The Waters of Travis.
Contact: Eric Banks 332-0111 (Evening)
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Auckland
Tahuna Torea Reserve Park Care
Wednesday.
Volunteers required for park care tasks including releasing [weeding] and tree planting. End of West Tamaki Road, Glendowie. 9.30am.
Contact: Ph. David Bowden, Parks Volunteer Coordinator on 09 3792020
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Wellington
Manawa Karioi Working Bee
Wednesdays.
10am - 3.30pm. Tools & lunch provided
Contact: Morgan Cox, phone 383 9987, or Sally Bowman, phone 934 7041
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Wellington
Wellington Home Nursery
Wednesday.
Nursery potting up and seed propagation. Evening session 7.30pm till 9.30pm
Contact: Gary James (04) 938-6751
Thursday 25 October 2007
Wellington
Kaitawa Reserve Working Party
Thursday.
8.30am - noon at Riwai Street for planting and release work.
Contact: John Mclauchlan 04-904-0027, Judy Petterson grandjudy@paradise.net.nz
Thursday 25 October 2007
Wellington
Otari-Wilton's Bush Trust
Thursday.
Workbee. Meet: 8.30am Information Centre / Te Marae o Tane, 160 Wilton Road, Wilton.
Contact: Ph: Jonathan Kennett or Bronwen Wall 472 5891, e-mail: jonathan@kennett.co.nz
Friday 26 October 2007
Southland
Southland Community Nursery Work Day
Fridays.
Propagate your own native plants for free. Open Fridays, phone the evening before
Contact: Chris Rance (03) 213-1161 or email rances@ihug.co.nz http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rances/
Friday 26 October 2007
Waikato
Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club
Fridays.
7 - 8.30 pm down at the Gardens in the Wintec Horticultural Centre.
Contact: Dave Matthews (07) 846-4013 (home) or (07) 850-8458 (work)
Saturday 27 October 2007
Wellington
Southern Environmental Association
Saturdays.
2 - 6pm. Workbee for SEA forest / coastal restoration project. Potting up, weeding and planting. Meet at the SEA native plant nursery, Lower Murchison Street, Island Bay, Wellington. (on the western side of the park, accessed by entering the park opposite 21 Murchison Street). All help is welcomed, even for a short time. Tools and afternoon tea provided
Contact: June Epsom (04) 384 5175
Sunday 28 October 2007
Auckland
Ark in the Park
4th Sunday.
Meet: Cascades Rangers' workshop behind the Rangers' house, Cascades Kauri Park
Contact: John Sumich 818 5267 cjnk@xtra.co.nz or Karen Colgan 837 0443 mcolgan@netaccess.co.nz
Sunday 28 October 2007
Auckland
Mutukaroa [Hamlins Hill] Park Care
Last Sunday.
1.30pm. Meet at the main entrance Great South Road [40 metres north from Sylvia Park Rd] Mt Wellington, Auckland.
Contact: Kit Howden 629 4694 or 021 0411667
Sunday 28 October 2007
Canterbury
Addington Bush Society AGM
Normally 1st Wed in May.
All members welcome.
12noon at 49 Spencer St, Addington. Pot luck lunch.
Contact: Mike Peters 338-5451
Sunday 28 October 2007
Canterbury
Charlesworth Wetland Reserve Planting Day
Last Sunday.
10 am till 12 noon. Charlesworth Reserve. The work will involve infill planting of coastal bush species along the bund and weeding around existing plantings.
Contact: Victoria Keene 027 542 7490
Sunday 28 October 2007
Canterbury
Clarevale Reserve Working Party
Sundays.
1 - 4pm, Clarevale Reserve, Travis Country Drive. Native Habitats restoring and caring for a corner of Travis Wetland in association with a study of the re-establishment of kahikatea forest. Please bring gumboots, work clothes and gloves if you have them. Other tools provided.
Contact: Contact Dave Evans beforehand as times and days are flexible and may vary. ph 366 0628, dave.evans@alliedtelesyn.co.nz
Sunday 28 October 2007
Wellington
Common Ground
Sundays.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Ground clearance, gorse cutting, seaweed collection, building compost heaps and plots, composting, pruning. BYO tools. All welcome, rain or shine. Meet at Home of Compassion, Island Bay, behind Aubert Childcare Centre.
Contact: Donna Byrne donna.byrne@paradise.net.nz
more calendar at
http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/calendar.html
3. NOTICEBOARD
... from Gay Munro of Southland NZERN/Biodiversity Southland Spring Field Day - Thursday 8th November. Restoration in the Lower Mataura
Titiroa to Gore 8.30am Bus Departs Feldwick Gates, Invercargill. 9.00am O'Neills Bush, TITIROA
History of the lower Matuara Floodplain Richard Bowman, Environment Southland.
Management of a Small Forest Remnant Randall Milne, Environment Southland. 10.30am Morning tea and toilet stop, Wyndham. 11.00am Wyndham Wildlife Refuge.
>From willows to natives Alan Leitch. 12.00pm Tuturau Memorial.
History of Tuturau Rewi Anglem, Hokonui Runanga.
Dongwha plantings a forest in the making. The Edendale Nursery story. 12.30pm Mataura Bridge
Mataura River restoration Celebrating a mataitai. Rewi Anglem, Hokonui Runanga. 1.15pm Hokonui Runanga Marae & Wetland Lunch Stop
Creating a natural wetland a simple process? Rewi Anglem, Hokonui Runanga. 3.30pm Borthwick's, Waitane.
Biodiversity Southland and funding available through Biodiversity Condition Funds
Janet Gregory, Biodiversity Southland Co-ordinator/Landcare Trust. Our thanks go to Biodiversity Southland & Environment Southland for sponsorship of the bus for this year's trip. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided, but please bring your own lunch. RSVP to Janet Gregory, 03 208 7883, janet.gregory@landcare.org.nz
or Gay Munro, 239 5827 or g.munro@woosh.co.nz
by Friday 2nd November.
4. HOW TO CONTACT NZERN
NZERN's main on-line resource is at www.bush.org.nz. Please encourage people to use this and let us know how they would like to see it developed. People without easy access to a computer can still use this resource at most public libraries. Useful Pages
* http://www.bush.org.nz/nzern/ - about NZERN.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/whatson/ - what is on in your area, how to volunteer.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/toolbox/ - look up suitable native plants for your area.
* http://www.bush.org.nz/directory/ - list of groups, nurseries and restoration sites. Help with a restoration project in your area!
* http://www.bush.org.nz/forum/ - forums
* http://www.help.bush.org.nz - how the members only website works How to contact NZERN
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