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Regent Honey Eater Recovery

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Getting the hands dirty

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Improving Soil and Water, Climate and Habitat

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Working the land

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Value Adding

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Feet firmly planted on the ground

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Common Ground

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We all love the bush

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A Place to Live

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It's about more than the beautiful birds alone

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70 000 Trees and Counting

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Tree Planting in the Bush ...Beautiful all round !

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Landholders work with tree planting groups to address land management and improvement in innovative ways. Volunteers give their time, energy and resources free of charge to see land managed and improved in ways that benefit the maximum number of species, including rural communities whose environment and long term sustainability prospects benefit from the betterment of habitat.

Innovative landusers are seeing benefits that put them ahead of conventional methods of land use and protect their valuable natural assets.

MAY 2006 - Capertee Tree Planting
The weekend was voted a great success with keen volunteers arriving early to lay out the trees at two seperate properties on Friday. Saturday's planting proved hard going in many places with limestone, degraded dry earth and thistles to be dealt with, but the teams of workers were made of stern stuff and stuck it out. The planting was declared finished at 4:30pm with daylight to spare and only some watering in to be done on the Sunday. The dinner put on by the capable Capertee P&C was a treat. These community events always prove entertaining, and judging by the volume of conversation and satisfied faces post meal, this was another champion occasion!

SEE YOU THERE

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Capertee Valley Tree Planting Weekends

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Tree planting activities will be underway again in May and August 2006.

The dates for the first one is the weekend of the 6th and 7th of May.

See previous entries [below] for info. on getting involved.

Or you can contact me by email @ -

Dig in and help, meet nature lovers from all over...

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Just for fun, and maybe a little help, I've made up a bit of a banner for the project. You'll find it on other sites to direct interested people to the info.

Treeplanting

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Factory treeplanting in Bushwacked

Interview with Charlotte Gill

Bushland Fair

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"Do yourself a favour !", as Molly used to say. Visit and support the work of the Blue Mountains residents whom care about where they live and what makes it different.

BushTipperProfiler

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Capering about...

August Planting a beaut...

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A bonza time was had by all. The Planting site was full of lovely soil, awaiting the return of natives. The Planters converged upon the site in concert, a flourishing movement of spade, pick and glove. The choreography spontaneous and grand. The day a treat!

The whole experience is a vitalising one. The chance to contribute,to just spend time, in such a magnificent setting is energising.

To top off some tidy work planting, some tidy work of wine and dine was called for... and so it was that the planters then converged upon the Glen Alice Hall and a fine & mighty repast was partaken of, a luminous slide show lit up the interior of the shed and a great many plantings of the past both recent and distant were perused...! Local wine was consumed, gregarious chat ensued, more wine of a rather more indistinct origin downed, and an even better time was had by all. After puddin' poets and balladeers spruiked late into the night. The P&C raffle was drawn and won...and twitching spoken of...good stuff.

April is the next planting...

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Our Place on the Great Dividing Range, the western edge of the Blue Mountains, NSW.

Contact Details for Regent Honeyeater Recovery Project

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To read more about the tree planting projects click on the links. Volunteers are welcome. The next planting is in 2006. Stay tuned for details.

If you decide you want to get involved contact the coordinator David Geering
David.Geering@environment(dot)nsw(dot)gov(dot)au

Substitute a dot "." where you see "(dot)" in the address.

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May Planting 2005

We have been lucky enough to participate in the 2004 and 2005 tree planting and habitat restoration programmes in the Capertee.

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With a touch of luck this dreaming valley will thrive and be precious for a long time to come.....

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" Good luck little one ! "

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Everyone is shown how to make a successful planting and old hands are happy to show young ones and new planters the way to do it.

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... and people know how to make the most of the day.

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Plantings involve many people of varying ages coming from diverse backgrounds travelling from near and far, rural and urban to do a hard days work

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Some live or stay in local towns, others camp nearby and wake up to a chorus of birds !

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Some plant in groups, some plant on their own. Everybody plants at their own pace.

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Contours of trees will help prevent salinity, marginalisation and sustain biodiversity

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Groups enjoy banter and making new aquaintances in the bush

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The ground at some plantings is easy to dig and at others is rock with only a smattering of soil. This one was hard yakka !

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At the beginning of the day the work seems vast, stretching out in front of us, layed out in lines ...

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... the planters are many......

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The vibe is good.

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The day's work.

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Ripped earth ready to receive a trees

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"To the Capertee did they come..." (from The Book of the CMoR)