C3 community parkland and walking track project - early February update

Giving credit to my amazing wifes blog before I start as she posted most of this up first.
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After being in contact with the Natural resource management unit of the tweed shire council we were given approval to begin clearing the non-local/non-native/dangerous(high risk) trees from the parklands area and the development and management of the remainder or the project within the parameters of the proposed plan. The past two weeks has seen the clearing of some of the weed trees, management of the previously cleared weeds and expansion of the weed clearing to cover the entire proposed parklands area and removal of the old fence. Id like to especially thank Margy ( Below ) for coming on thursday (4th feb) , in the pouring rain and to Ben the following thursday(11th feb) to assist us in clearing the trees.

 "Our awesome friend, Margy, not afraid to get dirty and help out, even in the rain. 

It was actually quite a challenge. 

The years have left piles of leaf litter on top of stumps, branches, and interesting finds.

We were just keeping our eyes open- the area was perfect snake habitat." Marija

ABOVE: The first of the trees to be removed are the Umbrella trees, the two larger trees were dropped last week (4th feb). The majority of the stumps have now been removed and are ready for painting with herbicides.

BELOW: If you took a look out the back last week this is what you would have seen. The trees were down and ready for cleanup. Sadly this was made harder as during the week someone had spread them around. 

For the moment you will notice there are large piles of tree waste outside the kids church, this is a temporary location until the compost bins are constructed. For the remainer of the trees they have been removed from the parklands. 

We have now cleared all of the parkland areas, seeing me in the distance gives you an idea of the size of the parklands area and grass has already started to come up in sections. This is giving us a great canvas to begin the next stages of the parklands project.

Keep an eye out for more updates, and if you would like to be apart of this project we are onsite:

Monday 7am till 9.30am

Thursday 7am till 12pm