Clarence
Valley Environment Centre
Summer 2000
Newsletter
Landcare Room
A NICE DAY OUT
Have you been longing to be part of the Rainforest Remnant Rescue Landcare group's fiendish plot to turn Corcoran Park over to rainforest?
Your chance has finally come around again!
- We're having a planting day on Saturday February 12.
- We'll be adding more sub-tropical rainforest
trees to our site down at the far end of Corcoran Park.
NOTE: It's the park on the bank of the Clarence River near the end of Villiers Street, looking across to Elizabeth Island.
The trees have been propagated by John Myers from seed collected at Susan and Elizabeth Islands.
So far, we have planted
|
Banana Bush Brown Kurrajong Foambark Native Frangipani Native Peach |
Native Rosella Native Tamarind Red Ash Red Bean Red Kamala Rough-Leaved Elm |
Sandpaper Fig Scrambling Lily Snow Wood Tulipwood White Cedar |
| They've all done really well and already it's become a dense leafy place to walk through. | ||
These are the trees that grew here before Grafton was imagined. They once grew all over the Clarence floodplain, making a habitat for creatures, protecting the water flows and helping the earth breathe. Now there are only two significant areas of vegetation left on the Clarence - Maclean Nature Reserve and Susan Island.
Lowland sub-tropical rainforest has just been given a preliminary determination as a threatened community under the Threatened Species Conservation Act.
Our forest will add a small pocket for biodiversity's sake, and give the birds and flying foxes bite to eat and somewhere to hang. Soon we'll put up a display board to share information about lowland rainforest, and maybe people will be inspired to plant rainforest trees on their Clarence river frontages instead of grass.
Grafton Council's willing to let us shift a fence back and turn some cattle pasture over to rainforest. This is a big plump opportunity that we really should take up. It's just a matter of getting enough people interested in helping.
Hope to see you there!
We'll start at 4.00pm.
Bring a hat, shovel and bucket if you can, and lunch.
It's good working at the
river because when you get hot you can swim.
There are lots of shady places to sit, too, under the trees we put in
last year and the year before.
Clarence Environment Centre
17 Skinner Street
South Grafton NSW 2460 Australia
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