Yesterday evening, we joined a sizable team of tree planters on a slope overlooking Taramea Bay to plant native trees. The project to restore that particular site is being steered by a neighbour and our surfing field officer for QEII Trust and it's looking very good indeed. While I was helping to plant, I talked with him about a proposed seaside planting project at Colac Bay where I've been advising the land owner to recreate the wetland and coastal forest that once grew there. Both projects will add huge value to the areas they occupy and improve the quality of life for anyone visiting or living in the area.
Yesterday, I was involved in assessing a funding application for a very large native revegetation project at Wakapatu, further around the coast, and another toward Dipton. There is a great deal of this sort of thing going on down here and it's encouraging to be riding that particular wave. I hope I'm returned to the Council at this weekend's vote count-up, as I will be able to continue to influence the restoration of Southland's native forests from the 'top' and the 'bottom' and places in between.
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That's exciting, and good to hear that Southland communities and landowners are getting it. Just need a change in thinking around certain farming practices now ;-)
Have to say that the ORC elections are the most depressing I've seen in a while. Better luck with your lot! and for you :-)
There's a strange air of...something around these local body elections, isn't there, wildcrafty?
I suspect the dam will break as the General Election approaches and we'll see something we haven't seen in many years - passion.
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