After visiting the site off Kalang Avenue some months ago I was expecting a patch of live Erica, but it looks like that a spray team has been in since and it mostly dead. The few outbreaks well inside the bushline were still there but didn’t take long to clear, although there was a considerable […]
Goat Hills Well some of our group were certainly somewhat poorer after putting in a good day of work. Between morning break and lunch our packs were tampered with and goods stolen. One pack top zip was open and wallet half hanging out and on investigation found money and iPhone gone. Most of the packs […]
Inglewood Gorse Morning break at Inglewood It was a mild day but the wind did get strong enough to blow off hats and tip over our packets of biscuits during our morning coffee break. It used to be morning tea, but now that the City of Hobart bushcare office supplies a fresh […]
For years we have known of a thick patch of Erica at Goat Hills but have confined our efforts to just contain any expansion from the site. An offer was received from NRMSouth for a Green Army group for two days, and the chance to tackle this problem area meant a quick acceptance. Green Army […]
Getting a lift up to Goat Hills is a great boon, but when we have to get back on foot the old route is a much pleasanter way both visually and ease of walking. To enable us to go this way a car shuffle was arranged and it worked out well. Some plants in the […]
Within the bush in McRobies Gully lies a few spots that were smothered in Erica or Broom and we first worked on them in 2006. One location was within the area of a management burn in Spring 2015 and amazingly almost everything but a patch of Erica had been burnt. It proved to be a […]
Goat Hills With 8 places for volunteers in the vehicles available it is always going to be unknown if there will be room for everyone, but ton this occasion we had the number to fill the spots and so no one had to walk up the steep track to Goat Hills. The return trip is […]
The walking track to Collins cap has now been cleared to bring it up to a reasonable standard. A little over three years ago, in September 2012 work started on clearing back the thick vegetation that had encroached over the track so much that it required pushing through to progress along to the last 800 […]
The Collins Bonnet track clearing project has now been completed, all within the year. It commenced in March 2015 on the lower 1.1 kilometre section, from the junction with the Collins Cap track, and gradually we worked up the steep slope in June and November with the final bit done on this December day. A […]
We have been going up to a bushland site at Goat Hills for 12 years removing the dastardly weed, Erica lusitanica (Spanish Heath) and, whilst it seems a never ending task, considerable progress has been made. On this visit the plants being removed were mostly small, but there were still pockets of somewhat taller 2-3 […]