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Subscribers may be interested in joining in with
the following activity proposed by the Friends of Grasslands.
Jack Holland
Visit to Scottsdale
On Saturday 10 March the Friends of Grasslands
(FOG) will Visit to Scottsdale
from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Scottsdale is a
1300ha grassy ecosystem property north of Bredbo (NSW), which was purchased by
Bush Heritage in early December 2006, as part of the Kosciuszko to Coast (K2C)
project of which FOG is an active member. This will be the first
opportunity for FOG members to visit Scottsdale which contains some exciting
grassy ecosystem vegetation, and some real weed challenges. Come and learn
about and/or contribute to Bush Heritage?s plans to restore the degraded
pasture, dominated by African love grass (ALG) and serrated tussock (ST), to
natural grasslands, and the plans for the recovery of other grassy ecosystems on
the property. The trip will include a visit to Ingelara (a
property just north of Scottsdale) to hear about Pete Bottomley and Gina
Osborne?s, and Tobias and Beatrice Koenig's work on replacing ALG and ST
with native pasture.
The plan for the day is to meet on the Monaro
Highway, just south of Johnson Drive (Tuggeranong) and visit Ingelara from 9:30
am to 11 am and Scottsdale from 11:30 am to 4 pm. At Ingelara Tobias will
describe their strategies and methods which are based on a holistic/organic
practices and show people around. At Scottsdale Owen Whitaker and Lauren
Van Dyke will outline the K2C project and the Scottsdale component, and will
show us an ALG site (before lunch), and the river and the woodland heights
(after lunch). Lunch will be a barbeque planned for 1 pm. For
morning tea, FOG will provide hot water, coffee, tea, milk, sugar, juice and
biscuits, and for lunch sausages (or meat substitute), onions, bread, coffee,
tea, etc. We plan to charge $5 per head, payable on the day, to cover
costs.
For catering and possibly car pooling purposes,
contact Geoff Robertson on 6241 4065 or
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