Living Waters - A working group of Bay of Islands Maritime Park

2015 - Rangitane - Planting Days

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Photo descriptions:

1 & 2. It took volunteers several months to cut down and clear the tall gorse and tobacco weed.
3. Piles of dead gorse and weeds removed from the reserve.
4. A batch of native trees and shrubs grown by volunteers at Kerikeri Shadehouse nursery.
5 - 8. Local volunteers planting the southern ridge of the reserve.
9. Planted southern ridge. Some of the plants needed tree guard protection from gnawing rabbits.
10. Planted northern ridge, with rabbit protection for species that rabbits like to graze on. Larger trees will be inserted between the plants this month.