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The weather was really windy and cold early in the month as far as I have been told, but Rodney reported a good turn-up for the first Thursday activity, checking up on the work we did on 133 Forest Rd. last year. They picked up six big bags of rubbish and glass from the area below the Mt. Stuart Lookout, …

Vale Melva Truchanas. Tasmanian conservationist.Melva was also one of a group of West Hobart people that formed FoKL. The earliest dated paper I can find in our archives is from 7/3/1993. Melve  (secretary?) sent a list of 32 people to Tony Ault (convenor?) from a meeting. The group is already called Friends of Knocklofty. Their aim is to ‘rehabilitate and …

This month we started on the southern side of the Trig Hill, hand pulling or cutting and pasting re-growth  gorse. It is a few years since we swept through that area, and it was needed. The third area to be worked was high up on the eastern side of Knocklofty. KR 18. We walked uphill for 30 min. worked for …

The first Thursday activity this month was maintaining the open area above the Weerona Trail that we planted with grasses in august 2020. The plants are doing well, and if we can keep the re-growth gorse, thistles and other weeds off for another couple of years, the area will be open grass land, an asset for the reserve. The second …

Gorse seeds can lay dormant in the soil for at least 25 years, and areas in the reserve that was cleared 35 years ago and have not had flowering gorse since then are still producing seedlings. So with a wet winter and spring we were busy pulling up or cutting and pasting regrowth gorse during two activities. The third area …

In November we did our half-yearly maintenance of the wayleave below the power lines.The aim is to clear the area of tall growth that might interfere with the lines.The last Sunday activity was busy.We first has a ‘bird watch’ guided by Denis, though he said he would rather call it a ‘bird walk’,as listening to the birds was just as …

Our first activity went well and we weeded re-growth of gorse, boneseed, thistles, forget-me-nots etc. either side of the Weerona trail.At morning coffee time Greg Milne from COH was able to joined us, and we talked about a possible seating arrangement near the Bandicoot corridor.Then the COVID-19 hit a gain and we had a snap lock-down, so the bird watch …

We spent the first two Thursdays of the month clearing forget-me-nots, thistles and re-growth gorse in and near the gully below the Weerona Trail. On the Sunday we planted a mixture of flax lily, saggs, tussock grass and white flag irish, 100 in all, in Salvator Rosa Glen. An area was also seeded with wallaby grass. A very efficient team, …

This month we went through the area on both sides of the Glover track checking for weeds. Then it was maintenance of the grasses we planted in August last year above the Weerona Trail. It was decided to keep the plastic ‘sleeves’ protecting  the plants in place for another year. Then we had one of the windiest days of the …

The first activity this month was spent finishing the work of cutting and pasting the old-growth gorse on 133 Forest Rd. Talia, the co-ordinator from COH bushcare was really appreciative of our effort there. The other two working days were spent on hand pulling forget-me-nots in the southern Providence Rivulet gully, below the Weerona Trail. Because it has been such …