Revegetation Project in Marlborough Sounds
, chair,
Marlborough Forest and Bird.
—MARGARET PEACE
Four years ago the late Devon Close, a former member of both Wellington and Marlborough branches, bequeathed a considerable legacy to Forest and Bird. A small part of this is being used by Marlborough Forest and Bird to establish a revegetation project at Whatamonga Bay, east of Picton. The land is in an area managed by the Department of Conservation and was formerly used for grazing. DoC staff have ring-fenced an area of about 0.4 hectare, known as Devon Close Memorial Reserve. In place of long grass, gorse and blackberry, several hundred native trees and shrubs are now well-established. The aim is to recreate an ecosystem like that original to the area. As DoC has insufficient money and people power for this work, cooperation with Forest and Bird is a valuable partnership.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FORBI20030801.2.36.3
Bibliographic details
Forest and Bird, Issue 309, 1 August 2003, Page 42
Word Count
144Revegetation Project in Marlborough Sounds Forest and Bird, Issue 309, 1 August 2003, Page 42
Using This Item
For material that is still in copyright, Forest & Bird have made it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This periodical is not available for commercial use without the consent of Forest & Bird. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this magazine please refer to our copyright guide.
Forest & Bird has made best efforts to contact all third-party copyright holders. If you are the rights holder of any material published in Forest & Bird's magazine and would like to discuss this, please contact Forest & Bird at editor@forestandbird.org.nz
Log in