Frankly I hate getting down and dirty with the local council sponsored Bushcare. It is hard work and usually accompanied by some nasty scratches and bites...but the satisfaction of seeing an area of bushland coming back to life is amazing. Four years ago, the lush marshland atwitter with birds was had to be regularly slashed. Tractors doing the work were always in danger of bogging. Now that is unnecessary and the Council can concentrate it's assets on other problems. What made all the difference were the Council officers taking the time to trainspotting us locals on Russell Island to understand what was necessary to do the change...and throwing a decent sized grant our way to do the hard stuff better done by machinery. This was the second area we had revived along the length of Merson in the last decade. I will miss being part of the next campaigns.
Posted from Lee Shipley's phone
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