Welcome to the second work activity on Red Hill this year. While there are few major concentrations of treatable weeds on the hillside between Mugga Way and the Davidson’s Trig, there remains a liberal sprinkling of verbascum, briar rose, thistles and other assorted woody weeds which can be treated. So our plan for Sunday will be to patrol this sector of the Hill and either chip the scattered verbascum and thistles or cut and dab the many briar rose and other woody weed plants. This will entail a fair amount of walking up the hillside to the ridge, then back down to the Mugga Way car park for morning tea.
We are pleased to be advised that a contract has been let to continue the blackberry spraying, starting around April. Much of the blackberry sprayed last year in the southern end of the Hill has died off, but will need to be inspected at future work activities to identify and treat any areas of regrowth.
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Location: Park and assemble at the Mugga Way car park. Task, tool distribution and safety briefings will be held at 9am sharp followed by a walk through the bush towards Davidson’s Trig. Morning tea at 11am at the car park. Work usually wraps up at about 12.30pm, or earlier if the weather heats up.
Activities: Chip or cut/dab verbascum, briar rose, thistles plus other weeds.
Conditions: Some cleared lower slopes with steep wooded and rocky higher slopes.
You bring: Water to drink, hat, leather gloves, long sleeved shirt, long pants essential, eye protection, sunscreen, solid enclosed shoes. BYO morning tea.
We bring: Tools – We will bring secateurs, loppers, saws, some small mattocks and herbicide dabbers (bring your empty dabbers to exchange for full ones). We will also bring a basic first aid kit, and provide tool use and weeding ID and advice as needed. Bring your own tools, if available.
Note: It is important that you attend the activity safety briefing at 0900 to obtain tools, directions and to sign in and out. A byo morning tea is usually held at 11am, with an opportunity to discuss matters of relevance to the Group. Such discussions constitute ‘General Meetings’ as defined by the Rules of our organisation and may be minuted. Work will normally finish at 12.30pm but may be curtailed in hot weather.
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Cancellation: The activity will be cancelled by email (if possible), no later than 8am on the activity day, if rain/wind is forecast which could make planned work potentially hazardous, high temperatures before midday are forecast, total fire bans are announced, air pollution is ‘hazardous’ or additional Covid 19 restrictions in force. Note: The Red Hill Regenerators Group is advised by the ACT Parks & Conservation Service and the information below:
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- ‘Guidelines for Volunteer fieldwork in extreme conditions‘, which addresses extreme temperatures and poor air quality, as measured by PM2.5 levels (to obtain up to the minute information about air quality, there are a number of Apps, including the ‘Air Matters‘ App);
- ‘Volunteer Fieldwork through Covid19’ latest update;
- Information at: https://www.covid19.act.
gov.au/protecting-yourself- and-others - the Volunteer Policy and Code of Conduct can be accessed from the ParkCare Hub Home Page on the right hand side under “Files” https://app.betterimpact.
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