Table of Contents:

• Glenthorne NP Bush Care Days
• Nari Reserver or Bird Watch
• New Young People's Group
• "Help my Family leave Sudan"
• Acknowledgement of Country

This Saturday, (13/5/2023) is our Second Saturday Friends Bushcare Day for May.

The forecast looks favourable, so please come along.

• The Rangers have arranged many truck loads of Mulch around pods read for spreading.
• All the plastic sheeting in the "Community Grassland" project can now be removed, and all those areas slashed (no spraying).
• A pile of seedling tubes in the now un-used Temporary Nursery area need tidying up and moving to RDA.
• Small Olives along creek-line & around dam need to be plucked.

Please wear appropriate clothing, and BYO lunch, drinking water, snacks etc.

Of course, if you are unwell, please do the right thing and stay at home.

We will meet in the Majors Road Ranger Station carpark from 15 minutes before Start time, and move out to the work area after Sign-In. If you are late, then, if you do not know where the group will be, you will need to ring one of the following.

Martin: 0403 804 306

Alan:   0411 595 910

Karen:  0479 048 394

Bob and Garry will lead this BushCare Day.

Please park in the Ranger Station car park and walk to the site we are working on as described above, look out for people in the high-viz vests.  As the park is currently under construction we are trying to minimise the amount of vehicles entering the park, and we do not want general members of the public thinking that they can just drive in too!  If you do not have the capacity to walk that distance, please let us know ASAP or one of the phone numbers above, and one of our members transporting equipment will provide you with a lift into the park.

Please remember that we hold Bushcare Days on the first and third Sundays, second Saturday, of each month, and on each Wednesday morning. All are welcome.

April Bush Care Days are:

• Each Wednesday at 9am
• At Glenthonre NP-IY
  • 1st & 3rd Sunday, 7th & 21st May, 10-4pm
  • 2nd Saturday 13th May 10-4pm,
• At RDA (Riding for Disabled) : Sat 27th May, 9-12pm.

If you want another choice for this Saturday, there are two more options:

• Bird Watching at Glenthorne. Meet Alan at the Ranger's Station Carpark at 8:30 am. Birds SA people always have BYO lunch after a Field Trip and we go through the list of birds seen, so it will be very interesting for all to hear this.
• Grey Box Planting at Nari Reserver, An event hosted by the City of Marion. Meet Martin at the site on Nari Drive, Sheidow Park.

On Saturday 25th February, we had the initial meeting of a young people's group. We met at the Clubrooms of the Australian Plant Society (APS), in Goodwood.

Initially, this group will learn about Australian Plants, and will do workshops to grow them, particularly rare or endangered plant, but also other plants much needed at Glenthorne, as well as other Bushcare sites.

Future activités of the group is yet to be determined, and suggestions are welcome.

It is hoped that this group, Primary and Secondary school age, will be led by the young people themselves, and involve others as needed.

If you would like to know more, or have in mind school-age young people who would benefit from being involved in this group, then please let us know by replying to this email.

Martin (on behalf of Tina)