Looking after Lane Cove National Park for the long-term with community

Register to attend the Field Trip

This AABR-supported event is rescheduled after postponements cancellations in 2022 due to floods and Covid.

The President of the Friends of Lane Cove National Park, Tony Butteriss, will be guiding us through the different sections of the site:

• To look at a combination of community planting and regeneration over several years.
• To observe the successful regeneration of Salt Marsh and other riparian areas, and
• To see the Fairyland walk for a comparison of areas that had been burnt in both the 1994 and 2011 fires and regenerated naturally with the areas that have been planted.

The River Avenue bushcare site has received numerous grants including two from the Environmental Trust, DPI Fish Habitat and a recent Federal Government Community Environment grant. There is a mix of bush regeneration in areas that have good resilience,  and EECs,  and areas badly affected by past practices where the group has undertaken a program of community planting particularly utilising National Tree Day since 2019, and again with Jubilee funds in 2022.

With the rallying cry of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration ‘What will you restore? and’ a call to be part of the restoration generation, this explanatory walk will provide lots of lessons learned and highlight a critical element of this restoration project, a community drawn together since 1994 for over a generation under the banner of The Friends of Lane Cove National Park , committed to the call and committed to restoration/regenerating the eucalypt forests, casuarina woodlands and saltwater wetlands.

Here is a brochure outlining the walk

When was the last time you visited Lane Cove National Park?

Join us for the AABR and Friends field trip on Saturday afternoon 1-3pm.

This field trip leaves enough time to hire a row boat on the River beforehand. Row boats for hire are located in Riverside Drive (to access this area you need to pay to go into the Park) and for exploring the Park …why not make a day of it?

https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/lane-cove-national-park

Register to attend the Field Trip

COST

MEMBERS $0

NON MEMBERS $0

STUDENTS $0

MEETING POINT

Opposite 114 River Avenue, Chatswood West.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

From Chatswood Station (Pacific Hwy side) take Bus 259 (Stand G, Victoria Ave,) to Delhi Rd/River Avenue stop.

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