Calling all planters for Lake Wairarapa
People with an interest in Lake Wairarapa can help improve the environment down there by helping plant 1000 native wetland plants next Sunday (9 August, 10.30am).
The planting is taking place at Barton’s Lagoon, which is part of Lake Reserve on the northern shore of Lake Wairarapa.
Seventy people helped out with a similar planting at the lagoon last year, in a project that will gradually replace the invasive alder trees that surround the lagoon with native wetland plants.
Several Wairarapa organisations are working together to make more of Lake Wairarapa, Lake Onoke and their wetlands, including South Wairarapa District Council, Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Rangitane o Wairarapa, the Department of Conservation and Greater Wellington.
Planting organiser Jim Flack of Greater Wellington’s Masterton office says this is a great opportunity to get involved in the early stages of a project to improve the third largest lake in the North Island.
“We’re running out of wetlands and the ones that are left need a hand. Bring your muscles and your gumboots, we’ll supply the spades and give you a BBQ lunch for your trouble,” says Jim.
Access to Lake Reserve and Barton’s Lagoon is down Murphy’s Line, a few hundred metres east of Featherston on State Highway 53 (the Featherston/Martinborough Road). It is well signposted from there.
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