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    Tomaree Bush & Beach Workshop: Native Plants or Weed look-a-likes! Saturday 21 May


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    Join our Tomaree Bush and Beach workshop: 
    Native Plant or Weed look-a-likes!

    Saturday 21 May 

    Are you just a little curious about those plants you see in your bush and beach wanders? What's good and what's out of place?  

    The Friends of Tomaree National Park invite you to join us to learn about: 

    • Tomaree’s coastal dune, headland, forest and wet gully ecology 

    • interesting features of some common natives 

    • easily-confused native and weed look-alikes 

    • some bush regeneration principals and minimal impact techniques.

    Workshop program:

    8.15am

    Sign in

    8.30am

    Welcome, overview, Tomaree habitats, plant ID basics

    10am

    Morning tea supplied

    10.30am

    Native plants and weeds -- hands-on activities, discussion and theory

    12.15pm

    Lunch supplied

    1.15

    Depart to a nearby field site

    3.30

    Close



    Please register each participant separately.

    This is an activity of the Friends of Tomaree National Park, a volunteer community group of the National Parks Association. The NPA is a not-for-profit organisation, advocating for better management of national parks. 

    The voluntary work program of the Friends of Tomaree is managed and supported by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.  

    This event "Tomaree Bush and Beach workshop – Native Plant or Weed look-a-likes!" is supported by Hunter Region Landcare Network and Hunter Local Land Services through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program

    The Friends of Tomaree National Park acknowledge we live, meet and work on the lands of the Worimi People. We pay respect to Elders, past, present and future, and acknowledge the pivotal role of First Nations People within the Australian community.


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