Category: Parks
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Redwood Madeira Challenge – Summer
Thank-you for your support in the past. Our next Redwood Madeira Weed Challenge – SUMMER is on Saturday 29th November from 7.00 – 10.00am. We aim to clear a 10-metre-wide strip of Madeira Vine, Cats Claw and Climbing Asparagus along the Redwood Forest Walk. Our regular volunteers are unable to bring this area under control on their…
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Microforest Open Day
Your chance to experience a Microforest – an urban contribution to creating a native habitat stepping stone in the landscape by planting what was once there. Toowoomba’s Friends of Escarpment Parks invite you to celebrate the success of their Hancock Street Park MICROFOREST at an OPEN DAY Saturday 4th October. What an amazing accomplishment https://fep.org.au/projects/microforest-project/ Join…
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Hancock Street Microforest
The signs are up promoting the Microforest Open Day which will be held on Saturday, 4 October from 10 am to 2 pm. As the project evolved from inception in 2022 to final planting in 2024 and the upcoming celebration the story was recorded by Ann Alcock in a blog. The material from that blog…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025
This issue of the FEP Newsletter has annual reports from each of the parks where volunteers work and a summary of database records of hours worked. Other content includes a brief summary of Greg Spearritt’s presentation about mistletoes at the AGM, details of the upcoming Microforest Open Day, a piece about fungi, accounts of bushland…
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Leopard Ash park visit
FEP will be hosting a Park Visit to Leopard Ash Bushland Park on Saturday 14th June at 9 am. For more details about the park including a map click on the link above. Leopard Ash Park is a small bushland park (0.5ha) located between 16 and 18 Charmaine Court in Kleinton. It was saved from the bulldozers when the…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – May 2025
This issue has news from the committee, plant list for Williams Park, report on the Redwood Park Madeira Vine challenge, information about distinctions among Native, Indigenous and Endemic Plants, and more.
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FEP park visit
We are planning a Park Visit to Leopard Ash Bushland Park on Saturday 14th June at 9am. Leopard Ash Park is a small bushland park (0.5ha) located between 16 and 18 Charmaine Court in Kleinton. It was saved from the bulldozers when the surrounding sub-division was created and is a unique remnant of endangered dry…
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Redwood Madeira Weed Challenge – WINTER
After the success of the Autumn Challenge, thirty volunteers are invited to assist with clearing half an acre along the Redwood Forest Track on Saturday May 31st from 8.00-11.00am. Registration through Trybooking is essential.
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Owlet-nightjars in Duggan Park
Charles Dove has kindly offered these two photos of owlet nightjars nesting in Duggan Bushland Park.
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Toowoomba Bird Observers: Mar 25
Toowoomba Bird Observers have distributed their March newsletter featuring as bird of the month the Whimbrel. Details of two forthcoming walks during April are included along with information and images from recent walks. Other items of interest include images and description of an Oriental Cuckoo in Redwood Park and a piece about recording bird sounds.