Tag: FEP
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Christmas Party – Sat, 6 Dec
The FEP end of year get together this year will be a breakfast event at the DDEC Eco Hut on Saturday 6 December. RSVP by message to Shirley Dunsdon (number below) and advise any dietary requirements .
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Safety Manual
The FEP Safe Work Procedures Manual has been available for download from the website on the Volunteer and Park Care pages. Following a recent suggestion that it should be more easily accessible when needed in the field it has now been linked from the icon (seen in this post) that appears at top right on…
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Echo Valley: Help wanted & amazing insect
Wanted: FEP volunteers to assist with a volunteer student group who will be removing weeds and lantana on Wednesday 12 November. If you can help contact Greg Lukes 04 2828 8077 or glukes@bigpond.com. Read the whole piece for more details including about the stick insect.
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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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Christmas party – Dec 6
The FEP end of year get together this year will be a breakfast event at the DDEC Eco Hut on Saturday 6 December. RSVP by message to Shirley Dunsdon (number below) and advise any dietary requirements .
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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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FEP Annual General Meeting
The FEP AGM will be held on Saturday, 30 August at 10 am in the Toowoomba City Library Community Rooms, Level 3, 155 Herries Street. We will welcome Greg Spearitt, our guest speaker, who will talk about Condamine Country Plant Group’s book project and also present on Mistletoe species. This will be followed by our President’s,…
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FEP Stall – 17 Aug
FEP will be sharing a stall with Condamine Country Plant Group this Sunday 17 August from 8 am – 1 pm at the Queens Park Craft Market. We will have our plant books for sale and will be very happy to chat about the work FEP does. Members and their friends and family may like…