Tag: park

  • Safe chemical use

    Safe chemical use

    The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators has a variety of useful resources on the website, including several documents produced by their Chemicals in the Management of Biodiversity (CIMB) Working Group. One that FEP volunteers working in parks may find useful is Safe chemical use for bush regenerators.

  • DDEC December News

    DDEC December News

    Darling Downs Environment Council has published its December newsletter. Items include response to the Coalition climate policy, Carols for the Canopy, nest box project, combatting disinformation, Koala Count, and more.

  • Safety Manual

    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…

  • Echo Valley: Help wanted & amazing insect

    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.

  • Tavern Talk – 30 Oct

    Tavern Talk – 30 Oct

    Friends of Peacehaven Botanic Park Inc. have announced October Tavern Talk which is open to all. Speaker: Robert CampbellTopic: The Big Picture: Council & Community collaboration at Peacehaven Park — Past, Present & FutureDate: Thursday 30 October 2025Time: 6 pm for 7 pm presentationPlace: Highfields TavernCost: No charge (but purchase your own dinner and drinks) …

  • Cranley Escarpment – Have your say

    Cranley Escarpment – Have your say

    Toowoomba Regional Council invites you to Have Your Say on Cranley Escarpment Park!  Cranley Escarpment is a large bushland reserve that offers recreation, open space and bushwalking trails.  Upgrades have been scheduled by Council to meet local park recreation standards, to activate and enhance the park area through minor embellishments that provide opportunity for social…

  • Microforest Open Day

    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…

  • Hancock Street Microforest

    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…

  • The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025

    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…

  • TRC National Tree Day Planting

    TRC National Tree Day Planting

    Location: Black Gully Park 3, Newtown (83A Holberton Street) Best parking at: 1A Clearview Street (signage will be placed on the day) Date: Saturday, 11 October Time: 8:00am – 11:00am Each year, communities across Australia come together to celebrate Planet Ark’s National Tree Day—the country’s largest tree planting and nature care event. Since 1996, this…