Tag: park
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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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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) …
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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…
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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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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…
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Renaming of Park in honour of Dr Swarbrick
Friends of the Escarpment Parks approached Toowoomba Regional Council to request that a 2000m2 piece of land opposite Lovers Outlook on Prince Henry Drive be renamed in honour of FEP founder, Dr John Swarbrick. Members and friends of FEP are encouraged to support the renaming by responding to the Council using the QR code or…
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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…