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Bushland regeneration in the big city
Mosman
The bushland here is important, it breaks up the built environment. Mosman Parks and Bushland Association is really trying to keep all this bushland as much as we can. We're getting more densely developed, but the more people that come here, the more people that live here, the more these open spaces are so important.
In COVID we all realised how important our open spaces were.
Our council's been fantastic in supporting us and in supporting the community with its open space and providing paid bush regenerators. We work with them each week that we do bush regeneration, so we've been really fortunate in that way.
And of course as you're on the water it's lovely to look back and see these open spaces because they break up the built environment so well and provide that lovely relief and joy that you get.
When the world is troubling you can come to this little corner of the world, and it’s almost meditative to pull out weeds. And the companionship of friends who have a shared love and commitment, it's very good.
As for the bushland, we've got lots of different trees. There's been a lot of weed infestation here which we've been working on getting away for the last dozen years. For the fauna, there are possums, and there are bushturkeys that have really come back now and they love getting in here and making their mounds. I haven't seen heaps of birds but things are changing.
So it's improving all the time but it is an ongoing task and it's a large area and you can only do so much. We apply the Bradley method where we only do as much as we think we can manage to do.
So that means little fish have to be sweet. But it makes a difference over time.
Mosman Parks and Bushland Association
Rosemary Adams
The bushland here is important, it breaks up the built environment. Mosman Parks and Bushland Association is really trying to keep all this bushland as much as we can. We're getting more densely developed, but the more people that come here, the more people that live here, the more these open spaces are so important.
In COVID we all realised how important our open spaces were.
Our council's been fantastic in supporting us and in supporting the community with its open space and providing paid bush regenerators. We work with them each week that we do bush regeneration, so we've been really fortunate in that way.
And of course as you're on the water it's lovely to look back and see these open spaces because they break up the built environment so well and provide that lovely relief and joy that you get.
When the world is troubling you can come to this little corner of the world, and it’s almost meditative to pull out weeds. And the companionship of friends who have a shared love and commitment, it's very good.
As for the bushland, we've got lots of different trees. There's been a lot of weed infestation here which we've been working on getting away for the last dozen years. For the fauna, there are possums, and there are bushturkeys that have really come back now and they love getting in here and making their mounds. I haven't seen heaps of birds but things are changing.
So it's improving all the time but it is an ongoing task and it's a large area and you can only do so much. We apply the Bradley method where we only do as much as we think we can manage to do.
So that means little fish have to be sweet. But it makes a difference over time.
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