Category Archives: Natural Environment

Totara Park Grubbers’ Club this weekend!

Posted on 1 March, 2018 by graemesawyer

We are all on for another track build session on this Saturday 3 March from 1 to 3 pm. You will be impressed with the progress!

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Help JCA build a new walking track through Totara Park

Posted on 8 December, 2017 by graemesawyer

This is a shout out for VOLUNTEERS to help build a new walking track through Totara Park this Saturday afternoon.

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Kindergarten over Community Garden?

Posted on 20 February, 2017 by graemesawyer

Wellington City Council proposes to move a kindergarten onto a hard-won and scarce public community garden in Johnsonville. Continue reading →

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Totara Park walkway & replanting picks up pace

Posted on 7 March, 2016 by graemesawyer

  On 4 March, Penny Salmond & Graeme Sawyer from JCA accompanied Anita Benbrook, WCCs Restoration Technical Advisor and native Forrest expert, on a wander through the Totara Park, roughly on the same route as the proposed new walking track through the … Continue reading →

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Trees native to Johnsonville

Posted on 30 September, 2015 by graemesawyer

A List! If you have ever wondered what species were here before our version of Jebidiah Springfield obliterated them all in the late 1840s, here it is! Not an exhaustive list, but for 99.99% of us, as close as you … Continue reading →

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JCA submission on WCC Urban Growth Plan

Posted on 27 October, 2014 by graemesawyer

WCC released its Urban Growth Plan for consultation in September 2014. After the shambolic mess that was WCCs District Plan Change 72, where WCC earmarked areas for “intensification” in outer suburbs that were massively at odds with what residents wanted, … Continue reading →

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