Horse Shoe Falls Reserve Bushcare Group

Welcome to Horseshoe Falls Bushcare Group

Highlights:

  • More than 900 volunteer hours worked on site.
  • Members have diverse backgrounds and range in age from children to retirees.
  • Several active members including Hard Yakka award winners two years running and some with bush regeneration qualifications.
  • Interesting and varied tasks to do each month.
  • The reserve has several gorgeous waterfalls.
  • Features two rare plants: Pultanaea glabra (Smooth Bush Pea), and Acacia Ptychoclada (Swamp Wattle).

Horseshoe Falls Bushcare Group in north Hazelbrook started in July 2000.

The reserve has several waterfalls – Horseshoe, Burgess, Lyrebird, Lena, Oaklands and Glow Worm Nook falls. Our group rediscovered and restored a section of the historic track.

The Horseshoe Falls track was built 1898 -1903 (regionally significant, according to the NPWS Walking Track Heritage Study). Other tracks were added until the 1940s.

What we do: weeding, pruning, seed collecting and raising, planting, clearing sediment from drains on walking tracks.

Main weeds targeted: Montbretia, Coreopsis, Blackberry, Sweet Vernal Grass, African Love Grass, Catsear, Japanese Honeysuckle, Trad, Small-Leaf Privet, Cootamundra Wattle.

The group meets on the third Sunday of each month to work from 1.30 to 4.30pm, with afternoon tea afterwards.

We also work at Gloria Park on alternative months, please ring the contact person or Bushcare Officer Trish Kidd.

Facilitator: Morag Ryder 4758 9534