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HEN Newsletter June 2019

July 15, 2019

Hello HEN Members and Supporters,

A lot has been happening in the last two months. The HEN Committee is
busy campaigning and working for the preservation of our precious
Hawkesbury Environment.

Two recent elections (State and Federal) have given HEN an opportunity
to attend candidates forums in Richmond and Springwood to put the
difficult questions about environmental protection to candidates in the
State seat of Hawkesbury and the Federal seat of Macquarie. Both forums were well attended and HEN was able to attract some new members via
our information stalls.

After lots of behind-the scenes work from committee and community
members and Hawkesbury City Council, the Reuse & Repair Online
Directory has been launched. If you can you fix, mend, sew, or are you
just an all-around handy person, you now have the opportunity to
register with our brand new Reuse & Repair Online Directory created
in partnership with our very own Hawkesbury City Council.  It’s free for you to join and we will promote your repair services to local
Hawkesbury residents.  
So if you are a local resident, business or organisation and you are good
at fixing things please do register using the link provided.  Our goal is to
connect you to local residents, give broken items a second life and reduce waste going to our landfill.  
https://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/media/forms/hawkesbury-reuse-and-repair-directory

The inaugural Hawkesbury “Green Drinks” was held at the end of May at the Macquarie Arms, Windsor. This is a social get-together for people who are interested in environmental protection and related community issues. The first Green Drinks hosted Carolyn Williams from the Blue Mountains Conservation Society who spoke about a very useful Blue Mountains tool kit for reporting and writing submissions about environmental changes that residents might want to encourage. The event was attended by over 30 interested people.

HEN’s Submission to Hawkesbury Council regarding the proposed sandmine at Freeman’s Reach has been sent and we still await further news on this matter. 

After sending off a request for information and action regarding the health of Bushell’s Lagoon, HEN is still waiting for a response from government. 

Planning for KoalaFest 2019 is in the works and will go ahead again in early September in Governor Phillip Park, Windsor. Last year the very popular KoalaFest 2018 was held in Kurrajong Park. Any members or supporters of HEN who would like to help out with this year’s event or hold a stall, please contact info@hen.org.au  We need all the help we can get! HEN is doing a call-out to members first. We need sustainable stalls as we wish to hold a zero-waste event.

HEN is sorry to hear from Jim Watson that he will be leaving the Committee at the end of this financial year. Jim has been our treasurer for the last five years and has been a member of HEN for seven years. He has moved to the Blue Mountains and it’s a long way to come to meetings in Windsor! However, we all want to wish Jim all the best and thank him for his years of dedicated service to HEN and the Hawkesbury environment.

As a not-for -profit organisation we depend on membership and donations to fund our on-going operating expenses. Funds are needed to maintain the website, our PO Box and other minor admin costs such as printing flyers for events. You are receiving this newsletter because at some time you have joined HEN or shown your support. We are most appreciative of those members who renew their membership annually (it’s easy via the website).

Please visit our website (below) and look at  HEN Facebook is where many events show up: The latest event which you can book via the FB page is the film 2040 which will show at Penrith Hoyts 1st July. 

Keep in touch and encourage your friends to join up and be part of our campaigns! We are really keen to attract new paying members to HEN.

Our next Committee meeting will be held on Monday 17th June in the Windsor Library Rozzoli Room at 6.30 pm. Paid-up members of HEN are welcome to come along as observers to hear about upcoming events for 2019. Please let us know if you plan to come via info@hen.org.au 
Kind Regards,

Jocelyn Howden
Vice Chair

HEN NEWSLETTER March 2019

April 7, 2019

There is a lot happening this year. The new HEN Committee has started campaigning and working for the  protection of our beautiful Hawkesbury Environment.

[Read more…] about HEN NEWSLETTER March 2019

Wetland update: Green Army have finished their role: now it’s time for Wetland Landcare!

July 24, 2018

How is the knowledge and works on our local wetlands progressing?

Wetland bank vegetation showing relationship of form to site and function. Missing in the diagram are the roots which are key to bank protection.

The map of Bushells Lagoon here shows (orange spots) where HEN and Green Army stages 1-3 began some on-ground works in 2015-2016, which now gives us much more clarity about what to undertake next. We have treated weeds, fenced, planted reeds, trees and shrubs; and learnt a lot..plant ID, bird ID, water tests, carpwatch, assessing damage to banks and how to protect them from erosion…there is much more to learn however!! It was a collaborative operation with WSU, TAFE, Council and Hawkesbury River County Council, as well as Local Land Services and several research students. A new youth team calling themselves Wetland Warriors was formed by the young GA team: despite calls on their time to study or find a job, they have inspired landholders to work together on more wetland protection.Plans are now on the way for workdays to be held at selected sites to continue bank protection and restoration. This is intended to encourage locals around the wetland  to give some of their time to develop a more stable, biodiverse and resilient riparian edge (against wave and carp action) by initially scoping the site and seeing some indicators of issues eg depth, turbidity, exposure, lack of plant roots, lack of woody debris etc; then undertaking planting of selected reeds, shrubs and trees on the day. The two photos taken before and after restoration works shows what can be done by simple means. Please get in touch with HEN Project Co-ordinator for more information about being involved.

Reed beds June 2015. No control on livestock grazing

Same reed beds after fencing to exclude livestock, and introduction of more species of reeds. March 2017

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