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Walk in the Park tomorrow

It’s looking like great weather forecast for our Walk in the Park at 10:30am tomorrow. 
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a gorgeous sunny day with light winds, and a maximum temperature of 27 degrees.
Hope to see you there!
Don’t forget, with such a great day, you can follow up the Walk in the Park by attending [...]

Walk In The Park 2010

 
Come one, come all to this year’s Walk In The Park on Sunday 14th March @ 10:30am to show your support for retention of this land as public open space for the entire community!
 
This year’s walk will be particularly important because just as the Minister is sitting down to read the recommendations of the taskforce, [...]

Council investment in parkland

An estimate from Moreland City Council indicates an annual maintenance investment of $50K/yr, in addition to the capital works investments of $600K over the years.
This, of course, does not include any of the grant funds received by the community for the purposes of community planting.
It’s clear the community and Council are investing good money into [...]

Brochure to distribute

Thanks to some amazing efforts by dedicated volunteers supporting the MECPG we now have a fantastic tri-fold brochure detailing the virtues of the parkland and the ongoing benefits to the community and ecosystem. If you’ve got a colour printer you might like to include it when writing to your local political representatives at local [...]

Arguments for retention

ECOLOGICAL
The significance of this reserve corridor has an ecological perspective. For example, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (2006) Atlas of Victorian Wildlife records 48 fauna species within 1.5km of the Kodak Bridge over Edgar’s Creek. Approx 280 trees already exist on the site. Included in the parkland are areas of remnant vegetation.
OPEN SPACE
There [...]