WETLAND EXTREME TEAM

WETLAND EXTREME TEAM
The Wetland Extreme Team are eighteen Year 7 and 8 students from St Joseph's Waitara School in Taranaki, New Zealand. Our names are James, Tayla, Steven, Louise ,Madison, Isaac, Francis, Gabriel, Rose, P.J, Terina, Jamie, Iyarna, Che-Leigh, Cody, Matthew, Connor and Hayden. We will be blogging about the history, current research and future ideas for the schools wetland. All of which is hoped will make the wetland more interactive and fun for everyone to enjoy.

Working to help W.E.T achieve the mission is 60 Springs Environmental Educator Nathan Hills. 60 Springs is based at Puke Ariki and run in partnership with Shell Exploration New Zealand Limited and the Taranaki Regional Council.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

June 26th 2011: Plant detectives pointing out some drainage problems



Plant detectives went for a walk through the wetland during a spell in the rain and looked at a few problems in the wetland.
The problems were:
A) Water is getting close to the path
B) One corner of the school field is still boggy
C) A few more trees needed to be planted to make sure fruit and flowers are in the wetland for animals all year round)
D)Some of the flaxes and toitoi are starting to grow over the walking path and need to be moved
E) The concrete stepped paths and wooden seats are dissappearing as the plants get bigger

Due to be added soon is a map showing the problem areas. The Detectives have come up with some solutions and will run these past key staff in the school before they put the plan into action.
PS We might need a few extra pairs of hands!

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