DIVISION 11 COUNCIL REPORT

John Scott Park –SEEKING FEEDBACK

In response to multiple requests to Council to have a gate installed at John Scott Park on the entrance to the park facing Station Street, I am now seeking feedback from the broader community to ascertain the level of support or otherwise to this proposal. (Image indicates gate position)

Concerns have been raised in regard to the close proximity that this entrance has to the carpark and road (Station Street). Consideration needs to be given to the safety of children and families using the playground, the existing BBQ and seating area at this location, access to the playground for people with disabilities and parents with prams, the ongoing maintenance costs to Council to service the gate and any amenity impacts that a gate may have.

I am seeking your feedback regarding the proposal to have a gate installed at John Scott Park on the Station Street side only (noting all other access points to the playground will remain without a gate and fully accessible). If you would like to provide feedback, please email me at darren.grimwade@moretonbay.qld.gov.au

LOCAL LAWS CONSULTATION (Round 8)

Public consultation has commenced for the proposed Signs Local Law and will go through to 25 June 2023. This is a topic that I regularly receive feedback on from residents. Issues such as signs blocking footpaths, signs on trees and fences or on the side of the road. What Council is trying to achieve with this latest consultation is making it easier for residents, businesses and community groups or clubs to understand how and where they can advertise events or services, by creating two clear categories for signs that will be regulated under the Law. Self-assessable signs that won’t require formal approval provided that they meet minimum conditions; and licensable signs that will require formal approval. Signs play an important role in the region, they are a great way to get the word out, but we need to make sure they do not impact public or road safety or amenity. Go to yoursay. moretonbay.qld.gov.au and provide your feedback.

Cr Darren Grimwade

Samford Rangers

Winter football camp

Tuesday 27th - Thursday 29th June 2023

Football day camp for U6's- U13's girls and boys, all skill levels

8.30am sign in and 3.30pm pick up

Building on the success of the Autumn camp, James and the team have designed an expanded programme of football skill development sessions and fun football themed activities Register now to ensure your child's place

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$80 per child per day, $150 per child for 2 days, or $210 per child for 3 days 10% family discount for 2 or more children

Registration closes Friday 23rd June, or earlier if numbers approach available Coaching/ child ratios.

For more info and to register visit www samfordrangers org au

FINDING LIFE’S GOOD STUFF

We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t experience sadness and disappointment at some time in our lives. Admittedly, some people have more than their fair share of tragedy and grief, but life isn’t fair, is it? What do we do with the challenges life hurls at us? Here is one person’s journey.

When The Good Stuff Ideas Forum started at the SCHUB, the aspiration was to discuss positive concepts. The initiator of this had faced an unspeakable family tragedy. She said, ‘Good stuff happened before. Good stuff will happen again. The bad stuff is now woven into the tapestry of life. You don’t get closure. You don’t get over it. You cradle it gently and respectfully – not letting it define who you are.’

After the horror, she wasn’t the same as she had been before. As shock subsided, she questioned the values she had lived by all her life and was scared by the angry person she was becoming. Counselling, love and collaboration with family, along with incredible community support helped her get through, but something else began to emerge: she began to see that there is beauty and hope in small moments. Over time, she gave herself permission to be open to love, growth and healing.

As leader of the discussion group, she helped the participants uncover new perspectives on ideas like friendship, honour, love, belonging and resilience, though sometimes less positive aspects have been revealed. The challenge has been how to find the “light” in the idea.

For example, while exploring Carpe Diem, the group knew the modern Hollywood interpretation of the phrase: ‘seize the day’. Australian philosopher Roman Krznaric points out that “Seizing” invokes images of people taking what they can get in an instant-gratification-obsessed consumer culture. However, the original meaning of Carpe Diem is to ‘pluck’ the day, like gathering flowers. In simple terms, it means to enjoy and make the most of each moment.

As the group dug deeper into the idea of Carpe Diem the ‘light’ or insight came from a cancer survivor. We should be aware of the uniqueness and beauty of every moment in life. Past and future are only relevant in how they relate to the present moment. What a privilege it was to sit around the table that day.

Through our discussions we have discovered each other’s stories and responded mostly with empathy. We are learning to see the world in a more positive way through discussion and reading. If you would like to join us, The Good Stuff Ideas Forum takes place at the SCHUB from 3pm on the last Friday of each month.

Julie Martin

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Pilates Lifestyle and Wellbeing

Four weeks to go to the end of our first Beginners Course for this year. We will continue these Beginners Classes in Term 3 of this year and welcome any new clients interested in understanding and enjoying Pilates exercises.

Feedback from our current Beginners clients has been very favourable, from all accounts they are feeling the benefits of both the Mat and the Reformer work. They appreciate and understand how the Mat work assists the greater challenging work to be experienced on the Reformers.

The next 10 week Beginners Course will run from Monday 10th July to Saturday 16th September. Our Beginners package of 20 classes for $450.00 plus a gift from us will again be available. To sign up and book your classes please see our timetable of Beginners Classes running on a Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday at www. pilateslifestyle.com.au

Our long term clients continue to extend themselves into the varied Pilates repertoire work whilst enjoying our friendly relaxed atmosphere in the quiet surrounds of The Country Traders Centre.

For further information contact Dorothy on 0432 269 472.

Samford Museum

Show time is fast approaching and exhibitors will be checking schedules against their growing gardens.

Gardening for food production has been a priority for residents of Samford and surrounding districts from the earliest days of settlement. Both Melva A Welch and Brian Hansford in their respective publications Bergin Beauty, pub 2014, and The Elusive Archibald Young, pub 2016, mention Samford Run homestead’s well stocked garden.

From stories recorded in Samford Reminiscences Vols 1-6 and unpublished and in newspaper articles (trove newspapers) of the 1920s & 30s we learn how important vegetable production was to the local economy. Several examples follow.

In 1913, George Brown was planting potatoes when the bush nurse delivered his wife a daughter; loadings at Samford (railway station) for Melbourne during August 1923, included 585 cases tomatoes, 191 cases beans, 3 cases peas, 2 cases squash, 2 cases marrows.

1930: A special line of peas arrived from the Samford district and being of a special class in well-filled bags, brought 11/6d per bag.

1932: A shapely line of Carmens (potatoes) from Samford cleared at 5/7d.

In the 1930s, Sterns grew tomatoes and peas at Highvale. ‘Dad sat me in the shade under a tree and gave me a little bucket of peas to shell and eat while he worked. Mum used to pack the peas into sugar bags for market. One day she lost her wedding ring; it must have gone in a bag of peas. ...’

During the 1940s Philip (Binks) Walker and his family were small crop farming on part of Herron’s Closeburn property. Seeds and packaging costs recorded in Phillip’s diary notes - ¼ bushell of bean seeds 17/6d

(approx. 6.5 Kgs cost $1.75); 2 ½ ozs tomato seeds 8/3d - (almost 71gms cost 83cents). Packaging -2 dozen sugar bags 9/- (24 sugar bags cost 90c); 1 hank sewing twine 1/9d (a hank could be approx 25 metres long and cost 19c). Phillip took the vegetables to Closeburn Railway Station in a horse drawn cart to meet the goods train.

For more small crops stories please visit the Samford Museum Wednesday or Sunday 10am-4pm. Copies of all 6 Vols of Samford Reminiscences as well as Bergin Beauty and The Elusive Archibald Young are on sale at the museum. Contact email: info@ samfordmuseum.com.au or phone President Geoff 0417 610 983.

More Planting

Bushcare

On Sunday 7 May, a small contingent of very productive and enthusiastic volunteers (all members of Native Plants Qld) planted, mulched and watered around 100 trees and shrubs on the top of the riverbank along the Eco-Trail beyond the powerlines. We started work much earlier than usual to carry out some initial weeding of the area and ensure plants were laid out before the water tank arrived. Even a brief unexpected shower didn’t slow proceedings, with the last plant going in the ground just before 4pm, after which everyone enjoyed afternoon tea kindly provided by Karen Reid of the SDPPA.

There has been a longer than normal gap until the next working bee (because Mother’s Day falls on the second Sunday), so on 11 June we will need many more hands on deck from 2pm to 4pm to ensure we stay on top of emerging weeds in the older revegetation zones as well as around our young trees in the more recent riverbank plantings. New volunteers welcome, who will be briefed by a MBRC environmental officer on site.

Bird survey

During our latest monthly bird survey on 3 May, our birdwatchers recorded 60 species, which is impressive at this transitional time of year. Winter visitors included Spotted Pardalotes, two Rose Robins and numerous Grey Fantails (although a few of these would be resident). It is good to see the numbers of the woodland birds recovering 4 years after they were decimated in the summer of

2019/20 bushfires. Other highlights included seeing all three local finches feeding on grass seeds (Double-barred and Red-browed Finches and Chestnut-breasted Mannikin). Waterbirds were on the move with both Little Black and Little Pied Cormorants both flying over.

The Samford Eco-Corridor is a project of the SDPPA

Albeit at late notice, the Library joined the Millen Farm weekend markets as part of the Samford Edible Garden Trail in May.

Saturday was a beautiful day and the markets were hugely busy. It was a lovely social day with lots of interest in the cookbooks, plants, home baking and the preserves. Sunday was a totally different story. The morning started with light winds increasing to wind gusts, with one especially sneaky wind gust clearing goods off several stall tables. Due to safety concerns, all the marquee vendors were shut down.

One lovely family took advantage of the shelter provided by the trailer to enjoy a picnic, while waiting for Costa to show up.

Thanks to the Library trailer, goods of books, plants, cakes and preserves were all able to be easily protected from any effects of the windy day. The Library crew stayed until 2pm, when inbound visitors had mostly ceased.

All in all, the two days were a huge success for fundraising and the dollar target achieved. Many thanks to Millen Farm for the initiative in holding the markets for the first time. One suggestion was for the weekly Ferny Grove markets, which have been moved to Chermside since being removed from the Ferny Grove Train Station, be continued on the Samford Parklands site instead.

In other news, the Library trailer is away having the canopy cover fabricated. Completion date is expected to be mid-June.

In the meantime, Samford Area Mens Shed steelies have also designed the frame for the generator and fridge to sit on the trailer A frame. Fabrication and fitting of the frame will take place on the trailer’s return. Although all the boxes of Keepers books are now in one place, shelving of the books is yet to take place in the containers, as some prior sorting is completed. A few more small steps forward for the Library.

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The Cedar Creek Public Hall has been a hive of activity over the past month! We were overjoyed with the offer from local resident and film Director Randall Wood to host the Flyways film at our May TGIF. The untold journey of the migratory shorebirds, a visually stunning and insightful film highlighting the importance of saving habitat to protect our wildlife from extinction. If you have not had the chance to see Flyways, we encourage you to attend a screening.

Winter has arrived at TGIF and we are warming the event up with our fabulous fire pits! Over the past 12 months we have seen many new faces attend Thank Goodness it’s Friday (TGIF) and lots of regulars returning and we want to thank everyone for joining in this monthly event.

The donated sweets have been a real delight and we have seen many people at TGIF pitch in with packing up at the end of the event and jumping on the BBQ to assist with cooking, as well as helping out in the kitchen. This shows a real community spirit and in the fast paced world we live in, a real treat to see everyone coming together. We hope to see you at our next event on 30th June.

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Friday At The Schub Opportunity Knocks

Winston Churchill once said, ‘A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty’.

Jenni Guse, one of our locals who seizes every opportunity offered, is leading a discussion in The Good Stuff Ideas Forum on OPPORTUNITY and how it influences our lives. Come along on June 30th at the SCHUB at 3.00pm ish. Jenni, who has been heavily involved in community activity since moving here many moons ago, is a linguist, sustainable farmer, writer, teacher, reader, accomplished musician, mother and wife. She has found, even in the most dreadful of life’s challenges, an incredibly positive outlook which she helps others to discover. Through an exploration of literature, poetry and experience, she enlivens these monthly discussions.

Crafting Kindness is on 9th June at 2.00pm. Mother and daughter team, Jean (95) and Lois (21 and some months) have been knitting madly to contribute to our next load of warm gear to go to Caboolture. Come along to knit, crochet and chat over a cuppa. Wool and needles provided. Giving to others is the greatest art there is.

Lottie Cole, extraordinary gardener and long-time volunteer, planting and weeding at the Eco-corridor, is going to take us on a gentle walk around the great work Peter Storer and his team have done to rehabilitate this lovely area on 16th June at 2.30pm. If you are into indigenous native plants or watching our incredible birdlife this is a must. Bring some food to share and a drink, your favourite closed gardening shoes and your broadbrim hat.

As winter descends, many of us who are north of a certain age, begin to have one or two twinges and creaks. On 23rd June starting at 3 ish, we will partake in a series of gentle movement activities, led by Robert, that will help our bodies cope.

Julie Martin

Cub Scout Receives Highest Award

Samford Cub Scout Wyatt Crane has been awarded the coveted Grey Wolf Award, the highest award a Cub Scout can receive. To achieve his award, Wyatt had to complete a number of achievement badges covering areas such as first aid, cooking, canoeing, community involvement, bushcraft and camping. Not all easy to do and it required a lot of dedication.

Samford Scout Group Leader David Reed said, “Wyatt has excelled within the Cub Scout program and shown to be everything that we admire in a Cub Scout. Always enjoying adventure, Wyatt never gives up and is always a willing participant in every activity.”

“He is very active also and can do anything he puts his mind to. I am looking forward to seeing where his journey takes his as he moves up to the Scout Unit.”

Wyatt received his Grey Wolf Award at a recent ceremony at Samford Scout Den, during which he reaffirmed his Cub Scout Promise and got to share with his fellow Cub Scouts the largest celebration cake he has ever eaten.

Also occurring on the same night was the Samford Scout Annual Report Presentation which covered the many activities run throughout the year. With over 200 members and parents linked to the Scout Group, there is always strong interest in having young people enjoy adventure and get skills for life.

If you are interest in your child joining Scouts and making new friends, contact David Reed at the Samford Scout Group on 3040 6400 or via www.samfordscouts. com.au.

Samford Bowls Club

Our Ladies ‘President at Home’ day held on Monday 29th May was a great success. Ladies President Lesley (not a person to look for attention) was bowled over with the support she received to hold this important day. There is always a solid amount of work before the day to make sure everything runs smoothly and Lesley is just the person to oversee that it all happens. Her quiet but calm disposition keeps everyone on the same page.

Teams came from Windsor, Chermside, Red Hill, Aspley, Northern Suburbs, Everton Park, Ferny Grove and a team representing the Brisbane District Bowls Association. Five teams from Samford completed the teams. The club house sparkled with the red and white table theme and the multi colours of the many different uniforms and bowls on the greens added to this great day of bowling, made even better with the superb autumn weather. Our thanks to Belle Property for sponsoring this important day and the club volunteers for their support.

Mac Patterson Shield second round was played at Woodford Bowls Club on May

25th. Dayboro bowlers won on the day with Samford a close second. The next round will be played at Kilcoy on June 22nd. These games are always hotly contested but in the friendliest way and to be chosen to play for your club is highly sort after.

The Pennant Season will soon be here. The forms are up on the board and selectors are checking out the names that are going on the lists. Our men and ladies will be entering teams for mid-week (ladies) and Saturday competitions.

Our first Rapid Fire Pairs afternoon for 2023 was played on Saturday 3rd June. A BBQ started the afternoon before some hotly contested competition. Great prizes for the winners (and the not quite winners) and a bigger than usual raffle completed a pleasurable afternoon of bowls.

Sunday 11th June. Golden Valley Mixed 4 Medley. This day of bowls will bring out the competitiveness in all that play. Why? They are playing for MONEY!

Club competitions are played each week with Pam Campbell defeating Jeff Himstedt in round one of Open Singles. Jeff played some superb bowls, but Pam was on fire, able to weave her way into the jack to win more ends and the higher score.

OUT & ABOUT

In the semi-final of the Ladies 2 Bowl Triples, Jan Williams (lead), Andrea Rhind (2nd) and Janice Ridley (skip) defeated Marg Evans (lead), Dale Holland (2nd) and Desley Broad (skip).

For lovers of lawn bowls - the Australian Open will be played at the Gold Coast June 10th – 23rd. Unfortunately we don’t have any Samford bowlers participating this year but it will still be worth watching!

T’was the Night before Christmas, a murder mystery play. Sunday 23rd July at the club. Seated by 11.15am, Play starts 11.30am sharp. Finish 4pm. $20pp includes lunch. Contact Desley 0475 420 900. General enquiries: info@samfordbowls. com.au. Janice Ridley

Coastal Rosemary

Coastal rosemary (Westringia fructicosa), as its name suggests, is naturally found in coastal regions. It is endemic to NSW but has become naturalised in Queensland where it grows on sand dunes, cliff faces and in the heavier shale-enriched soils of dune forests and woodlands. It also has a similar appearance, although the leaves do not have a strong aroma, to true rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) to which it is closely related.

Westringia fructiosa have small, simple leaves that form a whorl around the stem. They are hairy, giving them an attractive silvery sheen, and blue-green to grey-green in colour. The solitary flowers have five petals of varying size, fused at their base, and are heavily clustered in the leaf axils. The colour of the flowers ranges from pale mauve to white with orange to purple spots in the throat of the petals. Native and exotic bees as well as butterflies, other insects and small birds are attracted to the flowers which, in warm regions, flower throughout the year.

Although less flamboyant than bottlebrush, grevillea and banksia, Coastal Rosemary is a versatile plant that can be used as a formal hedge or topiary, a path border, an ornamental shrub, an expansive ground cover or in box gardens or containers. It will retain a healthy, bushy appearance for many years but benefits from regular tip pruning. In garden conditions it can reach a height of 2m and width of 1.5m but can be pruned to the required size. It will grow in a range of soils as long as they are well drained and in full sun. Since they will survive on steep northern and western sites, they provide a useful buffer for more tender plants in exposed regions. Once established, these plants tolerate drought, heat, humidity, wind, cold and slight frost. Pests and diseases never seem to trouble this species.

There are a number of different cultivars and hybrids of the 25 different species of Westringia endemic to Australia. ‘Zena’ and ‘Blue Gem’ are low-growing forms about a 1m tall whilst ‘Wynyabbie Gem’ is a medium shrub that makes a good screening plant.

Learn more at Paten Park Native Nursery. www.ppnn.org.au

On 18th June the club will host a cross country training day. This will showcase the long awaited, completed cross country course which has been designed and built on the club grounds. It will feature a water jump, creek crossing and multiple complex jumping obstacles to challenge the cross country competitor. We look forward to being able to host more events utilising this course in future years to come.

Elsa and Evelyn (pictured) have been busy working on gaining their qualifications to compete at the Pony Club Qld State Dressage, Combined Training and Horse Trials in Toowoomba in early July.

Caitlyn, Charlotte, Lily, Ella, Charlie, Lily, Pip, Maddie and Claire will also join them. Great riding SGVPC team. Next Muster 8am, 11th June. All welcome.

Pictured: Evelyn and Elsa at Southport Pony Club, Gold Coast with some fantastic results.

A successful season for the SPADEwerx production of Agatha Christie’s “The Hollow” is all but over with just the Dayboro show on June 10 to go. Most of the shows were sold out and received glowing reports from those who attended. I wonder what will be next.

On June 2nd Hillbrook Anglican School at Enoggera celebrated its’ Founders Day. Every Founders Day the students each receive a cupcake, that’s over 900 cupcakes. Samford Divine Delights supplied the cupcakes and a team of volunteers gathered in the Parish Hall to ice them. (pictured).

June is Arts Trail month in Samford and as mentioned in the last issue, a group of artists will be displaying their works in the Parish Hall every weekend throughout June. And remember - in order to accommodate Samford Art Trail, “All Things Nice” has been moved into the church with its preloved clothing. It is fortunate that we have enough room in the church to accommodate All Things Nice and our regular congregations. Regular Sunday Services: 7:30am and 9am. Motorcycle ride group gathers at Samford AMPOL on the first Saturday of the month for an 8:30am or 9am departure. Destinations vary and riders of all experience levels are welcome.

SPYs – St Paul’s Youth: 3rd Friday of the month, 6pm-9pm for an evening which always includes food and a craft activity. Samford Valley Markets: 2nd Saturday of the month, 7am – Midday.

All Things Nice: Mondays 9am – midday, Parish hall.

Robert Paget Priest in Charge

Female Football Week

Samford Rangers FC recently participated in Female Football Week, which is a celebration of Australian women’s football. This year’s theme is #LoveOurGame, encouraging all participants (players, coaches, and officials) to embrace their love for the world game and its positive impacts.

Rangers hosted a mid-week training session for our female players of all ages, including skills exercises, game-based trainin, and fun games, led by our team of senior players and coaches. More than 90 of our female players took part, and the evening concluded with a sausage sizzle for all players and families.

Rangers are proud of the growing level of female participation across all levels of the club, from our Miniroos players (starting at 3-years) to our currently undefeated senior women’s team, with a former Matilda as captain and mentor. We are fortunate to also have a strong female presence on our committee and in many important roles within the club.

A few years ago, the club set itself a target of having at least one all girls team in every age group of Miniroos and Juniors, and a clear pathway into both social and competitive senior female football. Whilst not quite there yet, we are very close, and will continue to invest to grow our female participation. Female football at Rangers is led by a dedicated Director of Female Football, a Women’s and Girls Ambassador, a Female Development Officer and a strong support group of coaches, team managers and club volunteers and staff.

With the FIFA Women’s World Cup just around the corner, there’s no better time to harness the power of football to build an inclusive and diverse game that embraces and elevates women and girls and supports them to own and drive the future of women’s football.

Rangers is actively engaged with local schools and will be hosting ‘come and try days’ towards the end of the year to give girls (and boys) the opportunity to come down and have a kick! If you are keen to get involved, please send an email to dofw@ samfordrangers.org.au

One of the unique features of Samford Valley Steiner School, and the Steiner pedagogy in general, is its focus on practical, project-based learning. If students are doing, they are more engaged, more responsible for their outcomes and are working in the collaborative manner which the 21st Century world demands of our alumni today. We are always looking for practical ways to teach our subjects and support our students learning, beyond the abstract theory they meet in the classroom. This can sometimes be an extremely difficult task, especially in such topics as mathematics, which are inherently abstract concepts at the more advanced levels.

This year, our Class 10 students have studied their Ancient Cultures and Surveying Main Lessons in a combined opportunity to fuse the subjects of history and mathematics into a practical and tangible experience. This is a great example of holistic education and demonstrates how we need not always compartmentalise learning into neat boxes.

The students began their experience in the classroom, learning some archaeological principles, discovering the timeline of the Earth and, more pertinently, the evolution of our ancestors to where we are today. We investigated early technology, how different cultures around the world were shaped by their environment, the Neolithic Revolution and of course discussed the concept of Civilisation and how one could separate the concepts of civilisation and culture, if indeed one ever can. We are so fortunate to live in a country with one of the oldest, still living, indigenous cultures in the world, and a lot of time was spent learning about the Yolngu people of North Arnhem Land and comparing and contrasting their beliefs and living practices to those of other cultures including modern western culture.

After this very cerebral introduction, we changed tack and went on camp. We were hosted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in their Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) in Camp Mountain. You do not have to go far to have a rich experience, and the students spent two weeks here on a residential camp, mapping a parcel of QUT land to support their tertiary research.

During this work we inquired: How did people manage before maps? How were great ancient structures built? What surveying and measuring techniques were possible throughout history?

We learned more about the technology of the Ancient Babylonians who created the 360-degree circle and how this described and influenced our current measurement of time, time zones and the coordinates system of latitude and longitude. The students witnessed shadow sticks, a working southern-hemisphere astrolabe (an instrument thought to have been developed around 250 BCE) and measured the angle of true north from the sun using theodolite projection techniques.

Many of the students dubbed this ‘math camp’ as they learned to use optical theodolites to identify accurate grid points in the area, and then used tacheometry techniques to pinpoint features onto their map. Angles were measured to an accuracy of 4 decimal places, work was checked, and errors investigated.

This learning experience moved forward, including a short camp to Girraween, learning off-track navigation and the reading of topographic maps. At QUT they were observing the land and taking abstract mathematical data from it. Then in the bush, they had to use a 2D diagrammatic representation of the world to inform their 3D perspective, identifying the features in front of them to decide which way to go. We then returned to the school where the students returned to the data they took from their time at SERF, and each created their own map of the space surveyed. The concept of mapping, laying grids and reading angles… all the trigonometry… it suddenly falls into place as a northreferenced, professional map springs off the page in front of them.

When complete, a final copy (physical and digital) of the map will be presented to QUT for use with their tertiary students’ research into the fauna occupation of dead standing trees in remnant forest. This has been a wonderful, holistic and fulfilling experience for the students, enabling them to engage in practical, real word experiences that support their curriculum learning and the staff involved all feel honoured to have been a part of it.

We are very grateful to the staff and institution of QUT, especially Marcus Yates and Lorelle Graham who manage the facility, and to Dr David Tucker, landscape ecologist, who took time out of his schedule to share his work with the students and who will ultimately be using the map they produce.

Andy Currey

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