Rangiwahia Scenic Reserve
The Rangiwahia Community Committee aims to fundraise for more stoat traps & materials for maintaining the track and improving signage.
Manawatu / Whanganui
The reserve is a 130-acre remnant of the bush that used to cover the region in pre-European times and is home to a large variety of ancient native trees and native birds.
There are now two well-defined and well-marked walking tracks within the reserve, which are primarily for pest-control projects but are able to be walked by the public. They are The Reserve Track and The Reserve-Lookout Track. We support the Department of Conservation's Predator-Free 2050 principles.
Access is straightforward with the car park situated 200 meters down Mangoira Street, off Rangiwahia Road and just south of Rangiwahia Village.
The Rangiwahia Community Committee takes pest control within the reserves very seriously and continues to support the volunteers undertaking this project to rid the reserve of pests to allow birdlife to flourish and protect trees such as the northern rata from possum damage.
Tree labels mark specimens along the Reserve Track.
Information signs and maps are placed along the longer Reserve-Lookout Track.
The committee wishes to raise funds for 20 more stoat traps for The Reserve-Lookout Track, materials for maintaining the track, such as rope for safety on steeper sections, steel standards for the information signs within the reserve and a larger information sign for visitors at the car park.
Use of funds
The funds will be spent on:
1. Purchasing 20 Trapinator Stoat cages containing DOC200 traps plus accessories, such as bait lure.
2. An information sign at the car park.
3. Materials such as steel standards for information signs
4. Rope
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Your Donations Well Spent 25 February 2023
We are delighted to report the money you have all generously donated has been used in the Rangiwahia Scenic Reserve to purchase materials for rope rails. Steel standards with safety caps, twisted shackles and rope have been used to create rails in steeper sections of the reserve providing more secruity for those walking the tracks. We have had some really nice comments in our visitor's book. Take a look at this link to see some of the comments. https://www.irongates.co.nz/visitor-comments.html
We continue with the pest control programme and have purchased a few more traps through a local funding source.
Over Christmas, Steve and one of son's spotted a white fantail in the reserve. We read up about the white fantails on line, and they may be considered a positive sign of reduced predators as mentioned in the article. "Fantails are fast breeders and have short lifespans... and would be far more common if not for introduced predators. White birds could be easier to spot, making them even more vulnerable than other members of a species without genetic variations".
So it is encouraging to know that our ongoing pest-control programme within the reserve is perhaps reaping some special rewards.
I have attached a photo of a section of rope rail.
Plus a link to the Rangiwahia Scenic Reserve Face Book Page for photos of the white fantail.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=rangiwahia%20scenic%20reserve
So again, we thank you all so much for your generosity and be rest assured your donations have been used to improve the safety of the tracks in one of Rangiwhia's beautiful reserves.
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