About Devon Rood

Hey y’all!!!!
It’s been so long since I’ve written in here.  I’ll give y’all a little run down of the past week.  Last Monday, we went to Pautahanui and worked with a senior volunteering group.  Almost all of us were assigned tree planted.  We planted a total of 160 trees!!!!  The smaller group was in charge of looking over a pile of burning weeds.  it was an esay, yet satisfying day.
Tuesday, we went to Rimutaka National Forest and checked the stoat line.  It was a pretty successful day-10 rats and 1 stoat.  We all had fun on the long hike.
Wednesday, our [...]

So on Friday we met Jonathan, a local mountain biker and nature conservationist.  We got straight to work…weeding out non-native plant to give the young, native plants room to grow.  After working for about an hour, we had a break for morning tea.  After that, we headed over to a mountain biking trail, where we split up into two groups.  Mckenzie and Jonathan refilled possum poison containers.  The rest of us(Amy, Jamie, Liana, Toby and myself) were given loppas(giant pruners) to help clean the path.  Later, after an hour of clearing the path of superfluous plants, we had another break [...]

Hey ya’ll!!!!
Yesterday, we piled into the van and headed south east to Turakirae beach.  There we met up with DOC(Dept. of Conservation) staff, and were briefed on what we were doing for the day.  While we were there to pick up all kinds of trash, most of it was car parts or broken beer bottles.  WE worked for about two and a half hours.  After our beach cleaning, we headed over to the “driftwood auditorium” to listen to Professor Fraiser( a local professor from the university) talk about geomorphology.  We had a mini-lecture on the geography of the area.  Afterwards, [...]