How will you contribute

The opportunities for volunteers are limitless and every contribution is valued.

What can you do to help?

Contributions so far include;

20000000 combined hours from the committee

trail builders

trail maintainers

the loaning of equipment

managing contractors

scoping new trails

polishing the red tape of beauracy

donations of all kinds – money, materials, time.

Young on the tractor not so young on the rake. Oh well. Photo Credit Shelley Trotter

In the future we need;

All of the above and

tree planters

pest controllers

weed exterminators

bird counters

volunteer coordinators

visionaries

administrators to manage the new beast called Mahurangi Trail Society

ecology evangelists and ecology soldiers

educators

Hard at work at a recent working bee. Photo Credit Shelley Trotter

publicity coordinators

someone to make the morning tea for the volunteers

a photo person to record our labour’s and our successes

a marketing department

Wonderful progress Photo Credit Shelley Trotter

And Maybe

A nursery to grow plants

seed collectors

Not just tracks and trails

At Mahurangi Trail Society we are passionate about not just connecting our communities but about the amazing natural environment that we live in.

Long-finned eel caught above the box culvert before the fish pass installation. Photo Credit Gary Heaven

One of the behind the scenes activities that we have been engaging in is monitoring the fresh water ecology. Also with the help of Whitebait Connection a fish pass has been installed on a perched box culvert on Duck Creek.

Fish Pass at the start of the winter rains. Photo Credit. Shelley Trotter


Native fresh water fish. Kokopu. Photo Credit Gary Heaven