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Golden Bay High School student Clara Struck carefully plants a sedge (Carex secta). She is with 14 other GBHS students doing the same (see banner image).
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Before the earthworks, clearing and planting it looked like this.
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Diggers created ponds in what was a boggy part of the paddock.
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They are planting the edges of a newly constructed wetland on the Berkett’s dairy farm in Golden Bay.
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The little stream from the wetland flows into Berkett Creek, then into Powell Creek and down into the Motupipi River.
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Thousands of trees are getting planted all along the banks of the river and its tributaries by landowners, volunteers and local student groups.
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The yellow triangle is the new Berkett’s wetland. The orange triangle is the site where the sediment was removed from the Motupipi River.