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Puhoi River Park Group
We are a small subgroup of the Puhoi Community Forum formed in October 2025. Following publishing of the EcologicalManagement Plan, the forum wants get implementation started as soon as possible. One of the main aims of the plan is to retire part of the park from its current agricultural use (cattle & sheep grazing) and regenerate associated bush and wetland areas.
What's Happening in the Park?
Picnic in the Park
A lovely free afternoon in the park with local families, music, hoses and eggs. Our volunteer Fire Brigade came along and entertained the kids with their Escape Route blow up, powerful hoses - initially targeted, but devolving into a soaking spectacular as the afternoon sun bore down.Serenaded by excellent local musicians we had sack races, egg and spoon, egg throwing - all the best fun in the sun activities! Sorry you missed it? Its okay, there'll be one next year - check t
Spraying ready for planting
The council's contractors have been in the park spraying kykuyu and blackberry in the wetlend area (near the new fence and along by the culvert), and in the paddock area above the orchard. You'll see that the grass is dying there - please be aware of this with dogs, and don't pick any blackberries etc.
Gated Community
We spent a bucolic morning in the company of the friendly steers in the park. We now have a shiny new gate and a sturdy little side fence. We also battened off more of the wire fence sections - just a couple to go now.
We Got Hammered
Big thanks to all who turned up to help with battening the fence on sunday. Excellent progress made - just a few more sections and we'll be cow-proof.
PoleSpecs Donate Timber
A big thank you to Pole Specs Silverdale for donating the timber for our new fencing. Much appreciated guys.
Posts Are In!
A big thank you to Local Board representative Paul Manton and team who came out with a tractor and drove the strainers and posts for our new dividing fence . This will allow us to segregate the stock into the more suitable pastural areas of the park while we start or weed control and regeneration projects. Next step is to complete the fence with wiring, battens and gate hardware. Superb work, thanks Paul
Photo Points
We'll be taking photos from marked points on the regenerating areas at regular intervals to show our progress
Preparing For Planting
As soon as our new fence is in place to prevent access by stock, we can start preparing for planting. The first job is an initial spray to tackle kykuyu growth in the planting areas. A second spray just before planting in will ensure the shrubs can get a foothold before the invasive grass smothers them again
Replanting
Over then next few years we hope to regenerate the bush in the park. We'll be looking for volunteers to help planting a weeding programs, and ,where possible allowing natural regrowth to occur. We've divided the park into different areas to stage our approach.
Perimeter Trail
A long standing plan after we completed the riverside track was to continue it on back up to the ridge to join the Te Aroroa track, This effectivively completes a perimeter loop around the park making it a decent length trail with a variety of interesting points along the way, returning the Puhoi. Our current rough plan is to push a low gradient track, zig-zagging to keep the going easy up the steep slope. Current the vegetation is very thick with kikuyu and other weeds - th
New fencing
One of our first projects will be to build a new fence in the park. This will divide off the flat land which, which will continue to be used for grazing, from the regenerating area of wetland and bush.
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