Programme Secretary needed
We are urgently in need of a volunteer to take on the role
of Programme Secretary. It is an important post which
entails organising and producing our annual meetings
programme.
Please contact Mary Smith or Del Smith if you are
interested or if you require further information.
REMINDER! BOOK VERY SOON if you have
not already done so. An evening not to miss!
THE CHARLES WATSON MEMORIAL VIDEO PRESENTATION
My Marshland Year - presented by Bob Reed
Frid 13th October 2006. 8.00pm.
Wetland nature reserves rapidly deteriorate unless intensively managed to keep open drains,
prevent the accumulation of dead reeds and sedge, and control the invasion of osiers and sallows.
Bob Reed's riveting video of the way that Andrew Sapsford's team go about managing the joint
Herts, and Essex Trusts' Sawbridgeworth Marsh reserve all year round, using modern and
traditional tools, is a must for anyone interested in nature conservation or involved in wetland
management. Bob also documents in incredibly vivid close-up, the rich flower, bird and underwater
life that responds so spectacularly to this intensive management.
Buy a ticket! Come and see this super video and support our efforts to establish a Biodiversity
Centre, a resource for all wildlife enthusiasts in the region. Charles Watson not only studied the
wildlife and worked for many years on the Sawbridgeworth Marsh Reserve, - just a few days
before he died he visited Rainham Hall to see if it would fulfil our dreams as a venue for our
Biodiversity Centre.
Venue: Hall of the Blessed Sacrament Church. Melbourne Avenue (north side). Chelmsford.
Tickets £4.00. in aid of the Essex Field Club Biodiversity Centre Project.
Tickets available from Ken Adams, 63 Wroths Path, Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex. IG10 1SH.
020 8508 7863 or Shirley Watson, 18 Thorley Park Road, Bishops
Stortford. Herts. CM23 3NQ. 01279 505309.
Essex Field Club Newsletter No. 51, September 2006
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