{"id":161,"date":"2015-02-17T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/?p=161"},"modified":"2015-03-16T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T22:41:28","slug":"conservation-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/conservation-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people support the idea of nature conservation but perhaps do not know how to turn it into action.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For Earle Norriss \u2013 back in the 1980s as conservation awareness in New Zealand was emerging \u2013 action and education went hand in hand. Earle was a District Science Advisor for the Education Department, based in Nelson. Also, through the Forest &amp; Bird organisation, he was a leader in environmental education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-163 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/earl-norris-today-at-track.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/earl-norris-today-at-track.jpg 600w, https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/earl-norris-today-at-track-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Earle Norriss at the start of the Marsden Valley Memorial Track January 2015. (photo: SmartStory)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Familiar with the Marsden Valley and the way the native bush was being smothered by old man\u2019s beard and banana passionfruit vine, Earle initiated a forest regeneration project. A phone call from Nelson\u2019s well known tree planting couple Waveney and David Bolwell had inspired the idea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trees-before-planting.jpg\" alt=\"Above Native forest reserve in the upper Marsden Valley in the 1980s was dying. Weeds were strangling mature trees and the understorey was all but gone.\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trees-before-planting.jpg 600w, https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trees-before-planting-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above: Native forest reserve in the upper Marsden Valley in the 1980s was dying. Weeds were strangling mature trees and the understorey was all but gone. (photo: DOC 1989\u20131993)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cThe Nelson City Council were right behind the tree-planting project. We called it The Marsden Valley Project. Revegetation, problem plant control and student education in the Marsden Valley was born. Council supplied the grubbers to clear weeds and dig holes and also the trees\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Earle Norriss in 2015 talks about the Conservation Project of the 1980s:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conservation Action\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120323622?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many Nelson school students from the late 1980s will have memories of Marsden Valley tree planting, and in particular the sponsored morning teas of burgers and drinks. Fast food outlets were uncommon in those days.<\/p>\n<h4>Sketch map showing areas planted by participating schools 1989\u20131994:<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/school-planting-map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/school-planting-map1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/school-planting-map1-453x1024.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Returning to the valley today, some students will need to scramble about in the understory of the Memorial Walk to find their school\u2019s name plaque. Other names are right beside existing tracks, while some have disappeared into the undergrowth entirely. A great testament to the school tree planters of 1989\u20131994 who restored a forest and to all those who have maintained it ever since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-164 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marsden-valley-forest-today.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marsden-valley-forest-today.jpg 600w, https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/marsden-valley-forest-today-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More Nelson stories are featured on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprow.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">theprow.org.nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprow.org.nz\/people\/james-marsden-and-his-isel-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\">theprow.org.nz\/people\/james-marsden-and-his-isel-farm\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprow.org.nz\/people\/dick-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\">theprow.org.nz\/people\/dick-roberts\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related SmartStory: <a title=\"Who is Bob?\" href=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/stories\/who-is-bob\/\">Who is Bob?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/NCC_Logo_Landscape_RGB.jpg\" alt=\"NCC_Logo_Landscape_RGB\" width=\"250\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people support the idea of nature conservation but perhaps do not know how to turn it into action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstory.nz\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}