Te Kūiti High School senior students (right) with members of the Brook Park Committee.
Mountain bikers and walkers in Te Kūiti have something new to enjoy in Brook Park.
The Brook park committee have replanted a pond alongside the recreation area’sexisting tracke.
Senior Te Kūiti High School students have lent their strength to the project, helping plant around a pre-existing pond with 300 native seedlings.
“There were five students. They made a very positive contribution, and we all enjoyed having them there,” said Brook Park committee member Elly Kroef.
The work involved about 04ha of land, and will contribute to biodiversity and prevent erosion, she said.
The pond was created by Colin Brook, who had been to Italy and saw how reticulated pond systems supported agriculture there. He later replicated what he had learned at Brook Park.
The area has now been dedicated to the memory of conservationists Arthur and Pat Cowan who planted thousands of trees in the North Island.
Arthur died in 2014, aged 98, and Pat in 2016, aged 86.
The couple farmed at Rewarewa, Ōtorohanga, until the late 1970s and later lived in the Rangitoto area.
