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The Livingstone Remnant Vegetation Study Group  
The Livingstone Remnant Vegetation Study Group was formed by volunteers about 10 years ago to collect flora specimens, collect and collate relevant data and undertake native flora restoration projects in the Capricorn Coast area, the Lammermoor Native Gardens was the first of these projects and illustrates what can be achieved by perseverance and hard work.
 
 
Part of the nursery established and maintained by RemVeg at the Rockhampton Regional Council's Cordingley St. Depot. The volunteer in the photo is attending to the breeding enclosure for Carvalhotingis visenda, a leaf sucking tingid bug introduced as a biological control for Cat's Claw Creeper.
 
The seed raising section of the nursery draws on the seeds of hundreds of native species RemVeg volunteers have collected over the years, the seedlings above will be potted out to maintain the supply of more than 60,000 native plants provided annually for revegetation projects in the Capricorn Coast area.
 
 
Contacts;
Barbara Tyson
email; barbara.tyson@rrc.qld.gov.au
Mobile; 0438149460
Paul Bambrick
email; paulthegreenie@hotmail.com
Phone; 49394401
 
 
A not very glamorous part of RemVeg activities is the removal of rubbish from target areas, the material in the above photo is part of what was collected in a morning from the dunes behind Farnborough Beach, the rubbish was dumped there by locals with an appalling attitude towards the environment.
 
In this section of the nursery plants are maturing prior to being used in a range of native garden and revegetation projects undertaken by community groups including schools, Landcare groups, developers and others.
     
     
Other services provided by the RemVeg group;
Volunteers maintain an herbarium which is a collection of preserved plant specimens, these specimens may be whole plants or plant parts usually be in a dried form, to preserve their form and color plants collected in the field are spread flat on sheets of newsprint and dried between blotters or absorbent paper. The specimens are then mounted on sheets of stiff white paper and labeled with all essential data, such as date and place found, description of the plant, altitude, and special habitat conditions. These collections are used to catalogue or identify the flora of an area and are essential for the study of plant taxonomy.
A seed bank is kept under refrigeration to provide the nursery with viable seeds for propagation in the nursery and as a hedge against environmental disaster.
The group publishes a number of books ranging from a mammoth resume of local species to pamphlets relating to specific issues.