Posts by Chris Cobern
UGLN Green Army October Update
The team have had another very productive month. The weed control season has started so they have been working through areas of the Yea Wetlands drilling and poisoning large Willows, Desert Ash and Hawthorn and cut & painting the smaller woody weeds and also re-commenced the holly control project in Narbethong and woody weed control…
Read MoreGreen Army Project 2
Our second Green Army project has commenced and over the next 5 months this group of local young people will again be working throughout the Upper Goulburn region on environmental restoration projects on public and private land. The first month was busy planting at many sites including the rail trail at Kanumbra and Limestone, the…
Read MoreUGLN Lorax Project 2016
The Upper Goulburn Landcare Networks revegetation ‘Lorax Project’ has finished for another year after a very successful year of tree planting throughout the Murrindindi Shire. This year 229 volunteers from NAB, ANZ, JBWere, St Michael’s Grammar, Yea High School with the assistance of members of the Kinglake, Flowerdale and Strath…
Read MoreUGLN Green Army – Project 1
Our first 6 month Green Army project is now completed and it has been a great success. The Green Army has been a valuable resource for our landcare groups and the Murrindindi Shire and has made a real difference to our natural environment. Over the past six months the…
Read MoreUGLN Green Army – May update
The team have had another productive month of fencing and completed about 1.5km of waterway and remnant vegetation protection fencing on a farm in Glenburn and 800m along the King Parrot Creek with members of the Strath Creek Landcare Group. They have been working through areas of…
Read MoreUGLN Green Army – April Update
Over April our Green Army team have been busy constructing stock exclusion fencing along Andrews Creek in Taggerty and at the Merton Wetland. They have also been removing pine saplings and prunus shrubs from significant roadside areas along Frees Road in Gobur. While they have…
Read MoreUGLN Green Army – March Update
Over March our Green Army team continued working along the rail trail, UT Creek and the King Parrot Creek but have also started on a few other interesting and important projects. They have begun removing Briar Rose and Hawthorn from along Godfreys Creek in Gobur and around the…
Read MoreGreen Army
UGLN Green Army Project The Green Army have arrived in the Murrindindi Shire. Over the next 6 months this group of young people from Strathewen, Tooborac, Yea and Alexandra will be working throughout the Upper Goulburn region on environmental restoration projects on public and private land. The project…
Read MoreUGLN Lorax Project 2015
The Upper Goulburn Landcare Networks revegetation ‘Lorax Project’ has finished for another year after a very successful year of tree planting throughout the Murrindindi Shire. This year 294 volunteers from NAB, ANZ, JBWere, Carlton United Breweries, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Kevin Heinz Garden Centre, Yea High School, Flowerdale PS…
Read MoreLorax Project 2015
Thanks to funding provided by the State Governments Communities For Nature program the UGLN Lorax project is now into it’s 6th year. Our 2015 planting season only really kicked off in June but already we have planted 4170 plants on properties throughout the Upper Goulburn catchment. Thanks to the help of volunteers from Price Waterhouse Coopers, NAB, ANZ,…
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