Posts by Judy Watts
Tree Planting in Antarctica
Well that is what it felt like! A team of 11 ANZ volunteers from the Docklands Human Resources department braved gale-force winds and temperatures below 5 degrees to plant 300 trees in Kinglake on Tuesday 29th July . I think we did see the occasional snow flake fall around lunch time. Our fingers froze and…
Read MoreANZ volunteers in Kinglake
Volunteers from the ANZ’s Queens St office (Trade and Supply Chain-Institutional; did I get that right?) went to Karen & Bernie Ostenried’s place in Kinglake yesterday. It was a freezing day in Kinglake. We started planting in fog & mist, with the temperature around 3 degrees (well, that’s what it felt like) and a strong…
Read MoreThe ANZ at ‘Tranquil Rises’, Flowerdale.
Today was a Landcare & Treeproject partnership at Ray Butterworth’s, Flowerdale, where we are revegetating the VERY STEEP hills at the back of the property (but we need a good pair of gloves first). 25 ANZ volunteers plus 2 Treeproject & 2 Landcare support staff managed to….. Plant 1100 trees!Erect a marque for Sams 40th…
Read MoreGreat stakes available in Seymour
Load number 1: the first 3000 of the 20,000 timber stakes the Fire Recovery Project has ordered from GATE Enterprises Seymour – that’s about six pallet’s worth of stakes! G.A.T.E offers employment to people with a disability in Seymour and the surrounding district. Skilled supervisors work with employees, assisting them to develop new skills, confidence…
Read MoreMap of burnt areas & paying homage to our volunteers
This is a map of the areas burnt by the Black Saturday fires and the proportion of that area in the Upper Goulburn River catchment. Also, part of our homage (below) to the hundreds of fencing & clean-up volunteers that are making such an importatn contribution to the cause.
Read MoreLandcare Coordinators tour fire affected areas
It’s now 16 months since the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network (UGLN) began its fire-recovery program, helping landholders rebuild fences, revegetate bare areas, install nest boxes for homeless fauna etc. It was time to let Landcare Coordinators from other parts of the catchment (GBCMA) know what we’ve achieved, as well as the huge challenges still facing…
Read MoreSouth Cathederal Lane
Had a very constructive day tree planting with 40 NAB volunteers today.Visited 3 properties , planted , staked & guarded 900 trees and shrubs.Misty weather conditions with occassional showers. Impressive views of Cathedral Range.Wet and slippery under foot.Huge bus / coach did manage to get reasonably close to the planting sites without mishap.Great team of…
Read MoreThe Lorax: A sneezy mascot for our revegetation project.
“Mister!” he said with a sawdusty sneeze, “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.” (from The Lorax, by Dr Seuss) Dr Seuss’ Lorax was a revegetation advocate of the first order and obviously a Landcarer. His task was to redress the devastation wrought by the Once-ler and nurture trees back into a denuded…
Read MoreOur part-time Landcare Coordinator Bridget Clarke and Janet Hagen (Coordinator for the Hughes Creek Catchment), have spent most of their time since the fires working closely with community groups and land-holders to begin the mammoth task of rebuilding fences and rehabilitating a burnt landscape. They did a brilliant job coordinating hundreds of volunteers, pulling down…
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