Fencing
UGLN Farm Dams for Wildlife Project
UGLN recently completed their very successful Farm Dams for Wildlife project. The project helped to rehabilitate, revegetate and permanently exclude stock from 14 farm dams on 9 properties across the Upper Goulburn region. It helped to increase aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity and habitat, improve water quality and repair degraded soils in and around the 14…
Read MoreFencers Without Boundaries winds up
After another very successful year the UGLN fire recovery fencing program ‘Fencers Without Boundaries’ (FWB) has finally come to an end. SA Rotary volunteers fencing at Kinglake (2011) Victorian Mobile Landcare Group (2010) FWB stalwarts John Belfio and Alan Stafford at Sunday Creek (2011) Fire affected landowners provided the fencing materials and UGLN provided the volunteer…
Read MoreSpring Creek Rehabilitation
Landowners along the Spring Creek in Flowerdale have been taking advantage of UGLN’s fire recovery fencing and revegetation programs. In conjunction with the GBCMA waterway grants for fencing and off stream watering. Volunteers constructing fences on the Spring Creek With our assistance to date six landowners along Spring Valley Road in Flowerdale have fenced off their streams and remnant…
Read MoreFencers Without Boundaries 2012
The Upper Goulburn Landcare Network fire recovery fencing program ‘Fencers Without Boundaries’ is now into its fourth and final year. To date volunteers with our fencing program have contributed over 3000 days to rebuild 236 kilometres of fencing on fire affected properties throughout Murrindindi and Mitchell Shires. Only a fraction of the estimated 3,500 kilometres…
Read MoreFencers Without Boundaries
Our UGLN fire recovery fencing program ‘Fencers Without Boundaries’ has just completed another very successful year.To date volunteers with our fencing program have contributed over 2500 days to rebuild 220 kilometres of fencing on fire affected properties throughout Murrindindi and Mitchell Shires. Funded by the Federal Governments ‘Caring for our Country’ program, we have put…
Read MoreFencers Without Boundaries – Still bounding along
Terry Hubbard thanking our volunteers We recently said goodbye and thank you to two of our stalwart fencing teams SA Rotary and the 4WD drivers at a bbq in Strath Creek (pictured left). Between the two teams they have rebuilt 62km of fencing as part of UGLN’s Fencers Without Boundaries (FWB) fire recovery fencing…
Read MoreANZ Landcare Fire Recovery Week
Another very succesful week of volunteer work carried out with volunteers from the ANZ bank.Throughout the week 96 volunteers assisted us with fencing, weed control, nest boxes and tree planting at fire affected properties at Kilmore East, Pheasant Creek, Strath Creek, Heathcote Junction and Narbethong. The team did a great job despite at times having…
Read MoreFour Wheel Drivers Fencing Team
Geoff, Fred, Marg, Sparky and Ron are the stalwarts of our 4WD fencing team. They have been donating their time on weekends to help landcare and bushfire recovery. They have been a great help fencing in the muddy, wet conditions this winter where four wheel driving expertize was needed. They have worked on properties at…
Read MoreFire Recovery Fencing Blitz
The last few months of 2010 was a fencing blitz for the fire affected people of Glenburn, Kinglake, Flowerdale and Pheasant Creek. The volunteers kept coming. We had individual volunteers from Reservoir, Wallan and Belgrave; the Uniting Church boys from Shepparton and Benalla, Green Corps from Seymour, 4WD club from Melbourne, a corporate group from…
Read MoreConservation Volunteers lend a Hand
An international team from Conversation Volunteers Australia helped out with our Fencers Without Boundaries program for 5 weeks in the Buxton/Narbethong area during May-June 2010.The group was well lead by team leader Andrew Matthers and constructed many kilometres of fencing.
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