Fire Recovery
SW Sydney Environment Group Day 3
19/8/2010Day 3 SW Sydney Environment Group South Catheral Lane Taggerty The Team was well prepared for the chilly Victorian weather today They worked hard to plant 300 trees to replace burnt pine trees and create a windbreak and shade for stock. Lunchtime was spent texting friends. When the planting was completed the group headed off…
Read MoreIts a Wash Out !
18th August 2010 Day 2 The SW Sydney Schools Environment Group Bushfire Seed Production Area planting at Tabilk Winery. 20 keen students plus 3 teachers. 2000 very special plants Jim, Sandsie, Bobo and Janet . The forecast was not good but the rain did not start falling until we arrived at the site. The volunteers…
Read MoreSmall Block – Big Job
August 10th 2010 Kinglake West -Cold wet day. A coach load of 35 NAB volunteers, Janet & Cathy. The challenge for the day was how to fit 300 plants into John & Holly’s small block. Lots of natives grasses, lillies and creepers were planted. A real ‘backyard blitz’ makeover! They lost their house and garden…
Read MoreCath Olive joins the landcare team- for a few months
Cath Olive has become a very valuable member of the Landcare Bushfire Recovery team during her short period of unemployment from DPI. For the past few months she has been visiting landholders and delivering plants in the Marysville, Buxton, Taggerty and Narbethong areas.Her help at treeplanting days has been wonderful, selecting & laying out plants,…
Read MoreBest $200 We Ever Spent…
The toilet has been a fantastic investment. It follows us everywhere, hasn’t complained and is yet to do a wheel bearing. For remote sites it is essential and you can almost feel the relief of the volunteers when they turn up and you direct them to it during the ice-breaker. We have left it around…
Read MoreTree Project Sans Frontiers (with apologies to the Doctors with the same name)
Tree Project has been helping us out this Winter; they have supplied extra seedlings (we over subscribed our 28,000) and they have supplied their volunteer groups. Support from other agencies has been essential in getting our work done and Tree Project, like many others, responded to our call for help.
Read MoreSth West Sydney students help out for a week
24 students and staff from Sth West Sydney have come down for a week to give local landholders a hand. They will spend the week planting trees, installing nest boxes and cutting and painting weeds. This is the group’s second trip; they helped last year with a different lot of students.
Read MoreThree Sisters, Strath Creek.
6th August 2010 25 ANZ/GE volunteers plus Chris , Cath , David and Janet met at Terry Hubbards property in Strath Creek to do some serious tree planting . The paddocks were beautifully soggy and the hills impressively steep. We travelled to the planting site via 4WD tractor . The weather was not that kind…
Read MoreBushfire Recovery Revegetation Guide
MEDIA RELEASE – ‘Restoring our Landscape’ Revegetation Guide.A free revegetation guide is available to all landowners in the Murrindindi Shire that have fire affected properties.The Upper Goulburn Landcare Network (UGLN) has produced the ‘Restoring our Landscape’ revegetation guide which has been funded by the Federal Government’s Caring for Our Country Fire Recovery Program.The booklet provides…
Read MoreSerious Landcare Activity in Kinglake
You know the community’s active when the ‘lolly-pop’ turns up! Kinglake Landcare are serious about rebuilding and rejuvenating their local environment. Public safety is high on the list when planning and conducting on-ground works. We’ve been busy on National Tree Day: 40 volunteers including grade four students from Middle Kinglake Primary School attended the National…
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