Best $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…
Read MoreNew Discovery in The Cathedral Ranges
This is the gorgeous little White Footed Dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) that’s recently been found in the Cathedral Ranges (since the fires) and the first-ever record of this species in that district.* Though it’s known to occur in the catchments of the Big, Acheron & Yea Rivers, these animals are small, rarely seen and easily confused…
Read MoreGrocon Recycling for Recovery Meeting…at Marmalades in Yea
The team squirrelling away on Grocon applications. Grocon have kindly donated more than $1million to the Landcare fire recovery efforts across the State – the UGLN bids will total $499,000 for weeds, trees, nesting boxes, fence removal & installation, pest animals, volunteer coordination and community support and education. Phew.
Read MoreANZ in blizzard conditions…..brrrrr
25th June 2010 ANZ staff put up with bitterly cold conditions whilst pulling out burnt fence lines in regrowth at Kinglake. We know they’ll ensure their fingers thaw out before they start work. ‘Fat thumbs’ may not be welcome in the accounts department, but they are easily tolerated when tree planting and there’s no chance…
Read MoreHawthorn Rotary + Sausages & Wine = 300 seedlings planted!
10th of JulyTree planting at Lisa, Ron, Archie and Ella’s with 11 members of Hawthorn Rotary enjoying Lisa’s yummy sausages and wine at the end of the day. It was so cold that David had to borrow Lucia’s pink beanie to keep his ears warm. 300 seedlings were planted to screen water tank and to…
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