10 NAB Fencers without Boundaries
Upper Goulburn Landcare’s fence re-building work is going from strength to strength. Today we removed 700m of old fence and finished up by 2pm. The weather held off until about 3pm and I caught up with Alan Stafford at Kinglake West about another fencing job. You might recognize a few of the NAB blokes in…
Read MoreANZ Teamwork at Kinglake
Monday 12 July was a good day in Kinglake West for planting. This ANZ team worked with Chris Coburn to put in 220 plants at Fenech’s. Bernadine took a day off work to be with the team and was very grateful for their assistance.Sites around the house weren’t ready to plant, so Bernadine will do…
Read MoreSuccessful ANZ & Landcare & Treeproject partnership continues.
July 2nd 2010Heather and Steve Joblin were assisted in repairing their large revegetation project which was burnt by the fires in Strath Creek. 300 trees were added to the steep hill sides.Volunteer workers included 8 ANZ bankers from Southbank in the city , Timothy from Treeproject plus Justus and Janet Hagen from Landcare. The chatter…
Read MoreEven the bus driver joined in!
Something completely Different.Wood Splitting & StackingPost and Rail Fence MakingPotting Up & other nursery workTree planting along the boundary 32 NAB volunteers travelled to the Toolangi Garden Restoration Centre to help Jack and Narrie with their innovative community project. Fallen burnt trees were being milled to make framing timber and fencing for rebuilding. Waste logs…
Read MoreWashed Out
Unfortunately, all the tree planting events on Friday 25th June were canceled. Janet looks very sad as she unpacks the trailer before going inside to spend the day by the fire. It rain all day with 63mm falling in many parts of the ranges. Teams from GE and ANZ were dissappointed. The ANZ team were…
Read MoreTree 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.
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