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Happy 2022

We hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and New Year break with your nearest and dearest.

I know we were hoping that this year was going to be better than 2021 but really it hasn’t started out with any promise. However. Let us proceed with a strong heart and great resolve to get on with stuff in a positive frame of mind and plan lots of fabulous Landcare activities and action!

(I am really no good at this motivational stuff. Let’s hope I am a better field day planner)

As you know we are delivering a VLG (Victorian Landcare Grant). As well as some waterway restoration - some on-ground action - we will also be having two field days.

The first will be held on April 2nd, so please put it in your diaries and share it with your friends and networks.

Bird monitoring resumes for 2022

Birding this Wednesday January 19th. Meet at our bird monitoring sign at the Blackspur Creek bridge on the Rail Trail @4.00 pm

Dress for the weather, be sun smart, carry water, be Covid Safe, look out for snakes etc etc.

New book - Nature Unmasked

This is a not-for-profit, non-commercial publication. It can be downloaded for free as an eBook via the internet.The book is written for people who have a keen interest in nature and want to know more about it. It assumes very limited prior knowledge of the natural world. It’s a book about how living things are connected with their environments and each other in the State of Victoria, Australia.

In this book, the author Stephen Platt looks broadly at some of the ecosystems that are easily recognisable and that have been studied. The book is not intended to be an exhaustive catalogue of all ecosystems. Rather, the aim is to introduce some ecosystems and come to know something about how we currently think they function. The focus is not on threats and dysfunction. Importantly, when you’re in nature, the book challenges you to look, to ask questions about what’s going on and to seek answers.

Got gorse? serrated tussock? rabbits?

Explore the Virtual Extension Officer, a new interactive tool designed to help you manage three of Victoria’s worst invasive species - gorse, serrated tussock and rabbits.