Phase two of our wildlife corridor has been added to Place Stories

Visit our PlaceStories Project site for the wildlife corridor project.

This is a project website I (Tony) recently discovered. I have built a project there to investigate the possibilities and to see if it will be helpful for Landcare and LaSourceProjects activities.

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Tentative date set for Phase Two of Wildlife Corridor

April 21st and 22nd have been penciled in for the final Wildlife corridor tree planting session. Love to have you along.

Bill and Linda also have some trees needing planting which we may move on to if we are as fast as we were last time.

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Blackberry is getting quite active this year

And yes I mean the same Blackberry that Ronnie Corbet talks about here

See this Weed Management Guide from Landcare.

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Atlas of Living Australia

Yesterday I learned about the Atlas of Living Australia at ala.org.au while listening to ABC Radios Science show on podcast.

Including citizen science, crowd sourcing and professional/scientific research datasets it provides an interactive catalog of species identified or observed all over Australia.

See Reports in the Tomboye area, focused on Tomboye Road, by following this link

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Welcome to 2012 Landcarers

This year Tomboye landcare can look forward to the following milestones

  • Formal incorporation
  • Completing the Second Phase of the Wildlife Corridor in April
  • Building participation in this website
  • Identifying fantastic new opportunities to build community and sustainable management of our land.

Best wishes and I look Forward to us getting together

Tony – President.

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UPPER SHOALHAVEN / UPPER DEUA LANDCARE CHRISTMAS PARTY

Landcare members ARE WARMLY INVITED

FRIDAY DECEMBER 9

ANGLICAN HALL, BRAIDWOOD.

Address: Wilson Street, BRAIDWOOD (Next to the preschool)

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL!

Contact Kristy Moyle (02) 4842 2594

kristy.moyle@cma.nsw.gov.au

RSVP by 30 November 2011

FAMILIES WELCOME!

5.30pm—9.00pm

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Wildlife Corridor tree planting weekend update

To all – An update on the Tree Planting weekend.

What happened ?
The late notice (Emailed out only) certainly meant allot of people that wanted to come could not make it, however we got a few and had a very productive weekend. We had 7 people volunteering this weekend.

Just to prove tree planing can be a bit of a pushover 5 of us planted 320 trees in a few hours, three of us returning for an hour after lunch to give the trees a small drink to get them on their way.

Lunch was a wonderful social and Gourmet experience and we also drank our fill of cold drinks.

After watering the trees we had a sudden storm shower, fortunately only after we were already in shelter and it was exactly what the trees could use.

Some of us stayed together for dinner, another wonderful meal and plenty of good wine.

When another two volunteers arrived for dinner with plans for some Sunday plantings, we could have disappointed them (having planted all the trees), but we decided to help our neighbors (also volunteers) to plant another 50 trees on their property – So on Sunday morning we all mucked in and helped finish the neighbors trees in about an hour and then spent more time than that, chin wagging over a nice coffee.

All in all a very enjoyable and productive weekend.

Special thanks goes to all the volunteers but especially Nick who prepared the soil (Ripping) collected the tress and planed the plantings with Felicity from the Catchment Management Authority.

Yes we hope to have another 400 trees planted in March and I will let you know with allot more notice next time.

Regards Tony

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Streamwatch training in the Upper Shoalhaven & Upper Deua

Dear Landcarers – Please read the information below and consider whether Streamwatch training is for you. Once you are trained for Streamwatch water quality monitoring – you will be responsible (with your group) for carrying out seasonal tests on the waterway you have chosen. This means spring, summer, winter & autumn. More often if you are really keen! Streamwatch training is booked for Saturday the 19th of November, 2011. It will either be in Mongarlowe or in Braidwood depending on who would like to participate.If this date suits you PLEASE let me know ASAP (Felicity 48422594). If you would really like to do the training but the date is wrong – please let me know that as well.

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Trees on Farms Partial Grant win

Great news, we (Tony and Nick) have managed to win a partial grant for our Wildlife Corridor Grant application.

We will let you know when we have more details, and adjust our plans.

Tony

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Lets hope the Carp don’t get this bad in the Mongarlowe

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