African Lovegrass – Is this becoming a familar grass ? Please read below. My name is Glen Shennan. I am a masters student at Charles Sturt University, working with Dr. Richard Crabbe. We are conducting a study to attempt to detect African Lovegrass (ALG) using Sentinel satellite data in the Snowy-Monaro region. The […]
Margaret Mackinnon
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Dear Upper Snowy Landcare Supporters New Treasurer needed On August 28th, we will hold our 2020 Annual General Meeting (details soon in a separate communication). At that meeting, our hard-working Treasurer, Rhia Stanger, will step down and we are therefore seeking someone to fill this position. This note is […]
Greening Australia, as part of its Monaro Tree Comeback Project, is once again offering people in the Monaro Tree Dieback affected region a helping hand to replant what has been lost. If you are living amongst the dead trees on the Monaro – in Cooma, Berridale and Dalgety please consider […]
In the last two weeks, under sunny blue skies, the Upper Snowy Landcare crew carefully spent the NSW Environmental Trust’s funds to purchase and plant thousands of seedlings to restore dieback-degraded landscapes on the Monaro. A number of fabulous volunteers joined in and the autumn weather was well-behaved. There was […]
Upper Snowy Landcare Network has just completed a trial of Hiko (small) vs. Forestry (large) tubestock under their Dieback Project to plant back trees and shrubs. Under a $50,000 grant from the National Landcare Program, three different sites across the Monaro were planted with 1000 trees and shrubs each in […]
Last Saturday, a group of six Landcarers, aged 6 to 70, took themselves off to Gegedzerick Travelling Stock Reserve, the area surrounding the historic church atop the hill just north of Berridale. They had one question on their minds: how many of the dead ribbon gums lost to dieback contain […]
As reports come in from the devastating bushfires that have impacted so many of our communities, words cannot fully express how saddened our entire Landcare community is for the losses so many of our groups are experiencing. The statistics are staggering. Nearly 5 million hectares of land being burnt in the state’s […]
UPPER SNOWY LANDCARE NETWORK Media Release – 2 Dec 2019 The Upper Snowy Landcare Network (USLN) would like to extend its most heartfelt wishes to everyone in the region. For USLN, the last half of this year has been extremely hectic (and of course rather scary with our weather going […]
