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Many landholders know all too well, the truth is – you can ‘plan’ all you like …. BUT… in the case of planting en masse, it is innocent rain drops that will flick plans into action. So while we wait to for a decent rain event to plant another three biodiversity plots in the dieback area this Autumn, we can update you on what we have done to date. Each of our existing 12 biodiversity plots are showing varying degrees of success (see graph below). We have set up smaller sub plots to monitor tree survival and growth rates without having to traipse across the whole area. Most of the species that we have planted (see pie chart) are doing well.. We have passed a clever drone across each plot to capture baseline images that we can look back on in years to come. Our free Native Tree & Shrub […]
Upper Snowy Landcare, Greening Australia, local botanical artist and some active local school children got together to plant trees and create art in response to tree dieback on the Monaro. slovenska-lekaren.com To bring the subject of Monaro tree dieback into sharper focus for local children (and their teachers and parents), primary school students in the tree dieback area were invited to a special day at Cooba Educational Centre. The children were given the opportunity in one afternoon to witness tree dieback up close, discuss tree decline and the importance of a healthy biodiverse landscape, plant a local native tree with Greening Australia (funded by the NSW Environmental Trust) and be instructed by botanical artist Sharon Field. Ms Field’s fine botanical art will be exhibited at the Cooma Raglan Gallery in September under the project name, ‘Monaro Runes’. The art completed by the students will also feature in this exhibition putting an educative and […]
The Upper Snowy Landcare Network (USLN) wish to congratulate all the participating primary schools, their art teachers and the talented students themselves for contributing masterpieces for the USLN 2018 calendar. For many years, under the original instigation of past USLN Chairwoman, Robin Sevenoaks, the USLN have enjoyed setting a theme and then watching art pieces roll in from the many primary schools in the region. While we cannot put all the beautiful art into one single calendar, children have an opportunity to enter each year. The theme of the 2018 calendar is, “Native animals that live in the Snowy Mountains” and the calendar art has a bent toward animals that are currently threatened or endangered including corroboree frogs, basking fish, pygmy possums, spotted quolls. The calendar is available for free at many outlets including: Cooma Visitors Centre, Cooma Library, Jindabyne Visitors Centre and Snowy Monaro Regional Council offices in Cooma […]
Upper Snowy Landcare Committee (USLC) is overjoyed to embark on the tree planting phase of its large scale revegetation project amongst the dieback scarred hills between Cooma and Berridale in early June 2016. brasil-libido.com Robin Sevenoaks (Chair of USLC) was on site at Kelton Plain to celebrate the first day of planting, “Over the last few months, USLC have engaged willing landholders, carefully prepared each of the four plots and patiently waited for this godsend of recent soaking rain to sow trees and shrubs as part of our important Dieback Project.” The 5000 trees and shrubs being planted across the four dieback revegetation plots is accepted by USLC as a small but still very important reaction to an extremely large dieback episode. Species being re-established will mimic what has been lost whilst adding more diversity in a mix of 8 eucalyptus species, 4 acacia species along with 5 species of shrubs including tea tree and callistemon. […]
Each year school children from across the Monaro submit artworks for our annual calendar. The theme for 2016 is “Soil is where food begins – healthy soils for a healthy life” and as usual this year it was so hard to narrow it down – the standard of work was so impressive. slovenska-lekaren.com If you’d like a copy of the calendar you can pop into the NPWS visitors centre in Jindabyne, the Cooma Visitors Centre, the South East Local Land Services Office in Soho Street or you can email [email protected].