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 […]
Dieback Project
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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 […]
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 […]
Upper Snowy Landcare Network along with its many on-ground partners and collaborators such as Greening Australia, Monaro Native Tree Nursery, Cooma Correctional Centre and many others are brushing the soil from their gloves for 2017. This year saw five new 1 ha biodiversity plots planted down to a selection of […]
Upper Snowy Landcare have moved into the new age by engaging a drone to help survey existing tree and shrub revegetation plots in the dieback region on the Monaro. Drone operator, Zachary Simpson, from ZRSPhotography (www.zrsphotography.com.au) has all the necessary tickets to operate his drones and obtains further approvals to […]
To add to the scenic views along the Monaro Hwy just north of Bunyan is a new army of green tree guards nurturing yet another native plant revegetation plot. The new plot, installed by Sue and Steven Wallace, of more than 200 native trees and shrubs runs along the Monaro […]
The following papers were presented at this important forum. K2C Forum ProgramDieback Forum Introduction by Rainer RehwinkelDieback Implications for Koalas by Chris AllenBlakely’s Red Gum Dieback Mapping by BothaMonaro Dieback by Cris BrackAssisted Colonization by Sue McIntyreMcleods Creek NR Woodland Restoration by Suzanne PowerWoodland Management Principles by Jacqui StolMonaro Tree Comeback Project by Nicki TawsUpper Snowy […]
Tree planting goes ahead after massive rain event on the Monaro 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 this week. Robin Sevenoaks (Chair of USLC) was on site […]