UNE Landcare in the news

It’s been a fairly exciting week in the lead up to the launch of the 10,000 Trees campaign. I am blown away by the interest from the community and am so excited to see what the day holds in store for us on Sunday.

We have been lucky enough to get an article on the front page of the UNE site (a big thank you to Jim Scanlan), and yesterday I was interviewed by ABC New England North West. Our media release was included in the Armidale Independent as well. 

There is plenty of rain predicted over the next few days – fingers crossed it soaks the site and clears up before Sunday! I can’t wait to see you all there.

Planting on Nov 11 – Site Map

Site marked by the green arrow

10,000 Trees – Campus Creek Cleanout Launch

 

Join us on Sunday 11 November to get started planting 10,000 trees at UNE!

$18000 funding

UNE Landcare recently received more than $18000 funding from the Caring For Our Country ‘Community Action Grants’. This funding will go towards the Campus Creek Cleanout project, allowing us to replant the creek with local native plant species.

Working Bee

The Armidale Urban Rivercare Group (AURG) in conjunction with the UNE Landcare Group and UNE Facility Management are going to undertake a working bee on Dumaresq Creek at Sport UNE this coming Sunday.  The working bee is primarily a tree removal working bee and there will be lots of work for all who want to be involved.  This work is hugely rewarding as you can see a lot of exotic and feral trees removed in a day’s work! Details as follows:-

Time:               Start at 9am.

Date:               Sunday 13 May 2012.

Location:      Walking path closest to Elm Ave

What to bring:   Please bring your own personal protection gear (gloves, hats, sturdy boots, sun screen etc).  As we will be working around a lot of timber I strongly recommend people wear long sleeved shirts and trousers.  If you have a high visibility shirts and hearing protection then please bring this as well.

A morning tea and lunch will be provided for a gold coin donation.  As the Lions Club may not be able to help out on Sunday we may need help doing the BBQ! Please bring along a mug!

Natural regeneration!

The acacias are multiplying!

 

Some of the current plantings have been at the Dumaresq Ck site for over 5 years. After all of the rain this summer, and a bit of TLC to get the competitive edge on weeds, they are looking absolutely glorious.

Whilst doing some maintenance work on the plantings this weekend, Mic spotted some very exciting stuff. The acacias have set seed, and frogs are loving the creeklands.

Clubs affiliation

We need to make UNE Landcare an affiliated club with UNE. This will help with promotion, facilities, networking, resourcing and support at UNE from the Services UNE.

To make it happen, we need:

at least 5 people

to establish a management committee

to prepare a constitution

to hold a meeting (inaugural AGM)

to submit an application for affiliation

Some of this already exists from the old UNE Landcare group thankfully, because the governance stuff is not fun.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

UNE Landcare will be running a stall at ‘Lifesaver Day’ in O-Week. Anyone interested in volunteering for a short (whatever suits) shift on the stall would be very welcome.

There might even be beautiful organic cotton, sweatshop free UNE Landcare t-shirts for those wishing to join up for the year ($10 for a shirt).

February working bee

Sunday Feb 12 at the Goat Track site

From 9:00am

Join the AURG, UNE Landcare and FMS as we tackle woody weeds on the creek. This is part of the second stage of the creek regeneration where we’ll be putting finishing touches on the area to the west of the Goat Track, and moving east where work is desperately needed.

Bring gloves, secateurs (if you have them), water, hat, and a gold coin for lunch from the Lions Club

RSVP to ellen@snelcc.org.au

2012

2011 saw UNE Landcare back in action on campus. After a five year lull, work has resumed to regenerate the bush and riparian lands at UNE.

Some highlights:

630 new seedlings planted along Dumaresq Ck

over 5 ha of bush regeneration

two plant identification work shops

one really big truck getting bogged

None of this would have been possible without the support of UNE Facilities Management Services and the HiCUB Project, and of course, the volunteers.

2012 is set to be bigger and better, with the launch of the second stage of regeneration works in Dumaresq Ck. Working with UNE FMS and the Armidale Urban Rivercare Group we are going to move east from the Goat Track Bridge, cleaning up tonnes of woody weeds and planting a mix of local natives guaranteed to bring some wildlife back to the creek.

We need your help though, because the more people we have, the faster this work gets done and the sooner we all get to enjoy our efforts.

Contact ellen@snelcc.org.au to get involved today.