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What sort of activities could you be involved with through Wooragee Landcare?
Field days (frogs, revegetation, weed control, cultural burning)
Guided walks (orchids, fungi)
Workshops (pollinators, photography, nature journaling)
Management of creek reserves such as Warden Lane Reserve (weed control, nest box erecting, planting)
Educational signage (have you visited the Indigenous garden at the hall, or Warden reserve lately?)
Involvement with Junior Landcare at Wooragee Primary School
What does Wooragee Landcare Group do?
What does Wooragee Landcare Group do?
• Promotes best land management practices for all types of land uses
• Works in partnership with local landholders to ensure sustainability
• Encourages district wide participation in Landcare activities which aim to include the many diverse community members
• Encourages community interaction via education, sharing of knowledge, restoration works and social events
• Contributes to the development of a district plan
• Manages, protects and restores road reserves and crown land in our area
• Is primarily concerned with water quality, revegetation, weed & pest control
• Provides assistance, advice and encouragement for native flora & fauna rehabilitation projects.
Our group provides a source of information regarding pest plant and animal management and landholders legal obligations in this area. There is equipment available for hire to members and subsidies for the cost of control measures. Landcare also instigates and co-ordinates area wide programs to control major weeds and pests eg. Paterson’s curse; rabbits and foxes.
Assistance is also provided for stream water quality issues, revegetation projects and submissions for Landcare related grants.
This group is supported by Landcare Facilitator Jim Blackney
Interested in becoming a member? Find out more and access the membership form and details here.
Junior Landcare
Junior Landcare
Wooragee Landcare supports Junior Landcare at the Wooragee Primary school by co-funding a guest naturalist Karen Retra, who attends regularly to take the kids for nature based activities. Wooragee Landcare acknowledges the generous support of Lucas Mill and a private donor to enable us to do this
Wooragee Landcare supports Junior Landcare at the Wooragee Primary school by co-funding a guest naturalist Karen Retra, who attends regularly to take the kids for nature based activities. Wooragee Landcare acknowledges the generous support of Lucas Mill and a private donor to enable us to do this
History
History
The inaugural meeting of Wooragee Landcare Group was held at the Wooragee Hall on November 2nd 1988 with Graeme Missen as Chairman for the evening. Graeme is still a committee member.
An enthusiastic and very active committee was elected at that meeting and the group has moved from strength to strength from that time.
Junior Landcare was launched at Wooragee Primary School on March 15th 1989. It was the first Junior Landcare in Victoria - dare we say in the world (?) - and received the first National Landcare award for contribution to education - the 25 student Wooragee Rural school outcompeting universities and other large institutions.
Wooragee Landcare has been involved in many activities aimed at fulfilling its mission statement. Consultation and liaison between landholders and government and council agencies has been an essential part of the group’s work to maintain constant vigilance in the eradication of pest plants and animals from our land, and in the promotion of revegetation projects and the protection of remaining remnants of natural vegetation.
The establishment of a display garden of indigenous plants and the erection of the barbeque facility and public noticeboard have been past projects. We also venture into non traditional Landcare activities with Fungi workshops, nature journaling and cultural burning.
Costa and Gardening Australia came to celebrate
20 years of junior Landcare at Wooragee!
Costa and Gardening Australia came to celebrate
20 years of junior Landcare at Wooragee!
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