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@Alpha1Nine I have contacted the DSE about the building of new housing developments in the Macedon Ranges. I had found growling grass frogs on the lands they wanted and did develop. I thought someone would have responded. Still the housing developments are created and no more growling grass frogs, except on my tiny property. So sad. Also the native grass lands are also destroyed. No one wants to know. #landcare #faunacare #floracare

Back to weekly #landcare and perfect weather for it! Mawson shared path.

Sunny morning on the shared pathway plantings. A few ppl planting and weeding. Large trees in the background.

Bought a garden cart of the landcare group. Going there I kinda threw it on top of the trailer but it wasn't good and did make the trailer too wide to fit easily through the anti-bicycle barriers along the bike path. So going home I clipped it to the back to the trailer and towed it. #LegalInAustralia

Not shown: the vege shop dumpster dive on the way home so I could get compost. Made the chickens happy :)

#CargoBike #landcare #mudcrabs #CooksRiver

A long john style cargo bike towing a two wheel trailer that has a big black plastic bin, then towing behind that trailer a four wheel garden cart. It's very long. On the grass next to a concrete path with mangroves and a river in the background

a long john style cargo bike towing a two wheel trailer, with a four wheel garden cart tied to the top. On a concrete path then in the background grass then mangroves and a river

@alina Do you have non-profits, landcare groups, trusts for Nature Conservancy or environmental organisations who can help?

Australia has a few. Some will help you manage it, sell it for you, etc.

https://fnpw.org.au/donate-land/

https://trustfornature.org.au/ways-to-give/donate-land

#LandCare #LandForWildlife

Why Stewardship, Not Just Sustainability, for Farmers and the Planet
#Stewardship #SustainableFarming #Agriculture #FarmingESG #EnvironmentalImpact #Farmers #LandCare #Sustainability #ClimateAction #CommunityImpact #ResilientAgriculture
#SustainableFarming
https://the-14.com/why-stewardship-not-just-sustainability-for-farmers-and-the-planet/

Spring has sprung at our #landcare site.

Unusual callistemon place with fine grey/green foliage and red flowers.

Hardenbergia: native climber with purple flowers

Tiny native groundcover with yellow flowers and dark green leaves

Shrub with small leaves and lots of small brownish papery flowers

#Aboriginal land managers restoring #BassStrait island #lungtalanana to #precolonial conditions facing big hurdles

"Until we get rid of the cats, we cannot put other smaller, more vulnerable species back out on that island"

By Georgia Hogge
Posted Tue 4 Jun 2024

"In short: A native rewilding project on the #Tasmanian Bass Strait island of lungtalanana, or #ClarkeIsland, will see #wombats, #wallabies and #potoroos reintroduced to the landscape from next year.

"The island has been managed by #TraditionalOwners as protected land since 2009.

"What's next? #Landcare groups hope to eradicate feral cats from the island and are calling for increased funding from the federal government."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/rewilding-wombats-wallabies-potaroos-lungtalanana-clarke-island/103920996

#Funding #Rewilding #WWF #RestoreNature #Restorelungtalanana #TasmanianAboriginalCenter #Tasmania

Some bastard has entirely removed and broken up three of our precious kangaroo apples, propagated by one of our group. We wonder whether they mistook them for marijhuana?? BASTARDS. #landcare

Pink tree guard with notice written on it:
"Did you remove our kangaroo apples? Friends of Mawson Ponds are VERY sad :( "

2 years and 2 months; the #BushRegen / #rewilding in a local riparian zone is moving along nicely. Using a hybrid #Syntropic / #miyawaki style in rows (barely visible now), with #pollard, lifting (pruning), biomass cycling of natives/weeds, and eventually thinning to select better performers to increase growth rates. 60m long, 40m wide, just over 3000 plants mostly all grown from seed (some seedlings dug up and potted).

#gardeningau #landcare

A regeneration planting in a riparian zone shows a series of planting rows shot on an oblique angle, with a mix of trees, grasses, and weeds all growing together. There are some larger Casuarina trees present in background.

A regeneration planting in a riparian zone shows a series of planting rows photographed inline, with a mix of trees, grasses, and weeds all growing together. There are more pronounced sedges present in foreground, Lomandra hystrix, with naturally occurring ferns bordering them in 2 other rows amongst other vegetation and weeds.

3 planting rows in a riparian revegetation project with numerous pioneer trees present, mostly Commersonia bartramia. An Elaeocarpus grandis, Toechime tenax, and Trema tomentosa are visible in foreground.

4 rows of planted trees in a riparian revegetation project are visible with native Raspberry, Rubus probus, spilling out between the rows and preventing foot traffic.

2/2. Well, how's this? First sign done, the other 2 under way. Pretty exciting. #landcare #MawsonPonds #Volunteering

Bobcat with auger and two blokes, digging holes in a native garden bed.

Close up of sign, banging on about how it's a COMMUNITY initiative, and not a govt planting, although recognising help from govt and the Woden Valley Community Council.

Big day. The three professionally made signs for our landcare site are finally going in. We got a govt grant and I've spent 10 months wrangling the bureaucracy over what they will say and how they'll look. Anyhoo... we got there eventually and today's the day. We have hired Ed to dig the holes, and a wonderful volunteer is going to cement them in for us. Yay!!! Watch this space. #volunteering #MawsonPonds #Canberra #landcare

One sack of garbage (including a deck of trivial pursuit cards scattered all over) in first 30 minutes of just me as some rando human wandering around with a stick in the #BlueMountaims doing a bit of #BushCleanup.

Come on, #humans. Do better.

#Bushcare #Landcare #NewSouthWales #Australia #Forest #PlasticPollution

Black garbage bag in a dry, open forest with a litter picker. Because the forest is not our frikkin waste disposal system.

The ACT govt 'volunteer liaison' ranger is driving me to drink. Just saying. #landcare

A miracle! About 3 months ago, down at our #landcare site at Mawson Ponds, I transplanted this self seeded eucalypt, as it was under the power lines. Nothing to lose, it couldn't stay there. And now? It's as happy as Larry. Totally unexpected! 😎

Small but healthy eucalypt about 50cm high, in a mulched area of native plants.

Bayer reaches $6.9 million settlement with New York over Roundup safety claims

"Pesticides can cause serious harm to the health of our environment, and pose a deadly threat to wildlife," and companies that make them must be "honest" with consumers about the dangers..."

"The settlement requires Bayer to stop advertising glyphosate-based Roundup as a safe and non-toxic product."

"The $6.9 million will be spent on reducing the impact of pesticides on pollinators and aquatic species."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/bayer-reaches-69-mln-settlement-with-new-york-over-roundup-safety-claims-2023-06-15/
#Roundup #Glyphosate #Pesticides #WeedKiller #weeds #Safety #Council #LandCare #Spraying #Wildlife #OneHealth

Taking a wander along a local creek, looking for Madeira Vine.

Will farmers ever do anything about land management if it is not profitable? While they are losing a fraction of their land, it's far cheaper for them to just ignore runaway erosion. This will not fix itself.

#bushregeneration #landcare #qld #sunshinecoast #australia #erosion #vetiver

A grassy cow paddock on right, a sheer eroded wall separates paddock from water.

An eroded wall casts a shadow across the creek from the paddock edge. Azolla fern can be seen on the water.

A right hand bend in a channelised creek shows an eroded surface with paddock grass spilling over the edge.

From mown grass paddock, to planted rows, to raging torrent of water and a loss of plants, to a beginning of a canopy after 1.5 years.

*Commersonia bartramia* feature as the main pioneer in this riparian revegetation site which will be used as managed shade and biomass for the mixed species planting they protect underneath them. Eventually some of the species will be thinned leaving the best performers at a spacing that suits the final goal of complete canopy cover and wild understory which is common of subtropical vegetation in this location.

As the site matures, shade-loving species will be added as I can propagate them. Plus more Lomandra, you can never have enough.

*You can never, repeat never, plant lomandras too thickly!" - 'Save Our Waterways Now' Planting Guide*

*"Lomandra spp. Matrushes, critically important stabilisers, impossible to overplant" - 'The Creek in our backyard' by Robert Whyte*

#bushregeneration #Revegetation #reforestation #landcare #sunshinecoast #subtropics #rewilding #queensland #gardeningau

A row of planted vegetation consisting of mostly Commersonia bartramia, a large-leaved native pioneer tree. Some other species are present.

2 rows of native planted vegetation with mixed species visible. A Commersonia is visible to left, Lomandra visible throughout.

A juvenile Eucalyptus cloeziana towers over a Macaranga tanarius and a Callistemon viminalis. Vetiver Grass and Blue Top are visible below. A star picket with yellow cap indicates the end of the row.

4 rows of planted tree and Lomandra species are beginning to look wild after 1.5 years. A large Casuarina cunninghamiana is visible in background.

Ban petrol lawn equipment
"Petrol leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread.Virtually all small engines are two-stroke, which burn a dirtier fuel mix than vehicles do. Advocates say that in addition to the climate-changing emissions released by the engines, workers are exposed directly to their exhaust and rarely wear filters to protect their lungs. Other people complain about the noise they make, especially when so many suburban #residents now work from home".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/
#batterypowered landscaping #Equipment #FossilFuel #Noise #Pollution #OHS #Conservation #Regeneration #LandCare #Bellingen #Suburbia #so50s #Gardening

The beauty of #weeds in a young #bushregeneration planting (others may call it #rewilding).

Working in the #landcare industry, we are told that all exotic plants are bad and must be removed, while there happens to be a cozy relationship between chemical companies and the goal of recreating precolonial vegetation types (definition: putting the genie back in the bottle). It's a noble pursuit and a simple goal to achieve; weed=bad, kill weed. Note: I'm definitely not saying that some invasive weeds don't deserve all of our ire and don't require chemical control, don't get me wrong.

For the small scale, we can break vegetation types into #successional needs and suddenly they aren't all bad, an exotic herb or grass is not always the weed of a tree canopy when that's the goal we are working for, nor will the conditions be present for it to thrive when that canopied state is achieved.

Plus, look at the photos; it's a concert of life and nothing seems unhappy. A gentle management and our tree goals might get there just as fast as a spray job. Much better than dead spray circles with a chemical manufactured across the other side of the world. At least this has insects.

The #permaculture ethos of "let nature do the work" isn't wrong and one day the landcare industry may see the futility of fighting nature most of the time and that all exotics are worth destroying, naturalised is a term that's forgotten for some. Careful consideration is always needed.

#gardeningau

A native planting filled with weeds and other vegetation

Larger native plantings pushing through the green of the weeds.

A Flindersia australis looking healthy as it fights for its place amongst the leaves.

Perfect weather for planting: cool and a bit drizzly. We planted about 50 plants this morning at Mawson Ponds. It's looking great and only 2 years in. #landcare #volunteering #canberra

#LandCare

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