Showing off Glenshera Swamp at the SA Nature Festival

Posted on 31 Oct 2022 at 14:14h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration 0 Comments

As part of the recent Nature Festival of South Australia, we joined with our restoration partners to showcase all the wonderful work that has gone into restoring Glenshera Swamp at Stipiturus Conservation Park on the Fleurieu Peninsula. A big turnout of about 25 eager participants...

More wetland restoration works at Glenshera Swamp complete, ahead of Swamp Fest 2022!

Posted on 14 Jun 2022 at 12:44h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration 1 Comment

In what has been a huge few months of on-ground hydrological restoration works for NGT, after March works in Tassie and April works at Hutt Bay, our final autumn works update is for the part of Glenshera Swamp that is situated within Stipiturus Conservation Park....

Natural flows return for the first time in decades to a new section of creekline at Glenshera Swamp, near Mount Compass

Posted on 26 Jun 2020 at 00:01h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Regular readers will be familiar with NGT’s ongoing hydrological restoration work at Glenshera Swamp, on the Fleurieu Peninsula near Mount Compass. In the previous newsletter we described recent work completed to backfill an artificial drain that was denying flow to a natural, meandering creekline that formerly...

More waterway restoration works completed at Glenshera Swamp, near Mount Compass

Posted on 29 May 2020 at 16:18h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 2 Comments

Over three wet days in early May, NGT staff (Mark and Ben) got to work with the assistance of an earthworks contractor, backfilling more artificial drains within Stipiturus Conservation Park. This important reserve contains a signification portion of Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact...

Fleurieu Swamps restoration update – the latest news from Glenshera Swamp

Posted on 25 Mar 2018 at 20:11h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration 1 Comment

Last week a small crew (Ben, Mark and Dale from NGT, along with Jason and Randall from DEWNR) headed back to Glenshera Swamp to make some minor adjustments and repairs to the structures we installed last year, both inside and outside Stipiturus CP. This also...

Fine tuning the operation of the restoration trial structures at Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP

Posted on 29 Oct 2017 at 09:57h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Wetland Restoration 0 Comments

While at Glenshera Swamp for a couple of days in late September, we were able to see precisely how responsive an already wet catchment above the swamp is to small amounts of rainfall – with 8.5 mm of rain falling overnight on the 24th of September. So after...

Summing up recent wetland restoration tours of Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP

Posted on 29 Oct 2017 at 09:55h in News, Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, Wetland Restoration 1 Comment

On the 24th and 25th of September, NGT’s Mark Bachmann and Ben Taylor teamed up with DEWNR’s Randall Johnson to guide visitors around some of the recent restoration works at Stipiturus Conservation Park, 6 km west of Mount Compass. Stipiturus contains most of Glenshera Swamp,...

Spring restoration tours at Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP – book your free spot now!

Posted on 08 Sep 2017 at 18:16h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

Well, it’s certainly been a busy couple of years for us at Glenshera Swamp (Stipiturus CP), as we’ve progressed from restoration planning to on-ground works. And so, after a wet July and August (and equally damp start to September), it is time to show you...

Turning restoration planning into on-ground action at Glenshera Swamp, Stipiturus CP

Posted on 23 Apr 2017 at 10:41h in Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News, Wetland Restoration 2 Comments

It is just over 12 months since we completed the restoration feasibility assessment for Glenshera Swamp in Stipiturus Conservation Park, and I am pleased to report that the planning has now been turned into the first stages of on-ground action! Thanks in particular to the Fleurieu...

Glenshera Swamp and Lower Murray fish presentations now available as podcasts

Posted on 31 May 2016 at 15:51h in Fish conservation, Glenshera Swamp restoration, News 0 Comments

If you missed myself and Nick speaking at the SA NRM Science Conference in Adelaide last month, then not to worry! – the talks were recorded and are now available to view and listen to on-line. First up from Session 3 is my talk about...

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