We recently took another trip to the edge of Moulting Lagoon, on Tassie's east coast, in November 2024. The purpose was to continue to monitor the ecological recovery of saltmarsh in response to restored hydrology at the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s Long Point Reserve and the...
NGT has recently been engaged by the Derwent Estuary Program (DEP) to complete an assessment and develop a restoration plan for an area of saltmarsh at Windermere Bay on the shores of the River Derwent at Claremont, north of Hobart. In contrast to many...
For the past 12 months we have been working on a restoration plan for a special saltmarsh in Tasmania, Burdens Marsh. The saltmarsh is situated on Sloping Main Reserve, one of the Tasmanian Land Conservancy's (TLC) newest Reserves, on Turrakana/The Tasman Peninsula. Burdens Marsh has...
NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day on Wednesday 3rd April 2024 at Burdens Marsh - a recent and important addition to TLC's Sloping Main Reserve, on the Tasman Peninsula, south-eastern Tasmania.The field day provided an opportunity for locals...
NGT's Hobart-based wetland crew, Bec and Justine, undertook a trip to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tassie recently (in early April 2024), to download the data from our long-term water level and salinity loggers. This was a few days after Mark also managed...
Close to twelve months of baseline monitoring data has now been captured for the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site! The Apsley Marshes is located on the east coast of Tasmania, and you can read more about our original introduction to the Marshes here. The baseline data...
On a perfect, sunny autumn day Tasmania's east coast on Thursday 11th May 2023, NGT, in partnership with NRM South and the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day at Long Point and The Grange properties, which border the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site. The...
You may have heard about our eco-hydrological investigation into the Moulting Lagoon and Aspley Marshes Ramsar sites on the east coast of Tasmania (read more about the project here) – an important project we are delivering in partnership with NRM South and the Australian Government. As...
Justine and I recently undertook a trip to Long Point, adjacent to Moulting Lagoon on the east coast of Tasmania. The aim of this trip was to download data from a network of water level and salinity loggers now installed across the site. It was...
Water level and salinity loggers installed at the Apsley Marshes Ramsar Site on Tasmania's east coast, have now been out in the field collecting data for four months. Loggers were downloaded on 11-12th August and monitoring sites surveyed (measuring their precise location and elevation) to...
