Long-term readers of the NGT newsletter will know that for the past couple of years we have been getting to know the Moulting Lagoon and Aspley Marshes Ramsar sites on the east coast of Tasmania. To refresh your memory, you can read our previous stories...
If you are keen to see the saltmarsh remediation works completed recently adjacent to Moulting Lagoon for yourself, then please register your interest to attend NGT's next Tasmanian Field Day!Thursday 11st May 10:00am – 3:00pmFor those of you that were able to join us last...
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...
NGT, in partnership with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC), hosted a field day at Long Point and The Grange properties, which border Moulting Lagoon, on Tuesday 31st May 2022. The field day provided an opportunity for people who recently attended the NGT wetland restoration workshop...
After much discussion, planning and preparation, the second week of April was ear-marked for the exciting task of deploying water level and salinity loggers across the Apsley Marshes Ramsar site. Luckily, the weather was fine and despite some recent rain, the tracks into the main...
NGT hosted our inaugural Tasmanian wetland restoration workshop on Wednesday 4th May 2022, supported by NRM South, with funding provided via the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program. The workshop was attended by thirty-four people, including five NGT staff, and representatives from Tasmanian NRM organisations, the...
As a further sequel to last month's story about the commencement of saltmarsh restoration works adjacent to the Moulting Lagoon Ramsar site at Yard's Hole, this month we're taking a look at the early works completed next door at Long Point, a Tasmanian Land Conservancy...
Now that I have arrived back home in western Victoria after a stint based in Swansea last month on Tasmania's east coast, I thought I'd share a few more images of the restoration works at Yards Hole, the wetland we spoke about in last month's...
