In last's months newsletter, John filled us in on the success of the recent successful prescribed burn at Mt Vandyke, undertaken to help reduce biomass as a key step in the process to prepare the site for re-establishment of native grassland habitat.As it turns out,...
Our Community Nursery site at Vansittart Park is in a fantastic central location for our volunteers, and allows us to grow seedlings for numerous restoration projects. However, space at our small nursery is limited and we have nowhere to expand, and this year's planting season...
Colleen lighting the hilltop burn As some of you may have read in previous blogs, Mount Vandyke in an NGT restoration reserve, in in the heart of Cobboboonee National Park in Victoria. The site is a volcanic peak, which has been historically cleared for grazing and...
For followers of our journey to restore the native vegetation of Mount Vandyke, we can share the positive news that everything is progressing well. The Tussock Grass (Poa labillardierei) planted in June are doing particularly well, some have even flowered and set seed! We're...
While I was in Darwin recently for the Society for Ecological Restoration's International Conference, I was asked to do a short interview for the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) to give some insights into NGT's approach to the restoration of ecological processes. While there...
As you may have gathered from some of the other articles this month, the last four weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind, personally taking me from north to south, right across this vast continent. As well as attending the SER2023 conference in Darwin,...
Thanks to a recent episode of ABC TV's Back Roads, I've had a few people reach out in the past couple of weeks to ask me about my own 'backyard' in the cross-border zone between Victoria and South Australia - a special part of the...
On a wet couple of days in early June the long-awaited first stage of habitat restoration works got underway at Mount Vandyke. 3000+ grasses and sedges from Arborline Nursery in Hamilton were planted by Nature Glenelg Trust staff into the scalped (i.e. scraped) trial site...
Members of the South West Eastern Quoll Hub gathered at Mt Sturgeon Station. Photo: Mark Bachmann On Tuesday 23rd May 2023, members of the South West Eastern Quoll Hub got together for another catch-up, this time at the Dunkeld Pastoral Co.'s Mt Sturgeon Station property, near...
In the latest positive NGT news, I am delighted to announce that we are making two fantastic additions to the NGT team: Dr Ayesha Burdett, our new Senior Wetland Restoration Ecologist, to oversee our upcoming wetland restoration projects in western Victoria, and John Bradford, our new...
