I recently completed sampling on the River Torrens that provided ongoing assessment of water quality improvements and the installation of fish ladders - restoration initiatives by the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board. Many of you will have opinions based on your own observations...
The winter edition of From the Ground Up has been out for a little while, but in case you missed it, the NGT stories that featured in the latest edition can be downloaded in pdf format here: Yarra Pygmy Perch Article, by Lauren Veale - Page...
Over the past two years the Portland Community Garden Landcare Group, local volunteers and the NGT Cross-border Community Nursery Project have put in an amazing amount of thought and effort to landscape an area where they could establish a diverse native garden to share with...
It has been a busy week for Natural Resources South East’s Landscape Links and NGT’s Community Nursery projects at our Eaglehawk Waterhole property! Cassie Hlava, the Bushland Restoration Project Officer for the Landscape Links Project, is undertaking over 30 hectares of restoration and revegetation on...
From Rose Thompson - Last Sunday 25 volunteers, thankful for the blue sunny skies, planted more than 1000 grasses, rushes, wildflowers, shrubs and trees at the Native Plant Display Garden in Henty Street, Portland. The indigenous plant garden, which features a wetland area and edible ‘bush...
With the end of financial year upon us, the whole NGT crew has been busy with a number of different projects nearing completion - so sorry for the blog going quiet for a few weeks! A number of reports have been completed and submitted, and some...
In some very recent, exciting news, I am pleased to announce that earlier in June (after a lengthy competitive tender process), Nature Glenelg Trust was awarded the contract to deliver the Restoring the Underrepresented Ecological Communities of the South East (or RUEC) project. The RUEC project...
A second planting day was recently held at the Natural Resources South East (NR-SE) building in Helen Street, Mount Gambier, following the initial planting last year. NR-SE and NGT staff were grateful for the assistance of TAFE SA horticulture students and their lecturer Joley Didwell...
The rains of the last week or two have certainly started to make a difference to wetlands along our coast, with levels in Long Swamp and at the Nobles Rocks outlet being nudged back up again over recent days. Since the last update, Lachlan and I...
For those of you that have followed the progress of the Gooseneck Swamp Restoration Trial over the past 12 months, I am pleased to be able to provide you with a copy of the final summary report. The pdf of the report can be downloaded here:...
