In the April edition of the NGT Newsletter we provided an update on hydrological restoration works in Square Waterhole Swamp, within Hesperilla Conservation Park, on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Mt Compass, in South Australia. Artificial drains were constructed several decades ago in a past...
NGT's long-term involvement with Square Waterhole Swamp, within Hesperilla Conservation Park has continued recently, thanks to funding from the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). Hesperilla, named for the extremely rare golden haired sedge-skipper (Hesperilla chrysotricha), is an important example of the critically endangered Fleurieu...
Over recent months I have managed to drop in on a number of NGT's longer-term wetland restoration sites from across SA, Victoria and Tasmania, to check current conditions. Given that a number of sites have experienced well below average rainfall in 2024, read on if...
Back in late March 2023, following a prescribed burn, NGT oversaw earthworks at Hesperilla Conservation Park, a reserve that protects an important remnant of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp ecological community. The earthworks backfilled several drains that were drawing groundwater out of the swamp...
Mark Bachmann presenting to the gathering at Mount Compass. Photo: Tessa Roberts On Saturday the 20th of May, we gathered with a group of swamp people...
In late March and early April, I was back on the Fleurieu Peninsula, near Mt Compass (SA), overseeing the latest round of works to rehydrate a couple of the most important remnant peatlands in this part of the world: Square Waterhole Swamp and Glenshera Swamp....
With staff based all the way from Tassie, to Dunkeld in Vic and Victor Harbor in SA, there are plenty of interesting things going on every day. So we've decided to share some photos from the field every month, to give our readers some insights...
Over the years at NGT we've worked on wetland restoration investigations and implemented projects at wide range of wetland types. If you have been following these stories for some time, you will have seen how valuable digital elevation data (a Digital Elevation Model or DEM,...
So what do tea bags have to do with swamps?...
Well, it's been quite a journey over the past 12 months in getting to know another important wetland on the Fleurieu Peninsula at Hesperilla CP (just south of Mt Compass), a small remnant portion of the originally much larger Square Waterhole Swamp. The original extent of Square...
