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Let’s go ‘around the grounds’… an end of year visual update on some of our major wetland restoration projects after a wet spring
Over the past month, I have tried to drop in to a number of our major wetland restoration sites in SA and Victoria, given the unusually wet spring weather which has given most of these sites a real boost heading in to a later-than-usual summer...An unfolding case study in habitat restoration – Stipiturus Conservation Park
To follow up last month’s story about Glenshera Swamp, this month we’re checking back in to see how things were looking after the first rains post-restoration works, as well as sharing our latest project summary (which was handed out at Swamp Fest 2022), and taking...Past editions of the NGT monthly email newsletter
Dig through the archives… you can click on the image or hyperlinked text below to see each edition of the monthly NGT newsletter as it appears when we mail out the newsletter to our subscribers. These are listed in reverse chronological order, back to the...What happens when water levels change or the ground sinks beneath our feet? – Let’s talk about subsidence in drained peatlands and just how much wetland plants move around
Posted on 23 Nov 2021 at 10:10h
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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,...
‘Wetland Restoration 101’ – Reading the landscape with NGT (recorded at the Tasmanian Landcare Conference)
On Saturday the 2nd of October, I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the 2021 Tasmanian Community Landcare conference in Launceston. The only problem is that thanks to Covid-19 impacting on travel options, I couldn’t attend in person! But every cloud has...Tackling Common Reed infestation of a Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp at Yundi Nature Conservancy
The invasion and displacement of more diverse wetland vegetation by Phragmites australis (common reed) is an issue affecting many Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps, including some of the most intact examples such as Glenshera Swamp. Phragmites is a native wetland plant with a cosmopolitan distribution (native to...Sharing the “blue-print” for restoring Fleurieu Peninsula swamps
Posted on 22 Jul 2021 at 10:02h
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Now that many of us are temporarily stuck at home again, it feels to me like a lifetime ago – but just a few weeks back, I managed to check in on one of my favourite places on the Fleurieu Peninsula – Glenshera Swamp. This...
The mysterious case of the disappearing sandbag structures…
Posted on 19 Mar 2020 at 17:30h
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Glenshera Swamp, the largest and most intact example of the critically endangered Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps ecological community, has been the focus of NGT hydrological restoration for over three years now. In April 2017 we back-filled several old drains that had been cut through the peat...