Greetings everyone. This is our 1st newsletter this year, due to difficulty finding an Editor since Margo left. Thanks to Catherine Carlyle for stepping in for this issue. There has also been difficulty in getting rain these last couple of seasons; wetlands and waterholes have dried up, which on top of the fires in the Grampians has been very tough on wildlife and vegetation.
FOGG has held activities in February, March and April. In February Sarah Cole gave us an update on: Brush Tailed Rock Wallaby, and other, post-fire feeding programmes, pest control, shelter pods, the small mammal trapping project, and pest plants. In March we joined in the annual clean-up day, at The Pines (no nappies! but a lot of small items, and blown-about tree cages). April saw us removing Sallow Wattle regrowth near Halls Gap. For reports on these events, please see below.
There has been, and still are, many other Group’s activities going on, which FOGG members have been welcomed at. (see below).
So, welcome to winter in the Grampians. It’s heartening to see (vulnerable) regrowth after the fires, plus unburnt shrubs and heathland plants coming into flower – it doesn’t all happen in the Spring-time!
Leigh.