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Community Weed-spotter training

WEED SPOTTING – the latest sport ?
Kathy McDonald. August 15 activity follow up

DPI & DSE have recently created a Weed Alert Programme to focus on new and emerging weeds in the environment.

“ … if we can prevent serious new weed introductions or identify and eradicate new infestations early then it is significantly cheaper and less time consuming than waiting until the weeds cover a large area”.

Weed Spotters can be anyone with an interest in plants including gardeners, farmers, teachers, students, members of community groups … Training activities & publications will be made available to anyone interested in identifying & collecting plants that may pose potential threats to our environment whether it be on public or private land eg. roadsides, parks, cemeteries, rubbish dumps, bushland, farmland and even nurseries. Larger towns & cities are not exempt from unwanted weed invasion. A Weed Alert Contact Officer or WACO … Read the rest

Threatened Species Group Survey – Clover Glycine

TSG survey Glycine latrobeana count (Clover Glycine)… Read the rest

Halls Gap Wildflower & Art Show

*October 5 – 9* Halls Gap Wildflower & Art Show including Threatened Flora Display.

Contact: Anne Dempster 5356 4426… Read the rest

New Committe Formed at AGM

*President: Stan Parfett*

Vice-president: Proo Pyke

Secretary: Kathy McDonald

Treasurer: Dot Hoffmann

Newsletter: Margo Sietsma

Committee:
* Mabel and Jan Bert Brouwer
* Ben and Leigh Gunn
* Ewen Johnson
* David Fletcher
* and anyone else that wants to be!… Read the rest

10am – Annual General Meeting

AGM(Annual General Meeting) and Red Gum walk inspection (BYO lunch).

We have applied for a community grant to help us restore the walk. By September we should know if we have been successful, and we can start making some plans. It is also time for our AGM.

Please try to come along. Maybe we might attract some new members to our committee!… Read the rest

Threatened Species Group – Small-leaf Wax-flower

TSG excursion to search for _Philotheca difformis subsp difformis_ Small-leaf Wax-flower. Meet either at Brambuk at 9:30am or the Beehive Falls car park at 10am. Please RSVP to Sylvia on 5361 4001 by Monday 17th September if you plan to attend.
We will be searching in the Bee Hive Falls to Briggs Bluff area, and it is quite a rough steep climb up from Bee Hive Falls so sturdy footwear please.… Read the rest

Brush tailed rock wallaby community action group

Meeting to discuss the community action group at 2 pm on Saturday 8th September at the Mural Room at the Parks Victoria offices at Halls Gap. Please contact Tony Corrigan on 5361 4021 if you are interested in attending.

For further information see this article… Read the rest

10am – Fungi and Orchid Frolic

An exploration on private property on the western side of the Park. We will probably be missing the wonderful expert knowledge of Dave Munro, but we may be lucky and he and Lyn can come after all. They have moved some distance away, so we wish them all the best in their new home, and hope that health permits them to join us from time to time.

Contact Ewen Johnson Lot 4 Samuels Rd Wartook. Ph 5383 6294 if you plan to attend (soup for lunch will be provided). … Read the rest

4pm – Weed Spotter Training

Community Weed Spotter Training in the Mural room at Brambuk . (Not a FOGGS activity, but one we feel is most important). Weed Spotters assist the Victorian Government through the Weed Alert program by keeping an eye open for and reporting new and emerging Weed Alert species. The Department of Primary Industries is holding an introductory information session at Halls Gap.

The session will provide information on:
* the role and importance of Weed Spotters
* what weeds to look for
* basic weed identification
* how to report suspected new weed infestations.

To register for this session please contact Chris Malins at DPI on 5362 0787.… Read the rest

Brush tailed rock wallaby community action group

Following the successful launch of the Brush tailed rock wallaby (BTRW) holding facility at Dunkeld last December Barry Clugston and Tony Corrigan have been considering ways for interested people to become involved with the brush tailed rock wallaby recovery project.

A number of individuals have expressed an interest in being more involved in the project and as a result of that interest it is proposed that a community based action group be formed.

Such a group could have a number of functions, some suggestions are:

* Raise awareness of the plight of the species and the efforts to conserve it. This program has very broad benefits for the ecological communities in BTRW habitat – for example the control of foxes has shown to have extensive benefits for small native mammal populations and fire management regimes that benefit BTRWs can also be used to conserve landscape values.

* Raise awareness of … Read the rest