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Canna-Gutha drain update (January 2012)

- Posted on 20/02/12 12:53AM

The update to the Canna-Gutha drain can be found here:

Canna-Gutha Update Jan 2012

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Yarra Yarra Catchment Management Group successful in receiving funding through the Caring for our Country, Commumity Action Grants

- Posted on 14/12/11 06:26PM

The YYCMG have recently been successful in receiving funding from the Australian Government for a new project: "Reducing erosion and improving biodiversity with forage shrubs in the Yarra Yarra".
Project Description
The project will demonstrate how planting windbreaks to reduce wind erosion & improve on-farm soil management can also have benefits for biodiversity, as well as providing shelter & feed for stock. Incorporating forage shrubs into a farming system can increase productivity by providing green feed during the autumn feed gap, reducing the need for hand-feeding stock & protecting paddocks from over grazing.
This project will address issues of protecting soils from overgrazing, reducing wind erosion, making productive use of less productive land, reducing recharge to the water table and consequently reducing the spread of salinity, all leading to increased sustainability of farming, it will also address the issue of increasing biodiversity.
Project Activities
The project will set up three on-farm demonstration sites in the northern Yarra Yarra catchment. A diverse mix of native trees and shrubs will be planted at each site, either as a shelter belt, or to directly protect a site at risk of wind erosion. The species used will also be able to be grazed and used as shelter by livestock.
A free workshop/fieldwalk will be held to raise awareness of the importance of perennial forage shrubs in the farming system, explain the benefits to livestock and to visit the demonstration sites.

For more information about the project please contact Lizzie King; lizzie.king@bigpond.com

Yarra Yarra Catchment Management Group - Annual General Meeting

- Posted on 26/09/11 04:49PM

Yarra Yarra Catchment Management Group - Annual General Meeting

The AGM for the YYCMG will be held on Tuesday 18th October
The meeting starts at 10.00am in the Perenjori Office

The AGM will be followed by a general meeting.

Everybody is welcome so please come along!
Please email lizzie.king@bigpond.com with any agenda items

Thanks :smile:

Students help create Bushland corridors at Merkanooka

- Posted on 05/08/11 01:45PM

Around thirty thousand native tree and shrub seedlings have recently been planted in the Merkanooka area (west of Morawa) with funds received by the Yarra Yarra catchment group through a Caring for our Country, Community Action Grant, and with the collaboration of the Morawa High School and Morawa Ag school. Students from the high school had planned to assist with planting but heavy rains made the site unworkable (but great for the trees!).

Students from the high school listened intently to Jenny’s talk on various plants and the reasons for planting in the saline areas, and for creating bushland corridors.
A big thanks to Gavin Clarke from Morawa Ag school who helped coordinate students and planting for the project.

The native trees and shrubs have been planted alongside or near the existing deep drain that was installed in 2008. Native species have been chosen in order to maximise the long term survival of seedlings and to produce a biodiverse revegetation area. The plantings also help to link existing areas of remnant vegetation, which helps to create wildlife corridors in the region. These are especially important for many of the birds in the area.
Thanks to everyone in Morawa involved in making the project a success.

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