Draft Victorian Landcare Program Strategic Plan: Feedback Opportunity

The Victorian Government has recently released its draft Victorian Landcare Program Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is intended to provide a strategic framework to guide government support for Landcare through the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

The draft is open for comment until 30 June. This provides an opportunity for Landcare groups, individuals and networks to have input into how the state government supports Landcare across Victoria.

Submissions can include any key areas or issues that may have been overlooked, or sections in the draft that may require further detail or explanation.

To obtain a copy of the draft visit:
http://www.landcarevic.net.au/resources/landcare-policy/victorian-landcare-program-strategic-plan

Submissions close soon, so get cracking if you'd like to have your input!

Facilitator Consultation

• Discuss Landcare issues 

• Explore project ideas and discuss funding options

• Receive assistance for your group for grant applications, media, planning and more 

Feel free to drop by! Please ring Anthony to make an appointment. 

9am-1pm Thursdays 

Dingee Bush Nursing Centre, 

21 King St, Dingee 

M: 0447 095 501 

Ph: (03) 5446 9249 

Email: anthony.gallacher@gmail.com

 

NUFG Kamarooka Project Education Centre opening

The Hon Peter Walsh MP (right), Mr Paul Weller MP (left) and NUFG Chairman Ian Rankin (centre) during plaque unveiling

Kamarooka Project Education Centre opened 3rd June 2012

NUFG member Phil Dyson speaks during the opening

Official proceedings were followed by tree planting at the site

Attendees enjoyed a BBQ lunch and a site tour

2 Million Trees grant opportunity

The Victorian Government and the Department of Sustainability and Environment are running an initiative to plant 2 million trees by 2014. Groups can apply for funds to purchase tree seedlings, tree guards, stakes, weed control etc for tree planting projects that provide public environmental benefit along waterways in regional Victoria. Applications for round 1 close 5pm 2 July 2012.

See the website for more details: http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/conservation-and-environment/biodiversity/2-million-trees

Workshops deliver ideas

Participants enjoy a meal together at the Serpentine Workshop

The Loddon Plains Landcare Network (LPLN) workshop series in May was a great success. 36 participants from the local area attended the workshops across Wedderburn, Serpentine and Dingee. 

Mal Brown presents on the NCCMA Regional Catchment Strategy

Attendees enjoyed supper before hearing presentations from the LPLN and the North Central Catchment Management Authority (NCCMA). Attendees were keen to discuss priority areas and projects in their local area, using large maps to draw out their ideas. Small and large scale projects for the Loddon Plains were canvassed. The list of project ideas obtained will be collated for input into the LPLN blueprint strategy document.

The LPLN would like to thank everyone who participated and thanks to Jodie Odgers and Malcolm Brown from the NCCMA for assisting in the organisation of the workshops.

NUFG Kamarooka Education Centre Opening

The Northern United Forestry Group (NUFG) would like to announce the official opening of the Kamarooka Project Education Centre, by the Hon. Peter Walsh M.P. on Sunday 3 June 2012 at 11.30am.

The NUFG began revegetating 50ha of salt affected land at the Kamarooka site in 2004. Since that time a remarkable transformation has taken place on previously unproductive farm land. Native hardwood plantations comprising interspersed eucalypts and acacias now grow tall along the margins of the most saline lands, and large stands of Old Man Saltbush thrive on the most degraded soils. Equally large biodiversity plantings flourish in land that was once thought lost forever.

NUFG's dedication to monitoring and community education has seen the site arguably become the key learning facility for dryland salinity reclamation in South East Australia, providing first-hand knowledge to a diverse range of schools, Universities, land managers and scientists each year. NUFG have responded to the increasing visitor demand by building an Education Centre.

LPLN members are invited to join NUFG to celebrate the opening of the new centre, followed by a BBQ lunch, site tours and biodiversity planting.

Click on attached flyer for more information. RSVP to the following address if you are intending to participate:  nufg@nufg.org.au

Dingee Workshop next Wednesday

REMINDER: The final of the Loddon Plains Landcare Network Workshops is being held next Wednesday 16th May from 7pm-9pm at the East Loddon P-12 College, Dingee.

The workshop aims to encourage members of the community to come and share their knowledge of local environmental assets that they value and would want to see conserved or managed into the future. At the workshop individuals will be encouraged to add such information, in the form of notes, map references, word of mouth etc, to information already gathered by the LPLN. The night will run as follows:

7.00 pm
Supper provided

7.30 pm
Welcome
Laurie Maxted, President, Loddon Plains Landcare Network

7.35 pm
GOANNA Project
Local groups and the blueprint for landscape restoration across the Loddon Plains
Anthony Gallacher, Landcare Facilitator, Loddon Plains Landcare Network

8.10 pm
Victorian 2012 Landcare Grants
A funding opportunity
Jodie Odgers, Regional Landcare Coordinator, North Central CMA

8.35 pm
2012-18 Regional Catchment Strategy
Regional priorities and your local patch
North Central CMA representative

9.00 pm
Close

For catering purposes please RSVP to Anthony Gallacher by the Monday before the event, by phone 5446 9249, mobile 0447 095 501 or email anthony.gallacher@gmail.com.