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Activity:  Propagating tussock grasses. Description:  Today we’ll be propagating a few thousand more tussock grasses for use in our revegetation along the creek.  Growing our own saves us about $7,000.00 in purchase costs.  You’ll have some fun and learn how easy (and inexpensive!) it is to grow these plants from seed.  Where:  Up the back of …

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Help to clean up up rubbish along the creeks and trails, followed by a social morning tea. Meet: We'll meet here at the bus shelter next to Winters Flat Footbridge, Johnstone Street (Midland Highway), Castlemaine, and then spread out to various locations to gather rubbish and return to Winters Flat. Early Start: We'll start early …

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Activity:  reviving Lewis Swamp south with direct seeding. Description:  Within our ‘territory’, ‘Lewis Swamp’ south had one of our worst infestation of crack willows, a weed of national significance and a food source for European wasps.  After three years of volunteer work and help from the North Central CMA, this area is finally free of this …

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Activity:  improving potential habitat for Eltham Copper Butterfly. Description:  Connecting Country has funded us to improve the suitability of some of ‘our territory’ for the nationally endangered Eltham Copper Butterfly.  You can read more about it on the Connecting Country web page.  You’ll see that one of the butterfly’s essential requirements is the Sweet Bursaria plant …

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The committee is inviting all members to a special General Meeting to review and adopt a document governing our group: our 'Rules of Association'. We have not needed such a document previously; as a member of Landcare Victoria Incorporated, we received many benefits of belonging to an incorporated body.  Unfortunately, the Australian Tax Office will …

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Spear Grass Valley and Lewis Rise revisited Please come for a walk through some rarely visited areas of our restoration efforts with a little maintenance work to help heal this part of the Country.  We’ll be recovering and repositioning tree guards, and dealing with priority weeds. Mount Alexander Shire Council as manager &/or owner of …

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Activity: National Tree Day 2024 planting at Lewis Swamp south with celebration BBQ afterwards. Description: Please come along today to help us restore this interesting swampy area adjacent to the trail.  What we call Lewis Swamp south was a prior alignment of the creek, evidenced by the pebbly ground in much of the low-lying parts. …

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Activity:  MASSIVE planting at Lewis Swamp south! Description: Please come along today to help us restore this wetland area adjacent to the trail. As a prior alignment of the creek, this low-lying area has some beautiful mini-billabongs and shallow wetlands.  In fact, the creek itself is also a wetland (and we’ll focus on the creek banks …

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The Friends of Campbells Creek invites all members to our 2024 Annual General Meeting on Wednesday August 21 at the Five Flags Hotel in Campbells Creek.  We'll be gathering at 6 p.m. for a social meal prior to the meeting, and invite you to join us for the meal, the meeting or both. The AGM itself …

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