The Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN) is proud to announce that Sue McIntyre, a local landowner and Vice-President of Murrumbateman Landcare Group (MLG), has been awarded the 2025 John Betts Landcare Award. This honour recognises her outstanding and long-term

Growing plants from seed sourced from a wide range of provenances is a key strategy in YAN’s Climate Ready Revegetation project. A common question we hear is: Will plants grown from seed collected far away actually thrive in our region?

To help answer this, we established an experimental trial in 2021 using three species— Eucalyptus melliodora

The Friends of Yass Gorge have been hard at work this autumn, tackling weeds and helping to maintain the health of this unique and important natural space.

The Yass Gorge is home to a critically endangered ecological community — the Natural Temperate Grassland. Protecting this area means actively managing and controlling non-native plant species that threaten the

The majority of the plants grown in YAN’s nurseries are ‘Climate Ready’. This means they are local species that have demonstrated the ability to survive in a hotter climate (you can read more about how we assess species here). The second key factor is that we source seed from both local and non-local