Celebrating Dedication: YAN Honours Volunteers and Presents the 2025 John Betts Landcare Award
On a recent autumn evening in Murrumbateman, the Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups (YAN) gathered to celebrate the incredible spirit of volunteerism that drives our Landcare community. At the heart of the event was the presentation of the the groups John Betts Landcare Award, this year awarded to
The Dry - It's Hurting
Hopefully, by the time you read this, the ground will be damp, the dams full and a tinge of green will be gracing the landscape. Meanwhile, I am finding it hard to walk about this parched landscape without feeling down about the dead shrubs and the crunching, desiccated plant life underfoot. Half-empty dams are a sad sight, empty ones are horrible.
Since the huge dump
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Practical Solutions for Erosion: Landholders Build Skills in Bowning
Bowning Bookham Landcare, in partnership with Local Land Services, recently hosted a hands-on Small Scale Erosion Control Workshop in Bowning. The workshop attracted local landholders keen to learn more about managing and slowing erosion on their properties using practical, low-cost methods.
Throughout the day, participants gained a better understanding of the different types of
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Weeds Beware! Sutton Landcare Springs into Action at the Reserve
It was a beautiful Sunday morning when 9 people gathered at the Sutton Reserve behind the school. Recognised as a valuable original native box gum woodland It Is under attack by weeds, and we are trying to improve it for the first time in 30 years or so.
The Sutton Landcare Group now has permission from Crown Lands to start work like weeding and cleaning up. It was a
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