During 2019 members of the YAN Climate Ready project team worked with Nola Hancock from Macquarie University, the author of the Climate Ready Revegetation guide.  This guide was a major reference document in the YAN Climate Ready project. The video below shows Nola Hancock providing an an explanation of the Climate Ready Revegetation Guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tsHxIWz9v0%20

The second video shows members of the YAN Climate Ready team using the NicheFinder product which enables a user to determine the likely climate tolerance of defined plants - this information enables us to determine if the plant could survive in our regions future projected climate.  Further information on the YAN Climate Ready Project is available under the Project tab. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVb3KwFHWI&feature=youtu.be

The Wilson family of Yass Landcare are using technology so that Landcare volunteers can comply with COVID-19 meeting restrictions.  Nursery volunteers are regularly required to water the historical Yass Hospital Roses located at the nursery site, to sow some of the groups native seed range, to weed or thin new seedlings etc.  Even in the upcoming cooler months plant nursery maintenance doesn't stop.  So if your Landcare group has a vital project that needs regular maintenance this SignUp product may assist you to comply with COVID-19 meeting restrictions but keep vital projects progressing two people at a time.  

Over the very hot Summer of 2019-2020 while our region had drought and other regions had extensive fires, some the YAN nursery volunteers expressed an interest in identifying plants which have fire retardant attributes. This list is our first attempt of such a list for our region using references mainly from the Australian Native Plant society.  

Bowning-Bookham Landcare members are also keen to expand our regions fire retardant list to include exotic plants.  Exotic seed has been ordered and will be grown at a Bowning-Bookham site over Autumn-Winter. If you have a keen interest in the identification and confirmation of fire resistant plants for our region please email Kath McGuirk YAN Chair, Kath McGuirk. 

  Acacia buxifolia is one of the fire retardant acacias grown across YAN nurseries.

The Murrumbateman Landcare group recently received funding from a Michael King Landcare grant to enable the purchase of native seed for nursery propagation of local species as part of the YAN Climate Ready Revegetation Project. Seed will be acquired from a number of bio-regions in order to enhance genetic diversity of local species; this is considered best scientific practice to assist adaptation to a rapidly changing climate. Seed will be sourced with the assistance of Greening Australia which has an extensive seed collecting network.

Seed from several bioregions has already been acquired for Eucalyptus melliodora (Yellow Box), Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (Sticky Hop Bush) and Acacia deanei subsp. paucijuga (Green Wattle sometimes known as Acacia decurrens var. paucijuga).