Bass Coast Landcare Welcomes You
Have you, like us, ever considered how important the land actually is to us? How vital its proper management and continuing health are to our well being and economy?
The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has praised the Bass Coast Landcare Network's efforts to control the spread of an invasive weed on Phillip Island. DPI officers recently inspected properties on the island to follow up on notices requiring landholders to control gorse. Read the ABC News report
Join us for two-hours planting and weeding in our local reserves. Starting on Sat 14-Apr, our activity days are scheduleed for a Saturday or Wednesday of each month.
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Join this Nurtient and Soils Managament event on 26-Apr-2012
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Join us at some of our planting and event days in 2012, socialise with other Landcare members, enjoy a free BBQ lunch, get your hands dirty and have a look at some great sites on Phillip Island!
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BCLN facilitator and data base manager Sarah Van Stokrom has returned from her year of travel and is back on board. As well as doing her usual monitoring, evaluation and data base management Sarah will be taking on the following roles:
• coordinating the Environmental Detectives Program
• taking over from Dave Bateman as facilitator of the Anderson Inlet group
• starting up the Lance creek/Kongwak group
I think we’d all agree its great to have Sarah’s skills and personality back in our midst.
Jacob Loughridge and Tess Hutton are taking part in a ' Singles Speed Planting' event that combines volunteer work with speed dating ...
Is your property located in the Westernport Catchment? Would you like financial assistance to help carry out projects that will restore and protect the environment on and around your land? Click on the image left to see the advertisement and then click on the title above to read more.
The past couple of wet years of have seen one of our major steep country erosion issues reemerge, that of landslip. This occurs in volcanic and sedimentary soils where subsoil water erodes a gap between the rock/clay below and soil above and causes sometimes very large chunks of water logged land to slip down the slope.