With autumn well and truly underway, it’s time to get ready for the winter planting season! Parklands Albury Wodonga invites the community to join our 20-day planting blitz! Our planting blitz last year at sites such as areas of the Wodonga Creek floodplain at Carrols Lane and along the Kiewa River were an overall success with over 5000 native seedlings going in the ground! And over the entire 2024 winter planting season, Parklands, partners, and volunteers planted a massive 19,250 seedlings!

This year we are targeting an area at the Nationally Significant Ryans Lagoon Wetlands, a site at which traditional land management is being practised by Duduroa Dhargal Aboriginal Corporation. We need your help to transform this bare paddock…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…into something as biodiverse as the Mullinmur Billabongs in Wangaratta. Kudos to Wangaratta Landcare and Sustainability Inc. volunteers and their many partners for the amazing achievements transforming these wetlands!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They say many hands make light work, so let us know if you’d like to get involved by contacting us!

Over the summer, Parklands were grateful to employ two university student interns to help with all manner of woody weeding on the islands that also form a part of this four-year project. Sophie Williams and Harry Hogden have made short work of weeds on Turtle Island and on Browns Island, which will be one of next winter’s planting sites. Just check out this before and after of the large tree of heaven forest at the Browns Island site!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parklands and partners are very grateful for the funding provided by the Victorian Government’s ‘BushBank’ program for this long-term project which means we have plenty of time to remove weeds, install stock exclusion fencing, and revegetate.