{"id":104078,"date":"2025-12-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=104078"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:13:14","slug":"tips-and-talks-as-landcare-groups-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/tips-and-talks-as-landcare-groups-get-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and talks as Landcare groups get together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">THREE local Landcare groups have shared their knowledge and expertise in separate site visits in Scotchmans Lead and Smythesdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Napoleons Enfield group was involved in both events \u2013 hosting one and being the visitor at the other \u2013 which took the form of evening walks and inspection tours.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, last Wednesday, the group hosted a small contingent of Bald Hills Landcare Group members at the site of its work in Scotchmans Lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the second event, a total of 22 people got together for the Napoleons Enfield group&#8217;s visit to the Friends of Woady Landcare Group to inspect its work in Smythesdale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One group came to us and we went out to another group,&#8221; Napoleons Enfield group project manager Jenny Ryle said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ryle said a member of the Bald Hills group knew Napoleons Enfield had done a lot of work restoring the Yarrowee River and was keen to find out more about it because a creek ran through their property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So they came down; there was four of them and four of us, we went for a wander,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were asking questions and we were telling them exactly what we&#8217;d done \u2013 mistakes we&#8217;d made and things that had worked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Napoleons Enfield group has focused on two kilometres of riverbank at Scotchmans Lead, which Ms Ryle said was thick with gorse, blackberry and hemlock 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You couldn&#8217;t walk along it, it was full of rabbits,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working in that area since about 2013, and we put in about 2000 plants a year. The whole area now is about 11 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve got more of a small creek whereas we&#8217;re on the Yarrowee, which has its own problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were just interested in what we put in \u2013 why we put it in, what plants we put in, what species\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ryle said the group&#8217;s visit on Thursday stemmed from the fact that members knew the Friends of Woady group had done a lot of work in and around Smythesdale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been working for three or four years along there, and they&#8217;ve done a magnificent job along that (Woady Yaloak) creek,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve done an amazing job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Ryle said the two events were both a way of sharing knowledge and celebrating the work done by the three groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now have a koala that&#8217;s come down into Scotchmans Lead,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re very excited and we feel honoured that koalas would come into the created habitat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THREE local Landcare groups have shared their knowledge and expertise in separate site visits in Scotchmans Lead and Smythesdale. 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