THE Friends of Woady Landcare Group are continuing their work along the Woady Yaloak River with a tree planting day tomorrow.<\/p>\n
All community members are welcome to come along to the event and help the group plant a range of grasses and understory plants.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is replanting areas and we have a project area between Whites Road and the Snake Valley Road,\u201d said club president Bill MacNeill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been removing gorse, blackberries, Hawthorn, and other weeds and cleaning up the whole river so people can access it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan is for us now to start replanting native grasses and trees in some of those areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The community has been working on replanting this area for 20 years and Mr MacNeill said there has been great progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire area was completely infested by gorse and it was almost impossible to access the river so huge amounts of work have been done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo control gorse you need to continually work on it because the seed bed remains in the ground for many, many years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe major different is also that we now have a walking track along the bank for the community and a small picnic area.\u201d<\/p>\n
New members are encouraged to join Woady Landcare by coming along to the tree planting day or contacting the group.<\/p>\n
The tree planting day will commence at 9am tomorrow. For more information visit the Friends of Woady Landcare Group Facebook or contact Mr MacNeill on 0409 145 267.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE Friends of Woady Landcare Group are continuing their work along the Woady Yaloak River with a tree planting day tomorrow. All community members are welcome to come along to the event and help the group plant a range of grasses and understory plants. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is replanting areas and we have a project […]<\/p>\n