Current ongoing projects :

A.Corangamite Landcare 2nd generation Project The current Landcare program is a project called 'Looking after Your Creeks' based at two  local sites:

 1. The crown land at Somerville Road at the far end of Macs Road in Buninyong where the Buninyong Creek flows.( It is also known as Union Jack Creek)

This site has had  gorse removal work done through the DSE's Good neighbours scheme. Several local neighbours have benefitted from a contribution from the Victorian Gorse Taskforce to help them remove gorse from their private property where it joins the crown land.   Revegetation work on the far bank has started. (see home page).

Ballarat Christian College hard at work

 2.Glasson Road site where Napoleons/Enfield Landcare Group have been planting for three years on the banks of the Yarrowee 

The second site will continue to be planted and restored by the Landcare group. Both sites will provide educational opportunites for the community to see what Landcare work is all about and encourage them to get involved.

  B. River Health 2nd Year program: Projects on land adjacent to selected sections of the Yarrowee /Leigh River to protect the bankside from overgrazing and erosion.

Funding for the second year of this program means that 13 landholders have or are still to carry out fencing and revegetation on their properties to benefit the quality of the river water,the stabilsation of the river bank, to provide increased biodiversity and to aid stock management. Expressions of Interest are currently being sought for River health 3 projects. This need to be submitted to the CCMA by  October 21st for funding so you need to contact Jenny Ryle as soon as possible. Tel 0353 412364 

 C.Landscape Zone Action Plans:  Landscape scale documents assessing assets, threats, and actions needed, have been produced for each of fifteen zones in the Corangamite region, Currently these are being cross referenced with the local Leigh Catchment Action Plan and the documents for Leigh and part of the Murdeduke zones have been through a community consultation. These documents now form an investment document for CCMA funded projects.

D.Funding Grants: Funding for Landcare work is sourced from a number of places. In the past few months the LCG has been able to to find funds last year from a selection of sources to:

1. provide guard material against cattle for river red gum seedlings from paddock trees 

2. create a wildife cooridor connecting the river to remnant trees on a new subdivision

3. help a Landcare group to undertake gorse control on public land, particularly along roads

4. More recently, continue a whole farm plan to provide a network of revegetation long creeklines and fences.  

E.Educational programs out on sites with schools: Last year there were programs with:

Scotsburn PS Years 3 and up

Damascus Year 10  

Ballarat Christian College

Buninyong PS Year 4's 

Vocational Education Training students

Conservation and land management students,UB 

In addition several schools, including the Steiner school at Mt Helen, have put in for Junior Landcare grants for school grounds projects