New Landholder Participant Sign presented to local farmer
We have received our new landholder gate signs and are in the process of offering them to our past and current project participants for hanging on the property gates or project sites.
To celebrate the new signs, Second Nature Conservancy staff visited Taminga Beef near Woodside this week where we have undertaken considerable amounts of targeted on-farm biodiversity on-ground works with the farmer.
These actions included fencing watercourses, local native revegetation, erosion control, paddock tree plantings and weed control which were achieved through a range of past funding streams including Cudlee Creek Fire Recovery programs. These were implemented by Second Nature Conservancy through grant programs over several years.
It was great to see the terrific progress of the revegetation, present a new sign to the landowner and take a walk and talk through the developing revegetation, which was flowering and providing a range of feeding, roosting and sheltering habitat for a range of bird species. It was a joy to see the area providing useful habitat for native birds, which were busy feeding and calling throughout our visit. This revegetation is surrounded by ancient Eucalyptus camaldulensis trees throughout the adjoining paddocks, many which would be hundreds of years old.
Productive discussions were had with the landowner and between our team members on site with regards to how further improvements could be made to the revegetation. It was terrific to see how diverse and varied the structure and lifeforms had been represented in the plantings, which was a result of careful planning into plant selection and placement by our Project Officers and field planting team.
If you are currently involved in our on-ground works programs or have done so in the past and would like a gate sign, please come and see us at the Strathalbyn Natural Resource Centre, Strathalbyn where we can provide you with a sign for your gate.
Photos: S Glazbrook
