Gunning District Landcare Group

The first ever GDL meeting will be a low key and informal gathering at Woodlands, 263 Iron Mines Road, Ladevale.  Full details will follow in the next few weeks. 

When:Sunday 28 February starting around 11.30am for a 12noon self catered lunch.  This will be on the veranda of the house but could be at a wetland dam depending on weather.  People not coming for lunch should arrive by 2pm when the short tour starts.

Format and Features: We will be highlighting Whole of Paddock Rehabilitation [WOPR] and, to a lesser extent, farm dams [where there is a lot of work to be done but we can point to some lessons].

Casual lunch.  A very short background to work done on Woodlands.  We hope to introduce an ANU honours student who is studying WOPRs under the guidance of Greening Australia's Graham Fifield.  Miriam is researching what various WOPR sites will look like over time.  She will give a short informal presentation on this.

Around 2pm we will drive to our WOPR site.  While ambling around, Miriam and the Spillers will talk about what worked and didn't, etc and the very real benefits.  There are also two new dams on the WOPRs where we could do some self help "what needs to happen here" discussion.  All up should be around 4 hours.

The GDL newsletter is attached.