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Have you heard that Bega Valley Shire Council is reviewing its Community Strategic Plan and wants to find out about: What things do you love? What would you change? and How do you imagine our future? The Community Strategic Plan identifies the main priorities and aspirations of the community and provides strategies to achieve this vision […]
Find out more about the new flora reserves that have been created in this area in the coastal forests between Tanja and Bermagui. This Saturday 23 April 9am-1pm at Tanja Hall on Barrabooka Road there will be information and displays on the reserves, fire management, koala surveys and volunteering opportunities. If you’d like to learn more about koala monitoring […]
Supporters of Landcare are invited to attend the official opening of the Far South Coast Landcare Association’s new office in Bega. The FSCLA will also be welcoming Chris Post, the new Local Landcare Coordinator for the Far South Coast, and kicking off the 10 year Bush Connect Project. When: Friday 29th April at 4 pm Where: […]
Rick and Fiona Stafford live at Frogs Hollow on a 100 acre property with one of the few remaining ‘valley fill’ swamps along major waterways in the Bega catchment. They are about to start a project with the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority to protect the swamp from erosion. Rick and Fiona moved to the […]
Pauline Mendes made great use of what she learnt at a CMN Seed Collection workshop three years ago. Looking for a solution to rampant fireweed, she now has a paddock of trees which she grew from local native seed. This is what she wrote for the CMN Newsletter Autumn 2011: I attended a seed collection […]
Liz Bateman & Richard Hobbs began planting trees on their 500 acre dairy property at Bemboka about 20 years ago. To provide shade for their cattle they planted a number of individual eucalypts in each paddock, adding to the few large remnant eucalypts scattered across the farm. About five years later they embarked on a […]
Ted has lived in the Candelo area all his life. He spent most of his working life in dairy farming and at Bega Cheese and now lives at ‘Carolina’, on the Bega River between Candelo and Bega, at Kanoona Rocks. Ted and his wife Gwen bought ‘Carolina’ in 1963 when it was subdivided from the […]
After three successful BioBlitzes on the Far South Coast, The Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness is organising this year’s BioBlitz in the Wallagoot Catchment on Friday 4th – Saturday 5th December. The basecamp is the Bournda Environmental Education Centre. For those who haven’t been to a BioBlitz, the aim is to bring together the community, scientists […]
Don and Gwen Mc Gregor will present the results of a remarkable 6-year study of the Superb Lyrebird in Moruya State Forest. There will be photos, videos and sound recordings – some rare – as well as Don’s exposition of the bird’s life and habits. When: Tuesday 17 November 2015. Come at 6pm and […]
John Blay will launch his latest book, On Track – Searching out the Bundian Way, at Candelo Books on Thursday 6th August at 5pm, with an interview by local historian Mark McKenna. On Track tells the story of the search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko (Targangal) and Twofold Bay (Tulemulerer) near Eden […]
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