Category: General

Connecting Country has been busy distributing nest boxes designed for Brush-tailed Phascogales throughout the Shire. We have half a dozen on our property at Woodbrook. During monitoring, Bryan McMullan from Connecting Country discovered Sugar Gliders (Petaurus breviceps) in several of the boxes and took the following photographs. Sugar Gliders are assessed as ‘widespread but scattered’…

Members and supporters of local Landcare groups had a rare opportunity to visit the Muckleford Gorge on Sunday 15 May.  The visit was scheduled as an activity of the Friends of the Box Ironbark Forests group (FOBIF).  As a first-time visitor to this much-vaunted but somewhat secretive location, I was wondering if the Gorge would…

Lewis Road has been identified as having significant roadside vegetation and is lined with remnant Yellow Box, Grey Box and River Red Gum.  The recent flood events have seen a significant number of very large trees falling and in many instances taking with them large branches of adjacent trees. Trees have been failing in the…

Muckleford Catchment Landcare Group has entered the digital age with its own blog. This will be a repository for news, events, activities and images for the Group, and hopefully a place for members of the Muckleford region to share stories and information.