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Events & Activities

Creek Health Monitoring Project is on this month!

October 29, 2021 by mccgadmin

The Spring sampling events for the Creek Health Monitoring Project (CHMP) are being held on Saturday November 20th, Wednesday 24th and Saturday 27th. Lots of volunteers are needed for this fun and interesting experience where you will learn more about our local creeks. See the flyer below.

To participate please register through Eventbrite – families welcome!

To find out more about CHMP click here

 

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Evening Talk – Thursday Sept 23rd with guest speaker Dr Manda Page

September 12, 2021 by mccgadmin

Avoiding extinction – the challenges of working with threatened species in Queensland

Thursday 23rd September 2021, Brookfield Hall, 6.30pm for 7.00pm

Speaker: Dr Manda Page

Queenlsand has 1020 threatened species listed under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. All of these species are considered to be at risk of extinction and there are many, many more that we simply don’t have enough information about to assess their risk. Working to avoid these species going extinct is a challenging task, but there are teams of dedicated people in government, the private sector and the community that are taking up the challenge.  We will explore some of these challenges and the inspirational work being undertaken to fight against extinction in Queensland.

Dr Manda Page is the Director of Threatened Species Operations with the Queensland Department of Environment and Science. She has worked on threatened species recovery in various forms over the past 30 years.  Dr Page completed her PhD in ecology at the University of Queensland then continued as an academic, teaching students about conservation. She moved to Western Australia to take up a role with a private conservation organisation (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) then the Western Australian Government as their Principal Zoologist. She returned to Queensland in 2019 to take up this specialised threatened species role. Dr Page will share some of the highlights and challenges of her career and current role.

Photo: Dr Manda Page

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A note from Phil – September 2017

September 19, 2017 by mccgadmin

Well, this dry it has been challenging to keep our plantings from drying out. Our latest planting on the creek bank and what the Green Army did late last year and early this year is mostly doing all right.


A lot of the planting is becoming established with some struggling and a few lost causes. Becoming harder to find enough water is the problem.

However there are still little delights. Julia Blumhardt, Creek Officer standing in for Leah, had a look at our site and found a couple of new plants (for me) Blood vine (Aust. blackii) and Purple Cheese Fruit (Acronychia laevia) and what maybe a troublesome weed vine, Mysore thorn. 


I am still working with Paul Devine (Habitat Brisbane Officer) to complete the submission for a Habitat Brisbane Application. We’re re-drafting to just include Council land, which covers the road margins and culverts. It has a total length of 900m, which with 10 m margins gives 18,000 m2. We are hoping to have it ready for the October meeting when the management committee meets. Any one who wants more information please get in touch with me. 

Russell Downes stopped by a couple of weeks ago and offered to run his slasher over the Elephant Grass. After a few moments of deliberation (on my part) Russell did point out “it is only elephant grass”. So that would be great as it would enable us to see the lie of the land and treat the Maderia and Morning Glory that is growing quite nicely in the grass. It will also help to keep the channel open. 

If there are any interesting wildlife sightings please let us know. Mine is a pair (unfortunately past..) of Dewfish in a small drying pool. 

Hope to see some of you on Sunday 24 September for the WB or morning tea and please bring a plate to share.

Phil

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A note from Phil – August 2017

August 23, 2017 by mccgadmin

A picnic table is on its way

Greg made a suggestion last year that we have a picnic table near the creek in the area under the mature trees. Brooke Lett of Galvin Road has offered to build our picnic table. 

Things to do

We have four more working bees this year and a couple next year before the threat of heavy rain events and flooding. The area near the culvert needs to be protected with plants and rocks. 

While we can never be sure what damage the flooding will have and on each occasion we lose plants and creek bank. However some bank and plants remain and so we repair and over time we will stabilize the bank with native vegetation instead of been overgrown with exotic grasses and vines. This is what we have been doing on our creek bank for the past number of years, So this is why we have been concentrating on this area. 

In addition, we need to keep the elephant grass out of the main creek channel and keep the access to the creek open. This allows regrowth and regeneration of native plants which in time will replace the exotic weeds.  I am hoping we can also keep open secondary channels by slashing along side these. We have started to do this with one from the far culvert running alongside the area of the mature trees to the main channel. 

During the dry spell the planting has been managed by regular watering and suppression of weed growth around these plants. This is the hard part of any bush regeneration project. Often the easier part is the clearing and planting. Not saying that it doesn’t involve effort but follow up is the harder part as it involves commitment to realise the hard gains we are making. 

What is encouraging is seeing the gains! Plants we have planted, some are starting to flower and produce seeds. A few of the lomandras, the yellow Senna on the road side have lovely seed pods. A number of existing plants like the deep yellow wood, green and yellow kamala, mutton wood, red olive plum and a number of vines like the slender lilly, barb wire vine are producing seeds and have provide new plants that regrow in this area. Like also the kangaroo vine which is dropping black fruits on the road margin just opposite Galvin Road. 

The mature gray gums, brush box and iron barks rain down seeds or bring in birds and other wildlife that shed seeds for re-growth. The under story plants are starting to thrive like the native grasses and ferns such as the rasp and maiden hair ferns. The re-growth of these plants is made easier when they are not overgrown by exotic grasses and vines that have been in the area for some time. 

The two areas special in this site is the area under the mature eucalyptus and the area under the canopy where the cats claw is growing (but being managed). Both areas have great abundance and increase biodiversity of native plants  
Finally, be on the look out in the coming few months for yellow flowers up trees, Cats Caw Creeper. 

Lets break the cycle and stop the spread of seeds!

Wildlife sightings

Our Masked Lapwings are still around, along with the Welcome Swallows. The warm weather has brought out one of our reptilian friends, a small fresh water snake inthe creek looking for feed. Any other sights you may see would be great to share.

Phil’s guide to Zen: 

Be calm in other people’s storms  …

 

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Creek Health Monitoring

May 9, 2014 by mccgadmin

Filed Under: Events & Activities

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