Border Bushwalking Club - Eastern Hill Circuit
2025-08-12 08:00 - 12:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
his morning walk takes us to Mungabareena along the Murray Rv and up Eastern Hill to a lookout where snow may be visible. From here it is a Ridge walk to Eastern Hill towers and the bush path on the other side of East St. We will then head to the parked cars which will involve a little bit of footpath walking.
Bookings open August 3rd.
If anyone in interested in morning tea/brunch at the end we could call into cafe Borellas.
Please let me know if you are interested in the cafe option as you book.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Bookings open August 3rd
Participant numbers:12
Final booking date: Sunday August 10th 8pm
Distance 8kms
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Kiewa River Wetlands Planting Morning
2025-08-12 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-08-22 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-08-26 09:30 - 11:30 | Kiewa River Wetlands, Kenneth Watson Drive, Bandiana, Australia
Join us to plant native grasses and shrubs into the channel and abutting floodplain on the Kiewa River wetlands.
When: 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Where: Park at the entrance to Huon Hill. See below.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
Thank you to the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal for their financial support for the “Restoring Bonegilla’s blue carbon sink wetlands and waterways” project.

Invasive Grass ID and Removal at Baranduda
2025-08-14 09:00 - 11:00 | High Country Rail Trail, Koetong, Australia
Help us protect our precious native grasslands by learning how to identify whiskey grass and African love grass as well as the various techniques to control these new and emerging grass weed species.
These highly competitive exotic grasses form dense, flammable stands and are nearly unpalatable for livestock.
We will walk along the High Country Rail Trail, building our grass ID skills along the way, then chip out and bag these invasive weeds.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park at the Whytes Road car park on the High Country Rail Trail.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Who: You can contact Ranger Dan on 0417501352.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event.
This project is financially supported by the Victorian Government’s Partnerships Against Pests Program.

2025 Mann Lecture
2025-08-14 18:00 - 19:30 | La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga campus, University Drive, West Wodonga, 3690
On August 14 La Trobe Albury-Wodonga is hosting the 2025 Mann Lecture, Responding to Regional Change: How a values-based approach can help us navigate key issues of water, health and social connection.
Delivered in partnership with La Trobe’s Climate Change Adaptation Lab, this important panel discussion explores how we think about decision making in the face of regional change, and is particularly relevant to groups and individuals involved in grass roots community action.
Thursday 14 August, 6.00pm – 7.30pm at La Trobe University, 133 McKoy St, West Wodonga.
Please RSVP at this link or by phoning 02 6024 9727.

Waterworks Planting Morning
2025-08-15 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-08-29 09:30 - 11:30 | Waterworks Regional Park, Island Rd, Wodonga, Victoria
Help us to establish a wildlife corridor connection between Waterworks and Ryans Creek where fencing has been going up over the previous month. This corridor will allow native animals to move between areas of natural habitat, allowing them to adapt to a changing climate. It will also provide greater pedestrian access along our riverfronts.
When: 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Where: Park at the canoe launching area at Waterworks, which is just after the second bridge on Island Road.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
This project has been made possible due to generous funding from Bupa and Landcare Australia.

Tackling Woody Weeds – Workshop and Plant Giveaway
2025-08-16 10:00 - 14:00 | Leneva Hall, 3081 Beechworth-Wodonga Rd,, Leneva, Victoria
Weeds have wide-ranging impacts on our environment, agriculture, and communities. They degrade native bushland, threaten biodiversity, harbour pest animals, and reduce agricultural productivity. Join us for this workshop to learn how to identify and control woody weeds on your property or patch and opportunities for coordinated, landscape-scale action.
This workshop will be held at Leneva Hall where we will be joined by Jo Vincent from Wodonga Urban Landcare Network and our Leneva Castle Creek Landcare Group coordinators.
There are two sessions to the events outlined below.

Plant giveaway for LCC members: 10am-11am
Woody weeds workshop: 11am-2pm

What you’ll learn:

How weeds impact biodiversity, agriculture, and waterways
How to identify common and priority weeds in our region
Best practice control methods: manual, mechanical, chemical & biological
Safe and effective herbicide use
Local case studies and success stories

We will then hold a field visit to a local rehabilitation site for those interested in joining.
Additionally, to get you started or to continue you on your revegetation journey, as a part of this workshop we are also giving away free plants to Leneva Castle Creek Landcare Group members! Not a member? No worries! For just $20 you can join the group by following this link.
Apart from free plants and being the first to know about our events, why become a member?

Training, technical advice, and best-practice guidance
Connection to a strong local network of landcarers working at a landscape scale
Support with planning, grant writing, and volunteer recruitment
Access to insurance, shared equipment, and project resources

Please register to attend the workshop and/or the plant giveaway.
Please contact rhiannon@wodongalandcare.org.au if you have any questions.

This event is the fourth workshop in our workshop series ‘Growing capacity against invasives on small blocks’ which is supported by the Victorian Government through the Partnerships Against Pests program. We will be hosting two more events this year on herbaceous weeds and blackberries.

Important meeting-How do we secure the future for Seed Savers Albury Wodonga?
2025-08-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Albury LibraryMuseum, 540 Kiewa Street, Albury, NSW, 2640, Australia
At this meeting, we will reflect on the beginnings of this active community group, why it has been so successful and why current members contribute to its running.
We will also consider that we are now in the situation that our long standing secretary steps down at our next AGM. With no successor in sight, crucial tasks will be left with no one to do them. This will significantly impact the group’s ability to function.
What can members do to help secure the future of Seed Savers Albury Wodonga?
We invite all SSAW members and interested public to attend a discussion led by one of the founders of Seed Savers Albury Wodonga, Lou Bull, a keen gardener and well known for her environmental work.
Afternoon tea provided.

Champions for Nature – Sloane’s Froglet Citizen Science winter frog walk
2025-08-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Gullifer lane rail trail access, Bonegilla, Gullifer lane, rail trail access, Bonegilla, 3691, Australia
Join ACF Community Albury Wodonga and Wodonga Urban Landcare Network (WULN) for this nature-based, citizen science event with Karen Retra.
Karen will take us on a beautiful, slow, approximately 2.5 km walk and show us how to use the FrogID app to record your important citizen scientist findings. We hope you will hear the call of the endangered Sloane’s Froglet!
We will also enjoy Karen’s passion for many aspects of our local environment as we walk along the High Country Rail Trail near the Kiewa River at Bonegilla.
See this google map for our meeting place at the Rail Trail access on Gullifer Lane.
Find out more about the Sloane’s Champions project and how to use the FrogID app on this page of the WULN website.
You may also be interested in Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group’s (WTLG) flier on monitoring Sloane’s Froglet.
Places are limited, please register.
Below, the Rail Trail boardwalk near the Kiewa River, in a wetter season than so far this winter!

Street Harvest
2025-08-18 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-25 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-01 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-08 09:30 - 12:30 | Uniting, Wodonga, 1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga, Vic, 3690, Australia
The Street Harvest project is being reinvigorated – Please consider growing an extra row of produce in your garden to support this project and Uniting in Wodonga.
All produce can be dropped off at Uniting (1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga between. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday to Friday).
The project builds and encourages community capacity and improves food security for Wodonga residents by distributing excess fruit and vegetables, harvested from residential gardens, to local residents and emergency food relief agencies.
‘Street Harvest’ was a pilot project developed in Wodonga in 2010. The Street Harvest Project grew out of a passion for transforming the local food system into one that is sustainable and strong.

Tallangatta Creek Planting Morning
2025-08-19 09:30 - 11:30 | Tallangatta Creek, Murray Valley Hwy., Bullioh, Australia
Come and help us plant some native seedlings near the High Country Rail Trail and Tallangatta Creek, Bullioh as part of our revegetation program.
When: 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Where: Turn left off the Murray Valley Hwy just after crossing Tallangatta Creek and park near the new Tallangatta Creek Rail Trail bridge. See map below.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
Thank you to BankWAW for their sponsorship of plants, guards, and stakes which are being utilized across the regional park network this winter.

Turtle Island Planting Morning
2025-08-21 09:30 - 11:30 | Doctors Point, Doctors Point Rd, East Albury, Australia
Over the summer, a significant amount of box elder woody weeds were removed from Turtle Island and now it’s time to get some native seedlings in! Our plantings will create a much more diverse habitat which will provide extra refuges for native animals as the climate continues to change and urban areas grow.
Please note: You will be required to paddle in a canoe a short distance across the Murray River to reach Turtle Island.
When: 9:30 am to 11:30 am.
Where: Meet at the Doctors Point boat ramp.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
This project is funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists outing: Galore Hill Scenic Reserve, Lockhart, NSW
2025-08-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Galore Hill Scenic Reserve, Lockhart
Join the Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists for a walk in the Galore Hill Scenic Reserve, Lockhart, to explore the flora and fauna in the area.
Meet near the Public Toilets in Green Street, Lockhart (near the Water Tower), Saturday 23 August 2025, at 10am
For further information about the outing Telephone: 0428 401 090
Pets are not permitted om AWFN field excursions. Assistance & Guide dogs welcome.

Border Bushwalking Club - Albury river and hill walk
2025-08-26 08:00 - 11:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
This will be a morning walk that loops including some of the Southern end of NailCan hill as well as the river. There is 300m of height gain. It is all on tracks of various types: footpad, firetrail, paved and a few road crossings.
The walk ends at the start of the Yinyamarra Sculpture Trail so those with more time and energy may wish to continue on. This would not be a part of the club walk.
Leader:Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Distance: 8kms
Grade: 3
Participant numbers 12
Bookings open August 3rd
Final date for booking: Sunday 24th August 8pm
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Border Bushwalking Club - Magic Forest, Stanley
2025-08-31 08:00 - 16:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Lets celebrate the end of Winter with a magical day out. This walk takes you into a small area of giant redwoods . Most of the walk is on little used 4WD tracks. They are mostly very gently undulating with a few short, steep parts. We also walk along Higgins Lane with its gold mining history.
As the walk starts and ends at the Stanley Hotel those who wish can stay on for lunch. I would appreciate early bookings if you intend joining us for lunch.
Final booking date: Sunday August 24th. As soon as possible if you want to join us for lunch at the pub. The first 9 people who wish to come for lunch will be included in the lunch booking, after that we may need to make another booking. Please ring me to discuss.
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Distance: 11km
Grade: easy end of Grade 3
Participant numbers 15
Final date for booking: Sunday August 24th
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Waterworks Planting Morning and Traditional Owner Walk
2025-08-31 09:00 - 11:00 | Waterworks Regional Park, Island Rd, Wodonga, Victoria
Help us to establish a wildlife corridor connection between Waterworks and Ryans Creek where fencing has been going up over the previous month. This corridor will allow native animals to move between areas of natural habitat, allowing them to adapt to a changing climate. It will also provide greater pedestrian access along our riverfronts. You will also be treated to a short walk guided by Uncle Al from Duduroa Dhargal Aboriginal Corporation who will share his cultural knowledge of the landscape.
A BBQ lunch will be provided.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park at the canoe launching area at Waterworks, which is just after the second bridge on Island Road.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
This project has been made possible due to generous funding from Bupa and Landcare Australia.

Wattle Day at Wirraminna
2025-08-31 10:00 - 14:00 | Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre, Howlong Road,, Burrumbuttock, New South Wales, 2642, Australia
Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre presents…
WATTLE DAY
Join us to celebrate 30 years of community and environmental stewardship in the beautiful town of Burrumbuttock. Enjoy a day of nature, discovery, and wondrous wattle. Bring your curiosity, gold coins, and love for the environment.
FREE ENTRY ■ FREE SAUSAGE SIZZLE ▪ GUIDED WALKS ▪ KIDS ACTIVITIES ▪ GIVEAWAYS ▪ COFFEE VAN ▪ LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS ▪ PRESENTATIONS ▪ SWEET TREATS ▪ FACE PAINTING ▪ STALLS & MORE!
HOWLONG RD BURRUMBUTTOCK NSW 2642
SUNDAY 31ST AUGUST 2025
10AM-2PM
This event has been supported by the NSW Government through Murray Local Land Services’ Awareness raising activities to promote the value of on-farm natural assets program

Border Bushwalking Club - Sep Huon Hill from Kiewa River, via Stringybark Track
2025-09-02 08:00 - 13:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
This is a very pleasant walk starting with a gentle stroll along the Kiewa Rv. There is 380 M of height gain as you climb the Stringybark track but you are rewarded with stunning 360 degree views of Wodonga, the Kiewa Valley, Lake Hume and the Victorian Alps.
We will return to the river carpark where there are picnic tables by lunch time so bring some lunch if you want to enjoy the river setting for a little longer.
Leader:Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Distance: 8kms
Grade: 3
Participant numbers 12
Final date for booking: Saturday August 30th, 8pm
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au “

Turtle Island Planting Morning
2025-09-02 09:30 - 12:00 | Doctors Point, Doctors Point Rd, East Albury, Australia
Over the summer, a significant amount of box elder woody weeds were removed from Turtle Island and now it’s time to get some native seedlings in! Our plantings will create a much more diverse habitat which will provide extra refuges for native animals as the climate continues to change and urban areas grow.
Please note: You will be required to paddle in a canoe a short distance across the Murray River to reach Turtle Island.
When: 9:30 am to midday.
Where: Meet at the Doctors Point boat ramp.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please register here!
Thank you to the Australian Government for their financial support through the Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments program.

ZOOM Training session for spotting platypus and recording their location
2025-09-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
ACF-AWR is excited to be hosting events again in 2025 for the wonderful citizen science platy-project.
The first event will be a training session on ZOOM.
This session will provide information on:

Why this citizen science project is important and how platypus are fairing;
How to spot a platypus – habitat/where, when, and watching out for tricksters;
How to record your findings;
Water bugs/food;
OH&S; and
Where our field events are being held and what to bring.

Please RSVP to let us know you’ll be joining and receive the zoom link.
We look forward to seeing you!
Your ACF-AWR Team

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2025-09-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre, 15 Havelock Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Do you have a broken household item you’d like fixed but need a hand to do so? Then this is your opportunity.
Our Repair Café is a free meeting place to bring along broken household items such as furniture, clothing, textiles and battery-operated appliances and learn how to fix them with the help of experienced, volunteer repairers. You can also bring along small, blunt garden tools like secateurs and we’ll show you how to sharpen them. Maximum three items per person per session. A donation is greatly appreciated for the repair of your items. This covers the cost of our insurance and supplies used for these repairs.
For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/repaircafeaw/
Repair Café Albury-Wodonga is proudly supported by Halve Waste, with morning yummies donated by Kooka Brotha’s patisserie.

Friends of Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park, Wildflower Walk (afternoon)
2025-09-06 16:00 - 17:30 | Meet at Chiltern Post Office, 54 Main Street, Chiltern, Victoria, 3683, Australia
Meet outside the Chiltern Post Office at 4pm, then travel to Honeyeater Picnic Area where experienced Friends Members will guide Wildflower Walks near the picnic area in the Chiltern- Mt Pilot NP.
Any questions, contact Liz : secretary@friendsofchiltern.org.au

Platy-Project Field Event 6 September 2025, 4 - 6 pm
2025-09-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Willow Park carpark, Pearce Street, Wodonga, 3690, Australia
Have you ever had that magical moment of spotting a platypus in the wild?
Join us at this event to learn where to look for, and how spot, platypus in the wild for this great #CitizenScience project, a partnership with great ACF, UNSW, Centre for Ecosystem Science, and Platypus Conservation Initiative.
ACF-AWR is excited to be hosting events again in 2025 for the wonderful citizen science platy-project.
This is our first field event and the first of our field events for this year. Our second field event is scheduled for 13 September, 4 – 6 pm.
Join us and help researchers understand more about this elusive animal and how we can better protect it.
When: 6 September, 4 – 6 pm
Where: Willow Park, Car Park, Pearce Street, Wodonga, VIC.
What we’ll be doing:

We’ll talk through the best ways to spot a platypus and how to not get tricked by other creatures;
We’ll practise our platy spotting skills with a walk around the creek to identify the best platy spotting habitat; and
We’ll also net and look at the water bugs to see what platypus food is in the area.

You may want to then invest time to watch and wait for a platypus to reveal itself at the end of the event. We’ve been watching platypus in the area recently.
We can’t promise you will see a platypus, but you’ll be well equipped to keep looking for platypus at your nearest river or creek to help researchers understand more about this incredible creature and help prevent further declines in their numbers.
Join us at our upcoming platy-project event!
RSVP as soon as possible so you don’t miss out. Places are limited to ensure the event is safe and the best experience for all of us.
Image: Young platypus on a log in McMahons Creek, Yarra Ranges, Victoria. Credit: Doug Gimesy.

Birdlife Ovens and Murray: Spring outing: Sandy Creek Reservoir & Allans Flat
2025-09-07 09:00 - 14:30 | Sandy Creek, Victoria
Please come and join us for our regular monthly walk, this time to Sandy Creek, Victoria.
Date: Sunday 7th September
Location: Sandy Creek Reservoir
Meet: corner of Lockharts Gap Road and Sandy Creek Road.
Time: 9am
Outing duration: 9am – 2.30pm
Leader: Bernie Datson

Program
Part 1

Arrive at Sandy Creek Reservoir about 9.15am and have optional morning tea on Lake’s edge.
Examine nests of the Fairy Martins.
Return walk will be about 1 km and be completed within 2hrs.

Good chance of seeing less common ducks and grebes and a good variety of honeyeaters including Eastern Spinebill and White-naped Honeyeater. (Platypuses too!)

Part 2
We will drive to an and Je’s place at Allans Flat about 11.30 ish and pause at their gate area for possible views of the Golden-headed Cisticola.
We will have lunch on their verandah about noon followed by a walk through nearby birding areas for about an hour and a half.
A diverse group of birds will be encountered and will possibly include Speckled Warbler, Diamond Dove and Quail.

Everyone is welcome.
Remember to bring

suitable footwear
binoculars
water
appropriate clothing and headwear for the weather
a chair
morning tea
lunch

NB: There is no obligation to stay for the duration of the event. However, if you leave early, please let the leader for the day know.

For more information or queries please contact Fiona at ovensmurray@birdlife.org.au

Spring planting and Wicking Bed workshop
2025-09-07 10:00 - 12:00 | beingreen permaculture, 590 Heathwood Ave,, Lavington, NSW, 2641, Australia
Keen to plant now for Summer? Not sure what, when and how to do it?
Learn hands on how to create your own water saving wicking bed for our hot dry summer season.
Session also covers soil preparation, plant choice and companion planting techniques.
