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Friends of Susan Campbell and Kent McKoy Reserves – Let's get planting!
2024-08-11 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Friends of Susan Campbell and Kent McKoy Reserves have one of the best views in Wodonga with an expanse of ridgetop remnant and regenerating open woodland. If you’d like to join them for their annual tree planting days and discover this hidden gem in Wodonga, then consider these dates to join them for a fun morning to plant, guard and water in 300 tubestock.
BYO gloves, water bottle and planting tools.
For more information and to confirm the meeting location contact Jacqui- sc-km@wodongalandcare.org.au

Baranduda, Victoria : Birding and Nature
2024-08-11 09:00 - 15:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Members please meet for a 9am departure at the IGA Supermarket Carpark – NE corner, Baranduda.
Leader for outing is Bernie phone 0490 497 032

Weed Identification and management in Wooragee
2024-08-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Wooragee hall & community centre, Wooragee hall & community centre, 1001 Beechworth-Wodonga Rd, Wooragee, 3747
Wooragee Landcare is running a weed identification and weed management workshop on Saturday 10th August in the afternoon. This workshop is suitable for landholders and gardeners and will include a session in the hall with some hands-on how to identify plants, looking at weed specimens, and starting a weed scrapbook (included) then a weed walk nearby. For Bookings
https://events.humanitix.com/weed-identifcation-and-management-in-wooragee

Border Bushwalking Club - Mt Kilawarra loop
2024-08-10 | Warby Ovens National Park, Warby Ovens National Park, Wangandary, Vic, 3678, Australia
We begin the walk in the Warby Ranges at the foot of Mt Kilawarra. After we summit the small peak and enjoy the views, we’ll head off in search of what we can find. Everything about this walk will be off track. You can make it your own walk searching for rocks, flowers/trees, birds/bees, as we make our own way and wonder through the bush and back to Mt Kilawarra. The walk will be off track and should be somewhere around 10km in distance depending on what the group decides.

Grade 4 Medium-Hard
Leader: Mick
Phone: 0437 101 009
Deb
0410 047884
Participant numbers:10
Final booking date: 7/8/24
Risks: Wildlife and obstacles
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Border Bushwalking Club – Tuesday Winter Wander
2024-08-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre, 15 Havelock Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Trying to get fit, stay fit in Winter? Look out for these short midweek walks that include hills that are designed to get those muscles ready for Spring.
Today’s walk is McFarlands Hill and we will walk in the early afternoon.
This walk is on the edge of Wodonga. It’s only 7kms so it won’t take up your whole day. The height gain is 280m
the track is most,y grassy and can be wet and boggy so good waterproof hiking shoes or boots are recommended.
Unless I know you well as a walker please phone me to discuss this walk.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Participant numbers:12
Final booking date: Sunday August 4th
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Friends of Chiltern-Mt Pilot NP Field day
2024-08-04 09:00 - 13:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Every month we meet to do some work in the Park.. Often there’s a nature walk after we consume our Chiltern bakery bun. We always meet at Chiltern PO at 9am. Contact Tony Murnane 0447256938

Banking on Trees Community Planting Morning
2024-08-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga, 3690
Join the team from WAW and Parklands Albury Wodonga in our Banking on Trees planting day on Sunday 4 August, 9am-11am.
What to bring: Closed shoes and long pants as the ground is uneven and might be muddy.

What will be provided:
• All tools, equipment, materials, and gloves (unless you want to bring your own gloves).
• BBQ lunch will include sausages, bread, and sauce. Those with special dietary requirements, please BYO.
Where: Paddock off Carrolls Lane, Wodonga. Go past the Wodonga Railway Station for approximately 980 m following the signs and park in the paddock. See map on event website.
About this event: Did you know that every time an account is opened at BankWAW, they plant a tree?
Trees create endless amounts of good. They clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity.
Planting a tree is also one of the easiest and cheapest ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. It’s also the easiest way that we, as individuals, can reduce our own footprint.
BankWAW’s Banking on Trees program is revegetating the bushland of our local communities, contributing to a better climate, supporting biodiversity, and creating better living conditions for our local communities.

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2024-08-03 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-06 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.

Birds on Farms SNSW and Birdlife Ovens and Murray Winter training workshop
2024-08-03 09:00 - 15:00 | Tabletop area: details available on registration, Tabletop
BirdLifeAustralia’s Birds on Farms SNSW project team invite you to our FREE guided birdwatching workshop to learn more about your birds from the Ovens and Murray BirdLife Branch of local experts.
The Birds on Farms program aims to raise awareness about woodland birds and their habitats, and share opportunities for you to getinvolved in helping save your birds. Join us and see how years of dedicated habitat restoration has created a bird friendly sanctuary for threatened and declining woodland birds.
Share – your bird knowledge in a friendly relaxed environment.
Learn – from local birders how to make your place more bird friendly.
Explore – exclusive Birds on Farms monitoring sites with the volunteers who monitor them.
If you are a birdwatcher and would like support to build your bird identification skills and local bird knowledge this training workshop will help you learn more about our local bird species, how to conduct bird surveys, and simple ways you can help Save Birds. Save Life.

When: Saturday 3rd August, 2024. 9am to 3pm.
Where: a Table Top property – details provided on RSVP.
What to bring: Sun/rain protection, sturdy footwear, binoculars (if you have them), a water bottle, chair and a birding friend!
Morning tea and lunch provided.
RSVP: to Darcy Creece – darcy.creece@birdlife.org.au

Have your say: Greater Hume Council proposed tree clearing
2024-08-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
Greater Hume Council wants to seal an existing dirt road – Jelbart Road, Jindera. The existing remnant vegetation by the road provides a corridor for wildlife.

The stretch of road to be sealed is only around 1.5km long and Council has indicated that they propose to remove somewhere between 80-90 trees of various DBHs and distances from the centre of the existing road. Some clearly cannot be a threat to falling onto the road as their main trunk leans towards the private landholding.

The proposal does not align with Council’s vision of “valuing community assets including natural resources”. Nor its commit to an “urban forest” environment.

The area is a known corridor for squirrel gliders, and a range of other hollow dependent fauna. It also a seed collection area used by the Local Land Services.

Please email Council – mail@greaterhume.nsw.gov.au and urge them at least to change the proposal so that the road still get sealed, but significantly few trees are removed and any trees that are hollow bearing have the hollows kept on site and placed within the existing remnants at a height of at least three metres.

You have until August 6th.

Living Plant Based: Diet and Climate Change
2024-07-28 12:00 - 14:30 | Beechworth Railway Station, 1B Harper Avenue, Beechworth, 3747
This month join us for a shared plantbased pot luck lunch and a discussion of diet and climate change and whether the Plant Based Treaty is a way forward.
BYO plantbased dish – if unsure a fruit platter or a bowl of cooked potatoes with hummus is perfect

National Tree Day community planting
2024-07-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join the Rural City of Wangaratta to connect with nature and your community as we celebrate National Tree Day. Help extend the habitat corridor created over the last few years as we plant indigenous native plants along the Rail Trail between Wangaratta-Eldorado Rd and Petticoat Lane. Enter Londrigan Tarrawingee Rd from Wangaratta-Eldorado Rd. Learn more about our local flora and fauna and help to improve habitat for local wildlife. Free BBQ lunch provided.
Bookings essential here: https://events.humanitix.com/rcow-tree-day-24
Please bring your own gloves (limited number will be available if you forget), water bottle, wear sturdy footwear and dress for the weather conditions
For more information please contact RCoW Environment team on: 03 5722 0888 or environment@wangaratta.vic.gov.au

Plant with us- Ewart Brothers Reserve Community Planting Day
2024-07-28 10:00 - 12:30, 2024-06-30 10:00 - 12:30 | Ewart Brothers Reserve, Memorial Dr, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Join our community tree planting and nature talk with naturalist Karen Retra- a free family event.
Join us for one event or join us for all three planting sessions at this reserve, held in May, June and July!
Each planting day will comprise:
10.00am — Community tree planting
12.00am —Walk and talk with naturalist Karen Retra.
Please bring gardening gloves and wear sturdy shoes/boots and bring a shovel or trowel. We’ll provide the plants.
RSVP by the Friday prior to the event.
Online registration
Plantings along House Creek are a community led project restoring native habitat, presented by Friends of Ewart Brothers Reserve with support from Wodonga Urban Landcare Network.

Albury City Council - Community Tree Day
2024-07-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Tree planting will be carried out just south of Apex Park with the aim of improving linkage between remnant vegetation and previous revegetation works, boost local biodiversity, and to provide improved habitat for key threatened species, including squirrel gliders. BBQ lunch provided from 12 pm.

Everton, Victoria : Birding and Nature
2024-07-27 09:30 - 15:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Meet outside the Telegraph Station in Ford Street, Beechworth, for a 9.30am departure.
Leader for outing is Gail phone 0418 384 303.
Travel in convoy onto Everton and enjoy where Gail leads us for birding and nature.

Community Planting Bee at Leneva Depot
2024-07-23 09:00 - 11:00 | Leneva Enviro Hub, 3063 Beechworth-Wodonga Rd, Leneva, Victoria, 3691, Australia
Please join Parklands Albury Wodonga for a morning of planting at our Leneva Depot and Enviro Hub. We will be making a start on a new native sensory garden which will form part of our Nature Play Trails project. This event is suitable for all ages and we encourage families to come along.
Please wear closed shoes and bring some water. You can bring your own gloves if you like. All other tools and equipment will be provided.
Click here to register.
Thanks to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal for the funding for this project.

MONTHLY REPAIR CAFE HASTINGS WORKSHOP
2024-07-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Hastings Community Hub, 1973 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Hastings, 3915
The Repair Cafe is a place where skilled volunteers fix, repair and mend household & personal items for reuse or repurpose. This helps pass on special skills and keeps the circular economy going in the community and items out of landfill. We are a not-for-profit community organisation which relies on kind donations from the community to also keep us going. Kids activities and light refreshments are available as part of the Repair Cafe services. We are currently running just one session per month (usually on the third Sunday of each month) at The Hastings Community Hub. We have a great group of volunteers but are also seeking more volunteers to assist in all areas of operating the Repair Cafe (on site and behind the scenes) as our visitor numbers grow. Training provided. Please inquire if interested in helping out or attending one of our next repair sessions – we would love to meet you!

Bird Calls and Identification Information Day
2024-07-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Members please meet at the Baranduda Community Centre, 3 Sage Court, Baranduda, Victoria.
Bird calls and their identification session commences at 2pm.
Leader for the session is Bernie phone 0490 497 032.

Mid Year Luncheon TBA
2024-07-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
TBA closer to the date

Fed Hill Community Tree Planting 2024
2024-07-14 09:00 - 11:00, 2024-07-07 09:00 - 11:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Residents, families and friends are invited to help the Friends of Federation Hill plant trees and shrubs to provide wildlife habitat and links on the hill behind Barton St, Wodonga.
When: Two Sunday Mornings in July (7th & 14th) – 9am to 11am.
Where: Fed Hill Reserve, Wodonga. Park in Street and take walkway through Daniel Rhodes Park at 43 Barton St. At top of park turn right and walk 100m to access the Dam area.
BYO: Preferably wear boots and dress for the weather. We will have spare gloves, etc but if you wish to come equipped, you could BYO:
* Gardening Gloves
* Bucket
* Long handled Shovel &/or a Mattock.

RSVP: Verbal registration beforehand would help logistics but simply turning up on a morning will be fine and appreciated.
For more information contact our group coordinator Simon Fisher 0438247478.

GIVEAWAY PRIZE — Satisfaction that you have helped the environment.
All welcome!
Presented by Wodonga Urban Landcare Network with the generous support of our sponsors.

Deep Listening to Nature - Andrew Skeoch
2024-07-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Albury LibraryMuseum, 540 Kiewa Street, Albury, NSW, 2640, Australia
How can we engage our hearing to connect more deeply to nature around us?
Acoustic ecologist, Andrew Skeoch, will guide you into hearing the languages of nature; developing your auditory awareness, identifying species by ear, recognising behaviours and repertoire, and finding empathy with the voices of other beings. Deeper listening allows us to hear the integrity of entire ecosystems, the influence of evolution and earth time, and reveal what the communications of the biosphere tell us about how nature functions to achieve sustainability.
Andrew’s presentations are an immersive weaving of evocative recordings, fascinating spectrogram analysis and original ideas. You’ll hear the environment around you in a whole new way.
Book sales will be available on the day.
Please book via this link or call Albury LibraryMuseum on 6023 8333.

Border Bushwalking Club - Tuesday winter wander
2024-07-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Trying to get fit, stay fit in Winter? Look out for these short midweek walks that include hills that are designed to get those muscles ready for Spring.
Today’s walk is around the Albury end of Nail Can Hill, including the Botanic Gardens and The Monument. It is 8.5 km in length and there is a climb of 200m
It’s all on well formed paths but a small section is a bit rocky and steep. If you usually use poles they will be useful.
We will walk in the early afternoon and it should take around 3 hours.
Unless you are well known to me as a walker please ring to discuss this walk

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Participant numbers:12
Final booking date: Saturday 6th July
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Birdlife Ovens and Murray July outing: Livingstone National Park
2024-07-07 09:30 - 15:30 | Livingstone National Park, NSW, Livingstone National Park, northern end of the park via Wrigleys Rd
Date: Sunday 7th July
Location: Livingstone National Park, NSW
Time: 9.30am to 3pm (approx)
Meet: 9:30am at the carpark at the northern end of the park, via Wrigleys Rd, off of O’Briens Creek
Rd: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rc4zxqKvZNdieTHr6
Leaders: Darcy Creece (Sthn NSW Birds on Farms on behalf of Birdlife Ovens and Murray) and Sarah Danckert (Murrumbidgee Field Nats)
Details

It’s about a 1hr 15min drive to the meeting point from central Albury. The best route is to turn off the Olympic Hwy at Gerogery, and travel via Morven, Cookardinia and Mangoplah.

The carpark at Livingston NP is accessible via 2WD, but we plan to head further into the park, which will require a 4WD, so it is encouraged to bring one, and we will try to organise carpooling on the day for those who only have a 2WD.

The national park is hilly, so expect uneven terrain, but nothing too steep for the parts we’ll be doing on foot.

Please note: there are no amenities at the park.
Highlights

woodland birds such as robins, speckled warbler, white-browed babblers, and details of the local vegetation courtesy of the field nats.

Bring

binoculars
notebook and pen/app if you wish to record birds and/or plants
good walking shoes or boots
suitable clothing for the weather conditions
hat/beanie
morning tea
lunch
chair
water

You may also like to check out the Livingstone National Park webpage which provides more information about the park
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/livingstone-national-park/visitor-info

Border Bushwalking Club - Walking Back into the Ice Age
2024-07-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Members and friends are invited to come along to our next Club Night to be educated, entertained and
enthralled by what is sure to be unique presentation by former Tallangatta Secondary College geography
teacher and alpine geology expert, Ted Minty and his wife, Glenda.
Ted and Glenda will be taking us on a ‘virtual tour’ through the glacial landscapes of the Kosciuszko Main
Range, focusing on the most recent glaciation which left us those beautiful moraine-dammed lakes:
Cootapatamba, Albina, Club and Blue Lake. Ted and Glenda’s presentation at a previous Club Night,
focusing on the geology of the High Plains, is still talked about by members who attended, so this one will
undoubtedly be just as fascinating.
Tuesday 2nd July
“The Venue” 5 McFarland Road Wodonga at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7.00pm
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Border Bushwalking Club -"Awesome Albury" Bike ride 30km + optional extras
2024-06-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Grade 2 Easy-Medium
Leader: Connie Constas/Rosa D’Angelo
Phone:
Ian Trevaskis
0425 782 983
Participant numbers:12
Final booking date: Friday, June 28th
Risks: Other cyclists/pedestrians, dogs, road crossings/motor vehicles
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Border Bushwalking Club - Tuesday winter wander
2024-06-25 13:00 - 16:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Trying to get fit, stay fit in Winter. Look out for these short midweek walks that include hills that are designed to get those muscles ready for Spring.
Today’s walk is Norris Hill and we will walk in the early afternoon.
This walk in Lavington certainly starts with a bang but the climb is short and after that it’s gently undulating. It’s only 5kms so it won’t take up your whole day.
If you usually use poles they will be very useful for the first part as the track can be gravelly and slippery, after that it’s a lovely bush track followed by a flat well formed pathway.
Unless I know you well as a walker please phone me to discuss this walk.

Grade 3 Medium
Leader: Bernadette
Phone: 0419241687
Participant numbers:12
Final booking date: Saturday June 22nd
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Plant with us - David Winterbottom Park Community Planting Days
2024-06-23 10:00 - 12:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join our community tree planting and nature talk with naturalist Karen Retra- a free family event.
10.00am-12.30pm on each day:

Friday 21st June 2024
Sunday 23rd June 2024

Each planting day will comprise:
10.00am — Community tree planting
12.00pm —Walk and talk with naturalist Karen Retra.
12.30 BBQ lunch
Please bring gardening gloves and wear sturdy shoes/boots and a water bottle. We’ll provide the tools and the plants.
FREE but please let us know you’re coming by registering here.
Meet at the shelter in David Winterbottom Park, near Yarralumla Drive.
See map below or view in google maps: bit.ly/dwpmap24
If arriving by car, we recommend parking on the median-like strip next to the main part of Yarralumla Drive (also marked on map).
Access from the main road as the road in front of the houses has a curb.
These plantings along Huon Creek are a community led project restoring native habitat, presented by Friends of David Winterbottom Park with support from Wodonga Urban Landcare Network.
Map of access, parking and meeting place
