Sturt Upper Reaches Landcare Group
Sturt Upper Reaches Landcare Group
Secretary, Jill Cole
Monthly 1st Tues 7.30pm at Upper Sturt Primary School, 118 Upper Sturt Rd, Upper Sturt 5156
Since 1995 the Sturt Upper Reaches Landcare Group has been carrying out Landcare activity in the area that makes up the upper reaches of the Sturt River catchment. This area is broadly centred on Upper Sturt and Ironbank, between Belair National Park and Mark Oliphant Conservation Park. We aim to promote a landcare ethic in the local community: through public awareness, practical activities, and connecting people with nature and each other. We maintain an accessible Demonstration Site to promote best practice in environmental management and provide educational and interactive environmental experiences for the public. As volunteers we carry out Landcare work on the Demonstration Site and elsewhere in the local area through working bees and other on-ground activities. We conduct talks and meetings, publish relevant environmental information, propagate local provenance native plants and work with local schools
- Promotes a landcare ethic in the local area
- Acts as a contact point and resource about environmental information for the local community, and as a conduit for government and Natural Resource Management Boards to the public.
- Propagates local provenance native plants
- Conducts working bees and other on-ground activity
- Works with local schools
- Publishes environmental information
- Educates to improve knowledge about the environment and environmental management through the Demonstration Site
- Provides community information and education through public talks and meetings
- Works with government and other partners to improve the quality and connection of native vegetation between Mark Oliphant Conservation Park at Ironbank, and Belair National Park at Belair. This is called the Olibel project.
Information provided for: Adelaide Hills Council
This record was updated by: Volunteer Alexander B.