Mid Lachlan Landcare is protecting paddock trees using stock proof tree guards. They have released a short video demonstrating how to build these tree guards from the roll of steel mesh available through our ‘Saving Our Superb Parrot’ project.
This week 7th – 13th August is National Landcare Week and to celebrate, Mid Lachlan Landcare (MLL) is launching its new online instruction video, ‘How to Build a Paddock Tree Guard’.
“Every week is considered Landcare Week by Mid Lachlan Landcare,” says coordinator Tracee Burke. “But for this Landcare Week, we are celebrating all our region’s tree planting achievements and we invite district residents to share their tree stories.”
MLL is currently supporting landholders to plant new paddock trees, protect established old trees and improve habitat and connectivity for the Superb Parrot.
Scattered paddock trees are critical to the Superb Parrot’s survival, says Tracee Burke. “For a range of reasons, farm trees, including ones that are more than 100 years old, aren’t being replaced when they die. We encourage all landholders to protect old paddock trees and plant new ones.”
Funding has come from the NSW Government’s Saving Our Species (SOS) Program and fourteen landholders in Cowra, Canowindra, Cargo, Gooloogong, Manildra, Newbridge and Woodstock (all within the Mid Lachlan Landcare boundary) have been successful in receiving rolls of steel cage mesh, fence posts and native tube stock.
“Some of our newer landholders needed additional support with the cage construction process so we were grateful our volunteer member, Gordon Refshauge, was willing to help us make a video on his paddock tree cage construction technique,” said Burke. You can share your tree growing story by contacting midlachlanlandcare@gmail.com