Committee

Willow Warriors Committee has the following members in Alphabetic Order:

• Jeff Cottrell - Chairperson and Treasurer
• Susan Kong - Committee Member
• Yant Kong - Committee Member
• Ian Partridge - Committee Member
• Lyn Partridge - Committee Member
• Joanna Willmott - Committee Member
• Fred Wood - Secretary

Funding and Sponsors

Willow Warriors is a not for profit volunteer based Landcare group it applies for community funding for projects that require funding. The funding can take the form of supply of glyphosate, logistical support, grant funding. Our current funding bodies and supporters are:

Be Natural has provided a Landcare Grant of $5,000 to supports the groups ongoing black willow control and monitoring program along 15 rivers in the Hawkesbury Nepean, Southern Rivers and Murrumbidgee Catchments that were mapped during the Environmental trust funded program. The Be Natural Landcare grant will support the group by providing funding to purchase glyphosate, replacement mapping and treatment tools and administration costs of the group.

Be Natural Cereal and Snacks partnered with Landcare Australia in late 2010 to support 6 landcare groups across Australia. In 2011 Be Natural increased their support of Landcare Australia by funding 26 exciting projects through the "Be Natural Landcare" open grant round. The aim of the partnership is to take small steps towards making a positive contribution to our natural landscape. The Be Natural Cereal and Snacks team passionately believe that simple natural ingredients are the best. That’s why their food is, where they can, free from artificial colours, flavours and preservatives.
They also believe in time spent outdoors and value the planet as precious. It’s where we all have fun and it’s only natural that we do our part to look after it. But sometimes it’s overwhelming to know where to begin and the team at Be Natural have looked to Landcare Australia to help them take the first small steps to making an on-going difference to our landscape and environment.

The NSW Environemntal Trust has provided  a River restoration project grant of $38,800 over three years.

The project involves:

• Mapping willows by taxa along whitewater rivers in the south east of NSW.
• Monitor rivers where willows control activitiies have taken place to aprevent not re-infested by invasive willow taxa
• An invasive willow control project on the Goobagandra River to restore the habitat of the endangers Tumut Grevillea and Booroolong Frog

For more details about this project and how the data collected will be used please look at the Willows Out of our River (WOR) project page

The Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority (H-N CMA) provides support in two ways:

The H-N CMA organises and pay the ppremium for all landcare groups in the Hawkesbury Nepean catchment to support the groups and allow us to focus on on ground work rather than sorting out what insurance  we need and who can provide it at the best price.

The H-N CMA provides funding to specific treatment projects to help reimbursed volunteers cost for PPE and travel to specific distant sites

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service provide  biactive glyphosate for treatment projects and logistical support for projects on NPWS Estate.

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Envirofund have provided two grants to Willows Warriors $5,000 for the treatmet of Black Willows on the Grose River and $12,000 for treatment and removal of Crack Willows on the Goobarragandra River .

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Sydney Catchment Authority provided a grant of $8,800 to treat Crack Willows spreading down along the Wingecarribee River .

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Australin Department of Agriculture provided a Defeating the Weeds Menace funding grant to the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment co-ordinating Committee to provide funds for willow Warriors to map willows by Taxa

Australian Department of Stake holders and partners

In addition to the private landowners in the catchments within which we assist with Willow control we have the following organisation are also stakeholders in our projects in their catchments

• Macmasters Beach Surf Life Saving Club
• Hawkesbury City Council
• Tumut Shire Council
• Wingecarribee Shire Council
• Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment Co-ordinating Committee
• Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Committee
• The National Willows Taskforce
• Sydney Catchment Authority
• National Parks and Wildlife Service
• Hawkesbury Nepean CMA
• Department of Lands