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Landcare Week Hawkesbury Source to Sea 2009
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the Hawkesbury Source to Sea paddle 2009 was to Celebrate Landcare week by paddling the river with land carers stopping off at various landcare sites to meet landcarers and talk about their projects.
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National Willows Taskforce Participation
( 4 items )
As part of being involved in a national approach to planned willow managment Willow Warriors participate in activities to assist the National Willows Taskforce when ever possible.
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Whitewater Awareness Training Days
( 17 items )
As part of our risk Management Willow Warriors have new volunteer attend a whitewater and remote area awarness session at Penrith whitewater Stadium. The session has three objectives:
- To provide basic instruction on self rescue and understanding the power of water
- To allow the participants to make an informed decision on whether they would like to join our group on trips to remote areas on rivers grade three and above.
- To provide basic instruction on what personal items you need for these activtities and how to prepare for remote area whitewater activities
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Barrington River
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Willow Warriors have mapped willows along the Barrington River between Cobark and Barrington township. But when we spoke to the Local rivercare officer in 2006, he did not sound like he was interested in Willow control in the catchment and so we have not progressed the project.
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Bega River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. No Treatment is currently planned along the Bega River.
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Capertee River
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The Capertee Valley was surveyed by motor vehicle in 2006 and no significant invasive willow populatons were noted. The only willow taxa noted in the valley was weeping willows.
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Cattai Ck
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Clyde River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Deua / Morouya Rivers
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate. The Deua River had a Black Willow control project in 2000-2003. this activitiy is monitoring the previously treated sections of tiver
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Eucumbene River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Goobarragandra River
( 10 items )
Willow Warriors have a willow control project on the goobarragandra River which monitors the river for black willows and other seeding hybrids. The project will also treat Crack Willows on a few specific properties over the period 2008-2010 to protect the habitat of the Booroolong Frog and Tumut Grevillea
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Goodradigbee River
( 1 items )
Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Grose River
( 14 items )
Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Kangaroo River
( 0 items )
Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Hawkesbury River
( 6 items )
Willow Warriors have two projects on the Hawkesbury River. The first is to treat and monitor the river below Yarramundi for Black Willows and the second is a bush regeneration project on Clarks Island
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MacDonald River
( 19 items )
the Macdonald Valley Association has a very active River Rescue Project dealing with a number or riparian issues. Willow Warriors are assisting this project by monitoring the river and wetlands for Black willows after the inital control program which ran between 2001 and 2008
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Manning River
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Manning River is on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Wiilow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river to find where St Johns willows (a crack weeping hybrid) has been planted and to confirm there are only weeping willows in the catchment.
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Molongolo River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Murray River
( 5 items )
Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
We spent 5 days on the Murray between 1st and 6th of February 2009 mapping and treating willows from Tom Groggin down through the Murray Gates and down to Maguires Bridge. We took a large number of photos so I have divided the trip into days
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Upper Murrumbidgee River
( 3 items )
Willow Warriors have assisted with mapping willows by taxa in the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment and have helping with monitoring the river for Black Willows
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Nepean River
( 8 items )
Willow Warriors plan to map willow along the Nepean river from Phesants Nest bridge to Yarramundi. As the original Black Willow populations were in the hawkesbury we will be working our way up the river mapping all willows by taxa and where possible treating black willows
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Queanbeyan River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Shoalhaven River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Snowy river
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Swampy Plains River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Thredbo Ck
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Tumut River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Tuross River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Webbs Creek
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
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Wingecarribee River Grey Sallow Project
( 10 items )
The Grey Sallow (Cinerea) project on the Wingecarribee River is based at the Cecil Hoskins conservation reserve were we are helping the National Parks and Wildlife Service control cinerera on the islands in the Bong Bong Reservoir within the reserve. We will also be helping to monitor the galleries treated by contractors to treat any surviving cinerera. The group has also planting native seedlings on two of the islands after treatment was completed
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Wingecarribee River
( 29 items )
Willow Warriors have two projects on the Wingecaribee river. the first is to help in treating Grey Sallow (wild Pussy willow S. Cinerea) along the river, The second is to help treat Crack Willows in the difficult to access sections of the river and in particular the areas of high conservation value which also have small populations of Crack Willows. We have treated Crack Wllows between Berrima Weir and the Old Hume Highway Bridge and from where the rapids start downstream of Berrima and through Wallaby Rocks.
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Wolgan River
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Willow Warriors and Friends of the Colo are treating Crack Willows they have mapped in the Wolgan Valley to prevent them from spreading down into the Wollemi Wilderness Area. They have been assisted by conractors funded by the Hawkesbury Nepean CMA and managed by the Lithgow and Oberon Landcare Association (LOLA)
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Wollondilly River
( 6 items )
Willow Warriors will be mapping willows by taxa along the Wollondilly to determine if a control program is require. We have also treated the crack willows betwen the Wingecarribee junction and Goodmans ford where we have landowner consent as they were small in numbers and size and so it was an opertune time to clear them from the river making future monitoring activities rellatively easy
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Yarrangobilly River
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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the river as part of the Willows out of out Rivers project. We are also monitoring the river for black willows generally and treating all willows found on NPWS Estate.
