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.

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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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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Willow Warriors have mapped willows along the Barrington River between Cobark River junction and Barrington township. There we very few invasive willows between Cobark and Rocky Crossing and little evidence of them spreading. Between rocky Crossing and Barrrington there is a significant number of St Johns Willows (a crack / weeping hybrid) there are very few crack willows in the region and so the risk of the hybrid producing seed is low and there was no evidence of a seeding event.

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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.

Along with South Creek and other creeks to the east of the Hawkesbury River, Cattai Creek has an ever increasing number of black willows. As these galleries get larger and set seed further to the east, the willows will choke the creeks of the Sydney Metropolitan Area should start flooding and causing damage to thousands of homes and businesses in the Sydney  metropolitan  area hopefully the voters who suffer damage from this flooding will start to bring pressure on the NSW government to start  planning the management of willows in NSW.

Willow Warriors ran a mapping activity along the Clyde River to map willows by taxa but so far no invasive willows have been found in the catchment. However the group that paddled the river between Clyde ridge road and shallow Crossing were able to provide some information to the Milton Landcare Group on the extent of a privet infestation along the river and treat one or two isolated privet plants.

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Photos from the Friends of the Colo and Willow Warriors Monitoring Activities along the Colo River.  The Willows out of Wollemi Project that has removed the invasive willows (Black Willows and Crack Willows) in the Colo Catchment is managed by Friends of the Colo and willow warriors volunteers often help with monitoring tasks along the river. particularly outside the National Park in the Wolgan Valley and Colo Valley. 

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Statistics of Black willows found and treated

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Colo River Health Strategy (H-N CMA)

Capertee River Health Strategy (H-N CMA)

Wolgan River Heath Strategy

Wollemi Creek River  Heath Strategy

Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Eucumbene 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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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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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Goodradigbee 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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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Grose 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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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.

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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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 MacDonald River and floodplain wetlands for Black willows after the inital control program which ran between 2001 and 2008. With the help of students from MacMasters Beach SLSC, Pacific Hills Christian School, Arden Anglican School, Ardell Anglican School, Marion and Abottsleigh the numbers of black willows found during monitoring activities have substatially reduced from 813 in 2008to 326 in 2009 and 155 in 2010.

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Manning River is on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Wiilow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Manning 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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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.

Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Indi 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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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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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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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.

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.

Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Snowy 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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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Swampy Plains 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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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.

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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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Tuross 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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Willow Warriors are mapping willows by taxa along the Webbs Creek 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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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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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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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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Willow Warriors will be mapping willows by taxa along the Wollondilly River 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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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.