Dumaresq Creek regeneration

by | 28 Jan 2025 | AURG, SLAM

Welcome to 2025 and advice for the start of our 2nd Sunday Working Bees. Our working bee will involve planting a new area within the Weedy Wasteland to Wildlife Wetland area, some infill planting and possibly weeding as well. Access will be from the south side via...

NAWT win Australia Day Environmental Award

by | 28 Jan 2025 | AURG, Habitat, SLAM

Ken Barnett was stunned recently when told that their group, now known as the North Armidale Walking Tracks Working Group, was to be presented with an Armidale Regional Council Environmental Citizen / Group of the Year Award at the Australia Day ceremony in Central...

RiverCare 2024 working bees

by | 2 Feb 2024 | AURG, Event, SLAM

AURG Members and Friends Bruce, Gordon, Gavin, Marty & Bryan have been whipper snipping, weeding and spraying in preparation for mulching next week of our February planting sites. I addition, we have contracted the Armidale Tree Group to weed the area WW2WW area...

Armidale Urban RiverCare Update

by | 18 Oct 2023 | AURG, Event, SLAM

We had a great day last Sunday planting 1360 grasses (Juncus, Carex and Lomandra). We also planted 1000 on 28 September but had to replant 328 of these that were pulled out on 4 October. Sarah Mica from UNE’s Aquatic Ecology and Restoration Lab showed us how to place...

Hundreds of seedlings pulled at AURG planting!

by | 4 Oct 2023 | AURG, SLAM

Of a thousand plants put in last week at the Weedy Wastelands to Wildlife Wetlands (WW2WW) site, about 380 were pulled out. Some were thrown into water, we fished them out and will try to replant them. Those left on high ground dried out and died. This malicious...

Join in the RiverCare working bees

by | 10 Aug 2023 | AURG, Event, SLAM

We are planning on recommencing our AURG Working Bees for the 2nd Sunday of the month. This will involve planting and mulching and a general tidy up of the site on the northern side of the creek accessed from the corner of Jeffrey and Douglas Streets or along the...

Landcare Community Group Award

by | 5 Jun 2023 | AURG, SLAM, SNELC

AURG Members and Friends Bruce was invited to the Regional Landcare (New England and North West) Awards held at the Mercure Function Centre in Tamworth last weekend as we were nominated for the Landcare Community Group. AURG won the award and Bruce was honoured to...

Armidale Rivercare Working Bees Sundays 8:30am start

by | 29 Mar 2023 | AURG, Event, SLAM

Details for our working bee site are as follows: Time: 8.30am Date: One Sunday a month usually not winter months Location: Park on the cleared area on the southern side of the creek accessed off Kennedy Street. Turn left into the gap between the trees before you reach...