Woodend Landcare is proud to support the 2012 Macedon Ranges Sustainable Living Festival.

We will have a stall on the day so please come and say hello.

For more information on the festival visit www.mrsgonline.org.au.

Our first chainsaw training session with Luke Dam was very useful to the participants. Luke is an excellent trainer and he has agreed to do a more “in-depth” session on Sunday morning 12th February next year. The first session was mainly about safety. This one will be a full 3 hours from 9.30AM to 12.30PM and will include the safety aspects again, but also many handy tips around the purchase, ownership and basic maintenance of a saw.

It will not be an accredited course, so there will be no diploma, but you will come away with some very handy information and maybe a few new skills. Even if you have used a saw for decades, as I have, you will still find the course informative.

If you have a saw, please bring it, together with ear protectors, goggles, boots and gloves if you have them. Landcare does have some protective gear if you don’t have any. There will be a small charge for non-Landcare members which will be no more than $20. More information nearer the day but we do need an indication of who will be coming, so please let me know.

Cheers, Peter

VENUE – NORTHERN END OF PYKE STREET NEAR THE CHILDREN’S PARK

DATE – SUNDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2012

TIME – 0930 – 1230

COST – UP TO $20

RSVP – Peter Yates, pandaY@bipond.com

If you would like to learn more about the basics of chainsaw use and safety, Woodend Landcare would like to hear from you.

Woodend Landcare is considering conducting a chainsaw training session to cover basic chainsaw operation. The training session will be conducted by a qualified trainer, however participants will not receive accreditation. The session is likely to take about one hour and may be conducted after a working bee.

The session will be free to Landcare members and at a modest cost to others.

Interested parties will be contacted with session details should the training go ahead.

Interested? Email Peter Yates at pandaY@bigpond.com.

Here is a great opportunity to learn more about this fascinating creature if you missed the Platypus speaker that Woodend Landcare hosted last year after a sighting in Five Mile Creek…

Are there platypus in your creeks?  Would you like to know more about them?

North Central Catchment Management Authority, along with the Glenlyon Upper Loddon Landcare Group and Wombat Forestcare invite you to join us at a Platypus information night.

The Australian Platypus Conservancy will present an illustrated talk about platypus and how you can help monitor them in the Loddon River System.

Date:    Monday 14 November 2011

Time:    6.30pm – 8pm (including a light supper)

Venue:  Glenlyon Community Hall

Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn about the habitat and biology of this unique animal.

RSVP by 5pm Friday 4 November to info@nncma.vic.gov.au or telephone 5448 7124, indicating that you wish to attend the Glenlyon Platypus information session and outline any dietary requirements.