Welcome

The 6th Creek Catchment Group hope you find this website useful with the range of information provided on land management, field days, free courses, publications and links to other environmental organisations/groups.

If you have any comments or suggestions, why not send them our way to katrina@sixthcreek.com

Autumn in the Catchment

• With the cooler conditions and first signs of green grass, now is the ideal time to control rabbit populations through baiting. Contact your local NRM Board office for further details.
• Deciduous trees such as willow and ash are putting on a spectacular display of colour at this time of the year, but their presence in watercourses is not always welcomed. To help keep our waterways clean, you can do your bit by cleaning up fallen leaves and disposing of them in your compost or green waste bin.
• Remember it is important to take before and after photos of work you have done to improve your property. The effects of weed control work over summer will show up now, or perhaps you have fenced stock away from bushland or creek areas and regeneration is occurring?
  
• If you're planning on revegetating land or waterways in the winter months, now is the time to prepare your sites through slashing or spraying the surrounding grasses to reduce competition for the native plants.
• Fire ban season officially ends on 30th April 2008, so be sure to make the most of any opportunity to clean up debris and wood piles on your property.

Latest News!

Another Green Corps team will be working in the Sixth Creek catchment from May - November 2008! The team will be shared amongst other Landcare groups of the rural River Torrens catchment, and will be involved in activities such as:

• woody weed control using various minimal disturbance weed control techniques
• water quality monitoring
• protecting remnant vegetation through wire & post fencing to exclude stock
• use of GPS and mapping of seed collection sites
• Heysen Trail maintenance marker and sign installation
• habitat protection & restoration
• flora/fauna surveys
• walking track construction
• revegetation using local native seedlings

LOCATION: Mount Pleasant through to Sixth Creek

START DATE: 12th May 2008

REGISTER: Contact Lexie from Mission Australia on (08) 8110 4508 or complete an application form and fax it to (08) 8110 4555. Visit www.magreencorps.com.au

Be quick to secure your place as projects are filling fast!

What is Green Corps?

Green Corps is an Australian Government youth development and environmental training program for people aged 17 to 20.

Green Corps gives young volunteers the chance to work on exciting environmental and cultural heritage projects. Projects are full time (35 hours per week) for 26 weeks and gives you work experience, accredited training and leadership development.

You will be paid an allowance of $291 per week for taking part, be provided with work clothes and gain a recognised qualification in OH&S, Senior First Aid and a Certificate I in Horticulture.

You will work with a group of other young people of similar age to you and have the opportunity to try a range of activities that help protect and restore the environment or cultural heritage.

Pick up points can be arranged.

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