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Inspiring and supporting our community to conserve and restore Brunswick Valley's
natural environment from forest to foreshore

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Who we are:

Brunswick Valley Landcare is a volunteer community organisation supporting Landcare & Dunecare groups and landholders in the Brunswick River Catchment of New South Wales. Click here to learn more about us.

BVL Newsletter
The January-February 2010 Newsletter is now on line.

Click <here> or on the icon below to read or download a pdf

Please don't print this newsletter if you don't need to - it is designed to be read on line.

Disregard the date on the cover: this is the latest newsletter.

To contact CSO Wendy Gibney: 6626 7028 or
wendy.gibney@byron.nsw.gov.au

To read or download a copy of the latest BVL Enews, click <here>

Send web site contributions to abegg100@gmail.com

Chris Tipton's photo Budgie (above), was an entrant in the last Visions of the Valley competition run in conjunction with the 2008 Brunswick Valley Nature Festival. Volunteers are needed to help organise this year's festival (See story below).

Help us to organise the 2010 Nature Festival

Volunteers are needed to help organise the 2010 Brunswick Valley Nature Festival and the Visions of the Valley photo competition. Festival logo BVL has successfully established both of these events and we would like to maintain the momentum with another great event this year—the fourth since the festival was established in 2004.

The festival's success has been due to the hard work of past organising committees and other willing volunteers, and the support of sponsors. We also have Environmental Trust funding to support the Festival.

The next meeting of the working group for the 2010 Festival will be on Thursday, 11 February, from 1pm - 2 pm at Byron Shire Council Offices in Mullumbimby. If you would like to contribute to the organisation of this year’s festival please contact Wendy Gibney, 6626 7028 or Judy MacDonald, 6684 5390

Welcome to new Laurel Avenue locality group
A new locality group is being formed to care for the land on the hill behind Laurel Ave in Mullumbimby. Laurel Avenue residents would like to protect this area by reducing the impact of weeds and encouraging the natural regeneration of the site.

A bush regenerator will attend a working bee on Sunday 21 February to help identify the plant species on site. The landcarers will also be trained in a variety of methods to control the environmental weeds.

If you are interested in attending please contact Wendy Gibney 66267028. If you live in the neighbourhood and would like to join this group please contact Jim Smith, 6684 2598

Locality groups - please check your web page entry

Information about Brunswick Valley Landcare locality groups is available on the locality groups page <locality groups> or click the link above the navigation bar at the top of this page. Would convenors of groups please check their entry and advise changes to Adrian Begg <abegg100@gmail.com>. Entry should include contact details of someone interested volunteers can call for more information, and details of when your regular working bees are held.

Twenty years of cleaning up Australia

Sunday 7 March is the twentieth anniversary of Clean Up Australia Day.
If you would like to get involved in an event in Mullumbimby contact Belle Arnold 6685 9341 or email belle.arnold@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Committee vacancy
There is a vacancy on the BVL committee following a resignation. Please contact the secretary Madeleine Green madeleinegreen@linknet.com.au or write to Po Box 6 Brunswick Heads 2483 if you wish to nominate for this position.

Membership renewal
You can download a form here <renewal_form.pdf> and send it with your cheque or money order to the Membership Secretary, Brunswick Valley Landcare, PO Box 6 Brunswick Heads 2483. Why not take advantage of the two or five-year renewal option?

Envirofund grant supports Yallakool bush tucker garden
Volunteers are planting a bush tucker garden at the BVL Yallakool site in Ocean Shores as part of an Envirofund Grant.

Plants on the Yallakool Bush Reserve Walk all have traditional applications as bush tucker, medicines, fibres and tools.

Information on the plants can be viewed <here> or downloaded as a pdf.

For details of regular BVL events click here.