Nillumbik Shire Council has engaged Graeme Lorimer, a well know Melbourne ecologist, to assist with a program to provide on-site assistance to landowners to develop an individual vegetation monitoring program tailored to your needs/wants/time available. Monitoring programs may be fauna lists, plant lists, photo points, quadrats, quick quadrats, population monitoring and/or modified 'habitat hecatres' scoring which are outlined in the attached document.
If you are interested in a site visit with Graeme and/or being involved in a monitoring program, please complete the attached Expression of Interest and return it to Council (via email or mail). This will give us an understanding of the amount of time required at each property so that Graeme can schedule his time most productively.
Depending on your level of interest, you may like to work with Graeme and learn about the monitoring technique and the species on your property or he may work on his own and provide you with a report. He will spend a maximum of 3 hours on each property.
Melbourne Waterwatch are also interested in monitoring changes in water quality in the rivers and creeks following the fires. They are interested in working with landholders from within and downstream of affected waterways to monitor changes in stream health. If you have creek frontage and are interested in monitoring water quality, please tick the relevant box on the Expression of Interest form and we will pass your details onto Trish Grant from the Waterwatch program to contact you.
Please return forms via email to jessica.hickey@nillumbik.vic.gov.au or mail to PO Box 476 Greensborough 3088. Graeme will then contact you in the near future to arrange a time to visit.
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Donna Stoddart on 9433 3216 or donna.stoddart@nillumbik.vic.gov.au
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