Friends of Tarra-Bulga National Park

Friends of Tarra-Bulga National Park

Website of the Friends Group – Information about working bees and monitoring projects. As well as flora and fauna pictures and descriptions

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Fire Recovery on the Grand Ridge Rd

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Another series of photos, showing the recovery of burnt vegetation over time, this site is on an exposed north facing ridge, where the fire was fairly intense. Some sections of the burnt areas along the Grand Ridge Rd had trees that were mature enough to release lots of seeds and in those spots there has been thick Eucalyptus regeneration. Another large area further west was formerly fully cleared land, which had been replanted with Mountain Ash in the early 1990’s unfortunately these trees had not reached adulthood, which meant that the Mountain Ash, (which cannot re-sprout after a fire like other Eucalyptus species) were all killed;  no seed to release meant that no new trees germinated after the fires only understorey. Friends of Tarra-Bulga National Park have just received a Communities For Nature grant to re-establish canopy trees  at this site.

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Tarra-Bulga National Park on TV

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Here is a nice little segment featuring Tarra-Bulga which was shown on Coxy’s Big Break a few weeks back.

Fire Recovery and Photo-monitoring

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Friends of Tarra-Bulga National Park began a Photo-monitoring project back in 2007 as a way of using images to keep a record of the changes in vegetation in the park, especially in spots that were regenerating or likely to be impacted by disturbance (Such as timber harvesting in land adjacent to the park). The most interesting photo-points in the short term at least have been sites impacted in the 2009 fires. Here is a time-lapse video showing the progress of recovery from a site along  Bulga Park Rd, just South of Balook.  The vegetation type is Wet Forest.

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Pittosporum bicolor - Banyalla

Rainforest Fruits

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While there is not much flowering activity at present at Tarra-Bulga National Park. Plenty of species are laden with fruit which must make it a time of abundance for a range of our bird species. Had a walk around yesterday and found the following fruits on offer.

Tasmannia lanceolata – Mountain Pepper
Hedycarya angustifolia – Austral Mulberry
Billardiera longiflora – Purple Apple Berry
Dianella tasmanica – Tasman Flax-lily
Polyscias sambucifolia – Elderberry Panax
Coprosma hirtella – Rough Coprosma
Coprosma quadrifida – Prickly Currant Bush
Pittosporum bicolor – Banyalla
Sambucus gaudichaudiana – White Elderberry
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Hello Birdy – Lyrebird Study

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If you have seen the episode on song birds on the ABC program “Hello Birdy” you would have probably enjoyed the segment on Lyrebirds and their ability to mimic other birds etc. Here is an interesting video from the researcher interviewed on the show. It is regarding the male Lyrebirds song and dance routine when doing a display.

Parks Week Walks

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Its Parks Week next week and the Heart Foundation are running two guided walks , first one is this Sunday March the 2nd and it will be at the Tarra Valley at 10am.

Next one will be around the Bulga Park area and is on Wednesday (March the 5th).

Anyone interested should register at http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/active-living/walking/Pages/events-and-park-walks.aspx or phone 1300 362 787

Green Walk - 2nd March
Green Walk – 2nd March

Green Walk 5th March

No Flowers and Chocolates for Swamp Wallabies

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Thought we would share this video from our YouTube Channel today. It was put together from our last lot of remote camera photos. Probably not a rare event given the abundance of the species, but our camera was well placed to capture the moment.

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