Volunteers are invited to contribute to a tree-planting day at the Snape Reserve.
The ongoing project to improve the habitat will continue on Saturday morning from 9 am with a tree planting day, continue to the ongoing project to improve the site.
Formally used as grazing and cropping land for over one hundred years, the 846 hectare reserve situated about five kilometres west of Dimboola was purchased in 2002 thanks to the generosity of Brian and Diana Snape, and since taking over, The Trust for Nature has been working on weed and pest animal control and habitat improvement.
This parcel of land forms an important buffer between the Wimmera River and Little Desert and includes areas of shallow sands, low rises, and lignum swampy woodlands, and plains savannah and ridged plains mallee land.
It is home to some significant flora and fauna, including the Powerful Owl, Diamond
Firetail, Painted Honeyeater, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo and Tree Goanna, and significant plants include Upright Spider-orchid, Silky Guinea-flower, Club-hair New Holland Daisy, Thyme
Beard-heath and Salt Paperbark.
Anyone wishing to participate in the tree planting on Saturday is asked to call or text Sharyn Cook, the Snape Reserve Committee chairperson, on 0410 024 171.
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