News & Views

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GLENLYON RAINFALL

July 2025 - 130.5 mm

August 2025 - 96.5 mm

September 2025 - 32.5 mm

October 2025 - 86 mm

For more rainfall data see HERE

NEXT WORKING BEE

Sunday 23rd November 2025

 Glenlyon Recreation Reserve

10.00 am - 12.00 pm

followed by fellowship BBQ

News Updates

Landcare Victoria

North Central CMA

Dear members,

As the incoming GULLG President, I wanted to begin my tenure by personally reaching out to provide this update as we start to look to the year ahead. It is certainly a privilege to lead an organisation with such a proud history of environmental outcomes in our local community and I'm looking forward to working with you all to write the next chapter.

On Sunday, 21st September we held our AGM at the Glenlyon Hall. (Copy here for review.) 

As part of this meeting Margret Lockwood presented what has been a very large piece of work, gathering GULLG's history from over the past near 40 years. This has been framed as a 'partial history' as there are numerous gaps in our records of various activites that GULLG has engaged in over the years. (Copy here). If anyone has feedback, additions, or corrections to this information to please let us know so we can ensure we capture the most accurate information of our history. Once finalised this will be available on our website.

GULLG Committee

A big thank you needs to go to everyone that served on the GULLG committee over the past 12 months. 

I'd like to especially acknowledge Rod Sewell for leading GULLG as President over the past 4 years. His long list of achievements includes the many nesting boxes we now have along the Biolink, too many hands on days to count, some fantastic fundraising that has supported our work, his work representing GULLG on the Reserve Committee and the Victorian Gorse Taskforce and of course for setting the course of many of the projects we hope to work on over the next few years.

I would also like to thank Ian Fleischer for his contribution to the committee over the past 2 years.

A few changes and returning faces on the committee for the year to come. The new committee will be meeting shortly to commence planning for the next year. We do still have one position available for anyone who was not able to make it to the AGM but would like to contribute to the organisation and direction of GULLG.  

A Home at the Reserve

In some exciting news, the Glenlyon Recreation Reserve Committee has agreed that GULLG can take over the old gun club shed (see above). This will allow us to store all of our assets in a central location and give us a base for our hands on days. We are currently working through what we can do to ensure this will be a secure and functionable working space but expect that renovating this space will be on the agenda for future hands on days.

Special thanks needs to be given to Rod for advocating for GULLG at the reserve committee and helping this come together.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday, 26th October at 10:00am

GULLG are doing a special tree planting along Kangaroo Creek on   Rosemary Gollmick's property. 

625 Daylsford-Malmsbury Rd, Wheatsheaf (the house with the red letterbox)

Sunday, 23rd November at 10:00 am

GULLG Hands On morning followed by BBQ lunch

December (Date TBC)

End of year celebration. Details will be available later in the   year

Lastly, I would like to extend a big thank you to all members for your continued support of GULLG this year. We have plenty of interesting projects and work ahead of us and having members willing to jump in and help out is really the backbone on our little group.

Regards, Justin Rowe

Adam Rowe, Rod Sewell, Justin Rowe, Evan Fleischer, Julie Coyle, Evan Davis, Colin Metcalfe

At the GULLG AGM held on Sunday, 21st September 2025, the following were elected as Office Bearers and Committee Members for 2025-26.

President - Justin Rowe

Vice Pres - Rod Sewell

Secretary - Julie Coyle

Treasurer - Adam Rowe

Member - Ian Fleischer

Member - Colin Metcalfe

Member - Evan Davis

Feral deer are having a devastating impact on nature, farmers, foresters, gardeners and are a danger to road users.

Feral deer are emerging as one of Australia’s most serious environmental and agricultural threats. Victoria has four species of deer running wild and possibly the largest feral deer population in Australia, estimated to be over a million animals. The feral deer population is expanding rapidly, invading new areas and increasingly harming the environment and the economy.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

www.vdccn.org.au

A small band of GULLG members meet near the Reserve pavilion each Thursday at 9.30 am for a 2-hour working bee – followed by a coffee and chat at the General Store.

We are the Thursday Morning Group.

Our work is focused on the maintenance of the Biolink walking track - from Dysart Street through to the track entrance on Daylesford-Malmsbury Road.

The work includes mowing and brush-cutting along the track to preserve a comfortable path width for walkers (and their pets), removing fallen branches, burning off, spraying blackberry & gorse, and pulling broom – together with various one-off projects.

This morning (19 Dec) was a one-off project – with the installation of a drainage pipe and an improved walkway around 100 meters from the pavilion bridge. This area has been a perennial wet spot committing walkers to wade through a waterway across the path.

The group is led by GULLG Committee member Ian Fleischer and current members include Ian, Colin M, Colin P, Mick, Allan, John, Keith and Ken. It’s an informal group with attendance based on ‘if you can make it’.

So, if you are passing by on a Thursday morning don’t hesitate to say hello. 

We will be back in the New Year

At the GULLG stall at the New Year's Day Mixed Sports Day event, many new residents asked about appropriate plants for their gardens. It just so happened that Jill Teschendorff was at the event which reminded us of her beautiful and factual book

GROW WILD - Gardening to sustain wildlife in the Hepburn Shire.

Also, see Hepburn Shire 'Indigenous plants for landscaping'

& 'Threatened flora and fauna in Hepburn Shire

Birdly is BirdLife Australia’s new bird ID app. It combines the strengths of traditional field guides with the power of AI technology. 

BirdLife Australia says Birdly is Australia’s first bird identification guide specifically designed and built as an app only. It uses cutting-edge AI technology for bird image (700+ species) and sound recognition (60+ species) as well as 200 videos and 200 3D images. 

Download the Birdly app from the Google Play store or Apple’s App Store.

SOURCE: NCCMA February Chat

Have you seen the nesting boxes installed along the Biolink by GULLGs President Rod Sewell?

The VGT community grant funding program supports communities in reducing gorse in their local area by offering financial support of up to $1,500 to landowners who are prepared to undertake gorse management projects.

VGT Grants can only be accessed through community groups - GULLG submits an annual application on behalf of multiple landholders. More information can be found on the VGT website, or you can ask us for more details.

If you have a gorse control project that you are planning, you could be eligible for grant funding assistance. 

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Any landholders interested in funding for gorse control projects should send an email to glenlyonlandcare@outlook.com and we will organise a time to discuss this with you.