Ways members of the public can assist the bushfire recovery process of a vital piece of the Milton environment will be outlined in an upcoming webinar.
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The NSW Government Department of Planning Industry and Environment, as part of Biodiversity Month, is hosting a series of online community events which includes the 'Rebuilding Forests in Milton' webinar on Tuesday September 28 from 12-1 pm.
Presenters include:
David Bain, Threatened Species Officer with the NSW Government's Saving our Species
Leesa Kelly, Land Services Officer from South East Local Land Services Natural Resource Management Team
FIona Stewart and Sybille Davidson from Milton Rural Landcare.
All three organisations will present current opportunities for the community to get involved in forest restoration in the Milton region.
Milton is home to the Milton Ulladulla Subtropical Rainforest (MUSR), a highly threatened vegetation community that is restricted to the volcanic soils of the Milton and Ulladulla area.
Conservation of MUSR is being undertaken as part of the NSW Saving our Species program through a community focused partnership between state and local government, private landholders and Milton Rural Landcare.
Milton and its surrounds were devastated by the Black Summer bushfires, prompting both government and community-driven actions to evolve focusing on broad forest restoration.
This information session focuses on the ongoing MUSR Revival project, the post-fire rebuilding efforts of the Local Land Services and the Milton Rural Landcare Forest Recovery Project.
The collective action of these three groups is offering current opportunities for the local community to rebuild critically endangered plant communities like the MUSR, as well as restoring other valuable forest and woodland communities that were impacted by the fire.
Leesa Kelly from Local Land Services will talk through the Local Land Services contribution to the Milton environment and community from past and existing natural resource management programs.
Fiona Stewart and Sybille Davidson from the Milton Rural Landcare Forest Recovery Project will unpack the impact of fire on the Milton rainforest, the difficulty of sourcing seed in burnt landscapes, their aim to extend and recreate the vegetation corridors between the remnant isolated patches of rainforest and other forests across this region and enhance populations of forest species, and the need to monitor recovery to understand forest restoration for flora and fauna.
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