Operations

More than 60 people were in Northam on Thursday to hear about the new-look natural resource management group Wheatbelt NRM.

A program designed to enrich the lives of older men has undertaken a tree planting program with a difference.

Two wildflower groups, a river conservation society and a native sandalwood enterprise have been given a hand to help with the daily running of their operations.

A project designed to teach children in Northam about their natural surrounds has caught the attention of WA’s science teachers. Avonvale Primary School successfully applied to natural resource group Wheatbelt NRM’s 2011 Community Small Grants scheme. The $15,000 grant meant the school’s science coordinator Velu Ramasamy could organise activities and excursions for all 196 students.

The scenery on Gen Whisson’s journey to work each day is a vastly different one to that of two years ago.

More than 60 students from three Wheatbelt schools have spent a day learning about their natural environment.

Staff normally more at home behind a computer have left the confines of their offices to help rehabilitate a stretch of the Avon River between York and Beverley.

Volunteers working hard to rejuvenate a local waterway west of York, have been recognised for their efforts in the WA Landcare Awards.

Staff from the Avon Catchment Council this week got their hands dirty and helped with the planting of thousands of trees in the Beverley district.

Natural resource management group Wheatbelt NRM has taken out a gong at the 2009 WA Landcare Australia awards.