Lenah Valley

Lenah Valley Main Creek Site

This is an area beside New Town Rivulet and sits opposite the car park at the end of Lenah Valley Road. The site stretches to the park boundary. It was once infested with dense mature Gorse that was partly removed in 2006 by a contractor, funded by a grant, and partly by volunteer efforts.

Checked on 19 Sep 2023

Checked site and no small Gorse were spotted, however there were a couple of big ones and end of site and some beside the rivulet. A few were found at top of a bank and difficult to get at, could be cute with pole lopper but getting herbicide on would be risky, possible to use rope and harness or a ladder from below. Cutting without applying herbicide would only be a temporary option as most likely they would resprout. Need an applicator on a pole??

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The few easy to do Gorse can be done as a working alone project.

Gorse beside rivulet easy to access

Gorse in saggy site and easy to access

Gorse on edge of bank

Lenah Valley Small Creek Site

Spurge including seeds heads at Lenah Valley 4 July 2020. In the little ephemeral creek near the old farm structure 100 metres up from the New Town Rivulet ford

Brushy Hill

North eastern corner of Wellington Park

This 200 sqm cleared area under the power line and has had Erica over many years

Typical coveraage of Erica within the park

Erica is spread throughout the area particularly to left of the pylon

foreground is within park, but over the fence south on the private land it is very thick. A patch with a white tinge in distance is Erica

On private property to north of park

Events Held

Windy Up High Calmer Lower Down Tuesday 7 March 2023 It was to be the Spanish Heath above New Town Falls, but with strong winds blowing, our work was transferred to the...

Scrawny GorseLenah Valley Tuesday 6 August 2019 The task for the day was to remove some gorse in a small site where it had previously been cut down an...

Spurge and Broom Tuesday 29 January 2019 As part of a removal of spurge beside the Main fire Trail, some weed actions were also planned for the Lenah Val...

Lenah Valley Gorse Follow UpTuesday 3 July 2012 In very pleasant weather the Gorse seedlings at the northern end of the site removed, although some still remain. Most were easy to remove by pulling and seemed to be mostly in …

Gorse Follow-Up Lenah ValleyTuesday 5 July 2011 Although early morning was fine, by the time we were due to meet rain had started. Whilst discussing the situation things improved so a start was made to pull out the smal…

Lenah Valley SitesTuesday 4 Nov 08 Prior to commencing work on the main site we removed stray Broom from near the creek at the park entrance. The remaining Gorse in the northern edge of the park boundary was cleared…

Gorse removal Lenah Valley SitesTuesday 1 July 08 A less than ideal forecast was current and as we arrived for the start of work rain was falling. However a chink of blue showed through and soon we were able to remove raincoats. …

Gorse Removal Lenah ValleyWellington Park Bushcare Group Gorse Removal Lenah Valley Entrance at Wellington Park on Tuesday 4 Mar 08 Continued primary action on the Gorse remaining in the far northern corner of the park boun…

7 Aug 2007

Work was done at the northern end of the 2006 Envirofund site where Gorse was removed. We did not quite complete this section. Still to be tackled is a bigger area of gorse at the southern end of the Envirofund site, most of which is on the old four-wheel-drive track or below. There are also a few gorse bushes scattered about uphill from the track

1 May 2007

Work was done at two sites at the Lenah Valley entrance to the park. A small creek was cleared on regrowth Hemlock, Teasel, Euphorbia and Fuchsia. One Vinca plant was also found and removed.

The other area worked on was the northern end of the 2006 Envirofund site where Gorse was removed. The Gorse had remained there because there were insufficient funds from the project to clear it all.