Thanks to all the volunteers who came along to our various planting days at Amity Reach (Yakanup) on Yakamia Creek.
Navigating a mixed bag of winter storms and scorching (by our standards) spring heat, in the end we covered the northern bank with more than 5,000 native seedlings! Thanks also to the Albany weather for finishing the job with a downpour to give the new plants a soak in prep for the summer ahead.
The staged works program at Yakanuphas involved bank recontouring, erosion control, weeding, and finally, revegetation. Once described as a ‘weed infested ditch’, the reach has been transformed into a potential environmental asset that promises to provide habitat, riparian connectivity, and numerous other features that will improve the ecological integrity of the creek.
Thanks to the team at Greenskills for their outstanding work in leading the events, and to The City of Albany WA and OHCG for their ongoing support.
This project is a part of Healthy Estuaries WA– a State Government program that aims to improve the health of our South West estuaries.
