The Palmvale Community Landcare Group would like to welcome you to our Website. The information presented here is a collection of survey data, photos, species lists, educational days, projects and grant/funding applications, and some recollections of what we have been working at since 2000 when we first formed this Landcare Group. Like our group this Webpage is a work in progress and much of what we have achieved to date is not in digital form yet. However one of our goals will be to have this information and photos scanned and included into the Photo Gallery and History of our Working Bees. The early history of the group was documented in a webpage and you can link to this information via the About Us link.
You may be wondering .where is Palmvale, well, you can find a range of maps and plans and our Management Plan for the future in the Our Valley page.
Our Landcare group has been fortunate to have had educational days on many aspects of bushland regeneration from a range of sources, for further information see the Education page.
We have been fortunate to have sourced funding from NHT and Envirofund as well as some smaller amounts from Tweed Landcare Inc, information on Grants and Funding is also to be found on the Education Page.
You will find that the Photo Gallery contains lots of images of working bees, past and present and will be added to over time as a great way of documenting the sites we are working on. Our Monitoring and Evaluation Program has been developed under guidelines from Tweed Landcare Inc. to make reporting on environmental change a clear and straightforward process.
Monitoring and Evaluation has been enabled by the development of an Eco Kit by a team from Palmvale Landcare including: Stephen & Yvonne Rose and Roger Stenlake. This kit has been designed to specifically help and Landcarers in the Tweed area with setting up their monitoring program and contains an amazing amount of information including species lists, a database for inputting the results of groups working bees, and contacts for Tweed area for any Landcare questions you have. To obtain a copy of the Eco Kit on CD Rom please email: palmvale@yahoo.com.au .
If there is any further information you require about our Landcare group please do not hesitate to contact us.
TopTo all the members of Palmvale Community Landcare Group for helping with all aspects of the groups work, eg: signs, working bees, weeding, planting, organising and being there.
Stephen Rose (Bachelor of Science), Palmvale Landcare for undertaking the Management Plan for Palmvale Landcare.
Roger Stenlake (Computer Programmer), Palmvale Landcare for designing the Database for the Ecokit.
A big thank you to the students of Kingscliff TAFE Certificate IV in Web Design.
They have worked collectively on the re-vamping of our Website, and to their teacher Urshula Beere for her support with this redevelopment.
We would like to acknowledge the ongoing support for our efforts by Tweed Landcare Inc. the governing body here in the Tweed Region, with the support of their committee members we have achieved all the outcomes to date. (link to their website)
Goals of the Group are always developing as is this site however one of our goals will be to have this information and photos scanned and included into the Photo Gallery and History of our Working Bees.