Hello everyone Oogy Wawa Productions has produced 3 videos for the Wheel Cactus Warriors and the first two are now uploaded to the website under the Photos & Videos Tab. In the first our President, Ian Grenda, explains "Who we Are" and in the second he talks about "Talking the…
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Wheel Cactus is no longer confined to the Maldon, Baringhup and Nuggetty regions. This dreadful weed has recently been found growing in Walmer and Muckleford, and even within a couple of kilometres of the Castlemaine township. Hence we’d like to remind all landowners who find any new Wheel Cactus plants…
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Our next Wheel Cactus Community Field Day will be on Sunday 29th September on a property a couple of km south of Maldon in Skinners Lane, and will be well signposted along South Parkins Reef Road, off the Maldon-Newstead Road. The morning’s activities will begin at 10:30 am and end…
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The launch of our very own website is exciting news from the Tarrangower Wheel Cactus Group. This long desired wish has been realised thanks to Max Schlachter from Connecting Country, who very kindly provided funds for the creation of the website. Our website was officially launched in July by a…
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Wheel Cactus plants are spreading quickly around our local region, some being found recently just outside Castlemaine. But this invasion can be stopped, with surprisingly little time and effort if the cactus plants are killed while still young and small, especially if they have not been left to grow dense.…
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Our next Tarrangower Cactus Control Field Day will be held on Sunday 25 August 2013 at a paddock a few kms south of Maldon, in Greenhill Bridge Road, near the turn off at Whitlocks Road. There will be good signposting along South Parkins Reef Road. (There is a map in this flyer.)…
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Cactus warrior Ian Grenda (president of the Tarrangower Cactus Control Group) will be interviewed on the Maldon Radio Show this Friday 2nd August. The show runs from 9-11am and Ian will be entertaining us from 10-11am. So tune into 94.9FM.
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The next Tarrangower Cactus Control community Field Day is Sunday 28th July 2013. The venue is the Maldon Historic Reserve in Watersons Road near the turn off to Mount Back Road. Follow the signs from the intersection of Maldon-Bridgewater and Watersons Roads. We have our normal start time of 10.30am…
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The Field Trip headed off towards Mannum at 8.30 and the first stop was at Reedy Creek to demonstrate the effectiveness of mechanical removal of cactus in the area. Other short stops occurred to look at examples of different invasive cactus and methods of control, for example Opuntia ficus-indica, the…
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The first speaker, Mike Chuck (Australian Invasive Cactus Network), spoke about the Australian Invasive Cacti Initiative and the recognition now that cacti are a national rather than local issue. He concentrated on the threat cacti pose to the rangelands of SA. The first National Rangelands Audit was conducted in 2009,…
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A presentation organised by Connecting Country was held at the Maldon Community Centre on 13th March 2013. http://connectingcountry.org.au/03/dont-take-a-shotgun-to-the-cactus-even-if-it-is-annoying-you. The informative and entertaining event featured two speakers. The first was ecologist Geoff Carr, who gave a very passionate and informative talk about how many different plants are categorised as weeds in…
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The 2013 season of the War on Wheel Cactus was very successfully launched by Mount Alexander Shire Councillor Sharon Telford on Sunday 28th April. A record number of 53 Wheel Cactus Warriors turned out to join Sharon in what was a very productive and enjoyable day of cactus killing. We…
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next monthly field day Sunday 26th May 10.30 at Cairn Curran, follow signs from Cairn Curran Sailing Club. All welcome
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