Ten Years On: Building On Past Efforts Along Tilbuster Ponds Creek

Tilbuster Ponds Creek is at the headwaters of the Macleay Catchment and is a valuable wildlife corridor. Past plantings by Landcare link this site laterally with surrounding remnant vegetation and revegetated sites nearby. This project aims to restore and rehabilitate portion of Tilbuster Ponds Creek in the Charleston Willows and Armidale Pine Forest recreation areas. With the return of wetter conditions and recent flood rains invasive woody weeds: basket willows, silver poplars and privet and their removal are our major concern. They block the Creek during periods of high flow, trapping large amounts of sediment and adding to already prevalent bank erosion; flooding upstream properties.