The Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale is excited to be holding the first SJ Garden Competition to recognise the great home gardens we have within our Shire both rural and suburban across four categories.
Category Archives: Feature posts
Banksia Woodland Project at Brickwood Reserve
Brickwood Reserve is located in an urban area of Byford adjacent to Briggs Park and extending out along Soldiers Road in Cardup. The reserve is environmentally significant and includes Bush Forever areas and threatened ecological communities including Banksia Woodland
Black Cockatoos and Wedge Tail Eagles pull in the crowds
‘We had an amazing turn out for Roost and Rookery – Black Cockatoos & Wedge Tail Eagles, with over 100 people coming to Jarrahdale on Sunday to hear about Landcare SJ’s ongoing Cockatube project, how to participate in one of WA’s largest citizen science projects
Bushfire Appeal for the Black-cockatoos of Kangaroo Island
Landcare SJ helping restore nesting places for the black-cockatoos of Kangaroo Island and other bush-fire affected areas.
Willetton Senior High School Monitoring Activity in Cockatubes
Willetton Senior High School has been monitoring Black Cockatoo activity in three Cockatubes situated in Applecross. The purpose of our visit was to learn more about Darren’s experience with using a number of different solar powered cameras attached to artificial nestboxes.
Landcare SJ R U OK Day 2019
The Landcare SJ Inc Board determined in 2018 that we would hold an annual planting day on national R U OK? Day, in support of community well-being.
Annual Rye Grass Toxicity Workshop
20 beef farmers attended the annual rye grass toxicity session on 10th July at the Keysbrook Hall. -Dr Kevin Hepworth, Field Vet from the Dept Primary Industries and Regional Development gave a presentation about annual rye grass toxicity: Signs and symptoms Controlling ARGT in pasture Testing hay for ARGT -A very good outcome […]
War on Feral Pigs in Serpentine Jarrahdale
By Kristy Gregory, Landcare SJ Project Management Officer . Landholders in Keysbrook have declared war on feral pigs over spring and summer, with a family group of 1 boar, 3 sows and 21 piglets successfully caught in November 2018. Since then, another group has been trapped, thanks to neighbours pooling their skills and knowledge, and […]