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We have a diverse range of projects and activities to get involved in. These range from water quality testing to tree planting to wildlife monitoring and more.
If you have a catchment-care project in mind, the NCN can help you with grant applications and administration of finances, as well as having a pool of highly knowledgeable and experienced people on your side.
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| | Northern Seminar Series
The Northern Catchments Network, in conjunction with the Kedron Brook and Northern Catchments Creek Rangers, Habitat Brisbane and the Downfall Creek... 
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| | Waterwatch
Waterwatch is a state community water quality monitoring program that encourages people just like you to become active in monitoring water quality in...
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| | Corporate Volunteering
NCN gives local businesses the opportunity for their employees to volunteer to work on bushcare projects around the catchments. This is a great team...
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| | Frog Pond
Chermside and surrounding suburbs were once the home for more than a dozen species of frogs and most of these species used to be found in Seventh...
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| | Biodiversity Monitoring
Wildlife monitoring is one of the many popular activities undertaken by NCN. NCN has supported substantial research projects for pre-and post...
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| | Northern Catchment Rovers
To take bushcare from the local-park scale to a catchment-wide scale, the northern catchments has a roving bushcare group, the NC Rovers. On a...
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| | Richmond Birdwing Butterfly
NCN are actively involved in cultivating and distributing Birdwing Butterfly vines throughout our catchments – the birdwing butterfly vine is the...
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| Weed Mapping Project with Anne Spooner | |
One of the greatest threats to biodiversity is the presence of introduced plant and animal species, that out of their natural context, tend to out-compete native fauna and flora. With this concern at the forefront, the Northern Catchments Network has made a commitment to begin a weed mapping exercise.
Initially, the weed mapping will commence in the upper reaches of Downfall Creek in areas of public access. We will look at the association of particular weed species, their abundance, dispersal mechanisms and degree of weedy infestation.
Heading up the team is Anne Spooner. Anne has intricate knowledge of and years of experience in flora identification and rehabilitation projects. Anne will liaise with interested persons, or tertiary students looking for a project to embark on, to realise what we have been wanting for years - a weed map! Contact Anne by email: anne.spooner@yahoo.com.au
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| The Grass Tree Project - Xanthorrhoea johnsonii | |
When the Hamilton Road extension occurred in 2007, hundreds of Xanthorrhoea johnsonii were in path of the major road link. Due to the actions of the Northern Catchments Network in conjunction with the Brisbane City Council, a major grass tree transplant project ensued. Grass trees were removed with a wide root radius, smoked, burnt or left untreated and then relocated to a number of sites around Chermside Hills and the Raven Street Reserve.
Jo Gates, a member of the NCN and employee of Greening Australia, led a field study to observe changes in the health of individual grass trees that spanned over 2 years. Jo is ready to relaunch her Grass Tree Survey with view to creating a publishable piece of literature that will demonstrate the determinants of success of grass tree transplantation.
This is bound to be a fun and interesting project. We need field assistants to gather data that includes health indicators of individual trees, soil analysis, aspect and slope of habitat and degree of shade cover. Your task can be as scientific or basic as you need it to be - please make contact now for mid-to-late-2010 field work: jgates@qld.greeningaustralia.org.au
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