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June 2022
News of the communities of the Paterson and Allyn River Valleys
Gresford District Landcare Group on the Allyn River at Allynbrook.
As the big wet continues...
Dorothea Mackellar's poem My Country is widely known especially the lines: "I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains." But less well known is that the poem is believed to have been inspired by her experience of rural life in our region. "From 1898 to 1901, the Mackellars owned Torryburn station, near East Gresford, NSW, during one of the region's driest times. While holidaying at the property the family witnessed the breaking of a drought. In later life, Dorothea Mackellar recalled how, after the rain, the grass began to shoot across the parched, cracked soil of the paddocks and, as she watched from the verandah, the land to the horizon turned green before her eyes." (www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/hunter-valley/my-country-dorothea-mackellar)
Last month, as our most recent big wet continued, the Gresford District Landcare Group organised a field day to consider responses to recent post flood riverbank erosion. Read the full story on page 13
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