Bushfire Recovery

Bushfire recovery – May 2014

It has been a busy three months restoring the tower instruments. Now we are tracking the regrowth. Pictures show the vegetation after the fire and an emerging Mallee seedling in the foreground.  

Out of the ashes

Following the fire on the 17th of January, 2014, Wayne Meyer and Georgia Koerber repaired the burnt instruments. Grant Whiteman and Peter Cale at Calperum station have been a great help; http://www.austlandscapetrust.org.au/projects/riverland/calperum-taylorville.aspx After replacing wind sentrie’s at 2 and 10 metres, a humidity metre also at 10 metres, and the solar panel they were able to get the tower going again! […]