This page gets EVER LONGER – because so many people have been so wonderful. Without all of you, it would not be possible to do what we have done at Esdale and Adnamira since 2012. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
None of our projects would have been possible without the support of BARBARA HAMER whose love of the Australian bush and wildlife was an inspiration. We miss her.
Other family support has come from:
Prof CRAIG MORITZ
JESSIE MORITZ AND YUNUS ZAHEED
CHARLES MORITZ – usually far away on another continent
Also our neighbours ANDREW LEONARD and FRANK KAVENEY for their considerable patience with my lack of knowledge and sudden changes of plan. And our other neighbours for their (fairly) quiet scepticism and emotional support.
MURRUMBATEMAN LANDCARE GROUP (Jacqui Stoll, Sue McIntyre, Lisa Borella and many more) for plant propagation, advice, and encouragement
SOUTHEAST LOCAL LAND SERVICES (previously the Murrumbidgee Catchment Authority) has given us a Box Gum Woodland grant to rehabilitate 13 ha of steep slope on Esdale in 2014, a grant for 5 small enclosures on Esdale in 2015, and in 2016 grants for two windbreaks and two rocky knolls on both properties.
GREENING AUSTRALIA Capital Region -for two grants in 1999 and 2003 for riparian fencing and planting, a Whole Paddock Rehabilitation grant in 2013, plants for the K2C grant in 2014, two Glossy Black Cockatoo areas, one planted by the Green Army on our roughest country in 2015, and the other with ThinkPlace in 2018, plus skilled weeding assistance with our Box-Gum Woodland . And just being awesome.
FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE – got us started with our Little Triangles program, replacing paddock trees with 6m fenced triangles of trees and supporting shrubs over three years 2016-18. We’ve continued the project with 10-20 more triangles each year.
Most recent thanks go to:
2025 – Another windbreak and connection for Esdale – with Dmitry, Jack, Megan, Braedy, Ryan and Kate (no truck de-bogging needed)
2024 – A windbreak for Adnamira and some infill on Esdale with help from Murrumbateman Landcare volunteers ( Anne, Sue and Bob, Sonya Duus) and a third year from Dmitry and the planting team.. including a brief visit by junior planters Edith from Queensland, and Maya in her pram. Plus the Greenfleet team, plus the Mulliondale stepping stone…plus Braedy and the Cutting Allocasuarinas
2023 Top of the Gully and Top of the Box Gum infills Dmitry, Zach, Jack, Megan, Marga, Siobhan, Ollie,
2022 – Building a replacement for the dying pine windbreaks – Dmitry again, Sarah for going beyond the call of visitor duty, Oscar, Will, James, Marga, Zach, Jack, Amy, Octavio, Yun Le, Rhiannon, and more…
2021 – Dmitry, Reid, James, Marga, Kate O’Hara (plus truck), Jessie and Yunus for the new Box Gum connecting windbreak, lots of little triangles in the Windmill Paddock on Esdale and finishing the Adnamira tree lines from 2020.
2021 – Weed and river willow control with Patrick (back from Newcastle) and also assistance with erosion control by neighbours Jaiha and Kailen
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2020 – Gully Restoration Crews plus post-Drought Covid-safe replanters – Priya, the Hussaini family, Jo, Jessie, my cousin Sarah, David Duchene and Maide, France and Kate O’Hara:
2019 The Adnamira Superb Parrot Habitat Crews, – Renee Catullo, the Borevitz Lab, Priya and Kyle plus the computer gaming team suddenly thrown into real life: Jack, Brad, and Garrett, plus John and Patrick
Moise, John, Sam, Bush and Patrick – who got I hope more insight into living in Australia through the Global Alliance for Peace visits in 2018 and 2019.
Matthew Kent 2016-2018 – for careful and precise on the ground help over three years.
Greening Australia and ThinkPlace for the second Glossy Black Cockatoo Plantation (Cockatoo 2) 2018 – two busloads of helpers plus the Greening Australia and Thinkplace Rebound crews for a challenging ridgeline.
The Adnamira Windbreak Planting Crew 2017- 3 days of planting instead of six, fully mulched and watered. Yay.
Fabian and Emil – for their contributions to willow-poisoning, woolshed clearing and other horrible jobs.
2016 The Borevitz Lab Team– Justin,( Jake and Eva) Borevitz, Adrienne Nicotra, Tricia (Nicole and Serenity) Copas, Megan Supple, Abigail Ryan, Andrew, Pia, and two more excellent pink-hat constructing girls whose names I didn’t catch, oops
Andres from GreenEdge GardenScape – out of the garden and into the paddock, ably assisted by an extremely cute puppy. Special skills including leaping from fence-posts in a single bound.
Yan Li – interpreter and social worker, and now our most stylish ever tree-planter.
Dr Sonal Singhal, previously of Berkeley California, but now at the University of Michigan. Expert smacking of star pickets for our tiny paddock tree enclosures.
2016‘s wonderful, (almost) inexhaustible tree planting assistants: Matthew Kent and Kristen Whiting who are both students of environmental science and/or management.
Hannah Miller of Berkeley, California for intrepid wattle-seeding, weeding, and most of all for tackling the many, many problems of Wombat Hollow armed with nothing but ghost-busting kit.
Vicki Funk from the Smithsonian for help checking up on our young trees.
and Scott Edwards from Harvard University for not just the extreme weeding in our 2011 plantation, but also for bravely removing a dead chicken from our chicken tractor. “I’m an ornithologist” he says calmly.
KOSCIUSKO TO COAST FOUNDATION – Lesley Peden and Rainer Rehwinkel – for the Small Bird linkage project of five fenced exclosures to allow small birds to move around the landscape from 2014 on.
JAKE SHAPIRO (2011)
GEORGIA CHENEVIX TRENCH (2013-2014)
– the unstoppable proprietor of Georgia’s Patch
(Prof) NICK MARTIN (2014) –the efficiency expert behind Nick’s Patch
(Dr) James Taylor -Economics lecturer and expert hole-digger
AJ and Jess – the high-speed classicist and the oboist.
ALEX CARTER and JACOB – the international team flown in from Colorado for site prep.
MATT KILBY, GLOBAL LAND REPAIR
TRENT WILKE – the invaluable, patient and energetic year-round assistant of 2013 and 2014.
MOOS BLOM, FOTEINI SBAGOPOULOU, AND JULIA TURBHAN
making the unstoppable team of Europeans planting through the wind and the rain
JO CONSTANTINIDES – not just planting, but cake as well
KATE – all the way from Atlanta, Georgia 
JACQUI STOL , all the way from Murrumbateman
2014 – EMMA, LACHLAN, JIMMY, (PLUS AJ, JESSIE, YUNUS, KATE, JO, JACQUI, JAMES TAYLOR and TRENT were the team for 5 JULY, not forgetting ANDREW LEONARD and the amazing mulch pile, plus BEN SCANES for site prep
ANDREW KILBY for the essential fencing out of the sheep.
HAMISH MCCALLUM (PROF) visiting from Brisbane and CHARLOTTE JENNINGS, freshly arrived from Papua New Guinea, for help with the grass seedling planting.
2014 JUSTIN BOREVITZ, JASON BRAGG AND TRICIA STEWART, plus the kid brigade for setting up the lovely tree-jewellery, sorry tree research program.
2014 HANNAH SELMES, LESLEY PEDEN (again) and THE WONDERFUL CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT STUDENTS who mulched some of the Box-Gum Woodland trees on September 4 2014.
THE 2015 BRISBANE TEAM,
SARAH ASHMORE, ALAN MACKAY-SIM (knife sharpener extraordinaire), SOPHIE (aka the Easter Bunny), LISA PEINE, MARTIN (official photographer)
THE CAIRNS/CANBERRA TEAM
TRICIA GRAVES, TOM BURKOT, MILLIE BURKOT
THE CANBERRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMERA TEAM
ANDREW HENJAK, CORIN PENNOCK, STEPHEN NEWSON
THE ANZAC DAY2015 TEAM
Andrew, Raihan, Craig, James Taylor, Miles, Laila, Jessie, Felipe
THE DAM PLANTING TEAM – COCKATOO SNACK BAR
The tree maintenance and bonfire team – Andrew Henjak, Rachel Everett and Dylan
and the BIGGEST CREW WE’VE EVER HAD – for planting at Carkella on May 30th 2015
THANKYOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE!!!
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