Khancoban Landcare Group
In March 2023, members of the Khancoban, Greg Greg, Tooma, and Welaregang communities in the NSW Upper Murray region gathered for a meeting with great enthusiasm. Their purpose was to revive the Khancoban Landcare Group, which had been dormant for over 17 years. The motivation behind their reunion was the profound impact of the 2020 bushfires on their landscape, biodiversity and community.
Khancoban is small, picturesque town Built in the 1960s to accommodate around seven thousand people who came to the Snowy Mountains to work on the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, today Khancoban is the home to approximately 300 residents.
After over 17 years of dormancy, Khancoban community representatives held a meeting of enthusiastic people after community concerns of the impacts of the 2020 fires on their landscapes, on both their farming systems and urban community areas, such as the Khancoban Pondage.
The Group will represent landholders, Community members and Groups and the general community in the Khancoban, Greg Greg, Tooma, Welaregang areas of the NSW Upper Murray Area.
Whilst still very much its own group, Holbrook Landcare Network will support the Khancoban Landcare Group through the provision of a Local Landcare Coordinator and applying for and delivering project grants, delivery of fortnightly newsletters, soil sampling facilities and access to all that HLN has to offer members.
The group is a diverse array of Community groups, Landowners, Business Groups and Government and private stakeholders. Together, they work towards the common goal of taking care of the landscape and the Upper Murray region.
Khancoban Landcare Group also backs onto the Western fall of the Kosciusko National Park and is looking to collaborating the NPWS and Snowy Hydro with the aim of inspiring residents to be more interested and involved in caring for local bushland.
Members are looking to start on a revegetation site along the foreshore of the pondage, working with their school groups and learning about Carbon accounting, along with initiating Community collaboration within a Nest Box Program.
Other projects on the 'Wish List' include Love Grass Identification, Bringenbrong Reserve Spillway, Khancoban Walk Loop, Entrance Beautification, On Farm Erosion Control, Weed Identification Program, Regenerative Agriculture & Carbon Offsetting.
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