Friends of Lake Hume Gliders

The Friends of the Lake Hume Gliders (FLHG) is a sub-group of the WTLG that work towards improving and extending the safe range of squirrel gliders in the Lake Hume Village area.

Friends of Lake Hume Gliders

The Friends of the Lake Hume Gliders (FLHG) is a sub-group of the WTLG that work towards improving and extending the safe range of squirrel gliders in the Lake Hume Village area.

Members include Lake Hume landholders, their families and friends, interested Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group members and others interested in helping to conserve and learn about the gliders.

The FLHG seek to:

  • Work with private and public landowners
  • Identify issues that may affect the gliders (negatively or positively)
  • Support, engage, canvass and represent (which constituents)
  • Disseminate information to WTLG members and partner landholders in an efficient and timely manner
  • Ensure two-way consultation and communication between WTLG President and partner landholders and the primary contact/key leaders.
  • The FLHG was formed by families of the Lake Hume Village area in 2013. The group initially focussed on the Crown Land below the Hume Dam spillway, following an audit of the natural resources of the area and changes required to improve it for gliders (eg nest boxes for protection, trees reconnecting corridors to improve range, tree shrubs for food sources and removing barb wire).
 

In 2013 the group received funding from the Albury Conservation Company for the supply of 20 nest boxes and plant 100 trees/shrubs. This was so successful the Group received funding the following year for an additional 20 nestboxes and trees, expanding the range of gliders with boxes and jumping trees/food source shrubs further up the road, around the Lake Hume foreshore, and up through the adjacent Hawksview large grazing property.

Since then the group has maintained the site, planted more trees and shrubs, installed steel guards around trees/shrub to protect them from wallabies and kangaroos, continued woody weed control and monitored nest boxes annually using a pole camera.

Friends of Lake Hume Gliders

Hovell tree planting at Lake Hume crossing site

Many Albury locals would be aware of the “Hovell tree” at Nouriel Park. The old River Red Gum is known as the Hovell tree as the explorers Hume and Hovell...

Great New Year’s news

Gliders have been found nesting in one of the recently erected nest boxes near the Lake Hume resort. The discovery was made over the Christmas break by Stuart Lucas who...

Lake Hume Spillway Squirrel Glider Project, Activity 4, January 2013

Background:A dead glider was found tangled on barb wire in a fence. CSU specialist staff identified the animal as likely to be a Squirrel Glider. Barb wire is a known...

Talking gliders at Splitters Ck-Bungowannah Landcare AGM

After a member of the Splitters Ck-Bungowannah Landcare group visited the Lake Hume glider project site we were asked if we could talk to their group about what we had...

Lake Hume Glider Nestbox monitoring and Tree Planting (6 July 2013)

PurposeMonitor and GPS nestboxes, plant trees and protect all plantings from the possums/wallabies.FundingAlbury Conservation Company (and support from Albury Wodonga Parklands)What did we get done?Over 100 trees planted and protected,...

Reflections on Riverbank Revegetation and Nesting Boxes at Hawksview

This brief note documents some riverbank plantings on Hawksview and evaluates their effectiveness in relation to biodiversity aims. Plantings occurred in stages along the NSW bank of the Murray River,...