Sixth Creek Catchment Group Inc.

The Sixth Creek Catchment Group Inc was incorporated in 1998 and has actively worked since then as a group of volunteers with the following objectives as stated in our Constitution

1. To identify the physical and biological assets of the Area
2. To identify unsustainable land and water management practices in the Area
3. To facilitate co-operation among the various statutory bodies, community groups and landholders whose activities impact of the ecological systems of the Sixth Creek Catchment Area
4. To promote sound management by education and the sharing of information and to by carrying out rehabilitation and conservation work on private and public land.

Our management Committee meets monthly and we currently have approximately 40 volunteers who attending working bees at our Worksites.

Initially the Group was directly funded by Government but now we rely on grants , initial from the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges NRM, then the Hills and Fluerieu Landscape board and more recently the Federal National Heritage trust. We have also received donations from philanthropic partners and landowners.

Our focus now is Re-establishing Biodiversity in Sustainable Riparian Habitats of the Sixth Creek

We have six worksites :

• Two on Merchants Road, Basket Range
• Burdetts Scrub CP, Basket Range
• Corkscrew Road, Montacute
• Valley Road, Montacute
• Sixth Creek firetrack, Montacute

Burdetts Scrub is part of the Kenneth Stirling Group of Parks and is owned and managed by DEW through NP&WS.

Since it was burnt in the 2013 Cherryville Fire, and working in close consultation with the Park Ranger, our Group has managed post fire recovery of the Park taking advantage of the mass germination of weeds by immediate follow up control of broom and blackberry as well as poisoning and removal of willows in the main watercourse.