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<\/a>Wildflowers and Herbs:<\/h6>\nThe following wildflowers and herbs can be found growing throughout our nature reserve:<\/p>\n
Common hovea- Hovea heterophylla; <\/em>Dwarf Boronia- Boronia nana var hyssopifolia; <\/em>Love Creeper- Comesperma volubile; <\/em>Mountain Clematis- Clematis aristata; <\/em>Tall sundew- Drosera peltata ssp auriculata; <\/em>Ivy- leaf Violet- Viola hederacea’ <\/em>Kidney Weed- Dochondra repens; <\/em>Common Bird Orchid- Chiloglottis valida; <\/em>Nodding Greenhood Orchid- Pterostylis nutens; <\/em>Wax-Lip Orchid- Glossodia major; <\/em>Golden Bush Pea- Pultenaea gunnii; <\/em>Austral Ladies Tresses- Spiranthes australis; <\/em>Common Maidenhair- Adiantum aethiopicum; <\/em>Austral Bracken- Pteridium esculentum; <\/em>Common Tusscock Grass- Poa labillardierei; <\/em>Twining Fring Lily- Thysantus pattersonii.<\/em><\/p>\nImportant aquatic plants include:<\/h6>\n\n- Triglochin procera<\/em> (water ribbons)<\/li>\n
- Baumea articulata<\/em> (jointed twig-rush)<\/li>\n
- Bolboschoenus fluviatilis<\/em> (tall club sedge)<\/li>\n
- Myriophyllum<\/em> sp (milfoil)<\/li>\n
- Eleocharis sphacelata<\/em> (tall spike-rush)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The Eastern Golf Club has adopted an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system where instead of simply trying to eradicate a pest, the IPM approach considers all information and experience available, accounts for multiple objectives and considers all available preventative and curative options. Based on these foundations decisions are implemented to achieve optimum results. In general terms the goal of the IPM is to provide safe, effective, economical, environmentally sound, and socially sensitive outcomes.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0fundamentals that define the IPM program at The Eastern Golf Club include:<\/p>\n
\n- Identify the pest(s) that are the source of the problem. This is\u00a0not always as simple as it may seem. Correct pest identification\u00a0is required to identify optimum solutions.<\/li>\n
- Understand the biology and economics of the best and the\u00a0system in which the pest exists.<\/li>\n
- Monitor pests and natural controls. What are the signs? What\u00a0are the symptoms? Where does the damage occur? When\u00a0does the damage occur? What environmental conditions are\u00a0present at the time of the damage?<\/li>\n
- Establish economic or aesthetic injury thresholds. Pest\u00a0management systems are to be based on potential damage\u00a0from pest infestations, status of natural enemies, and the\u00a0weather. Actions are taken only when the potential damage is\u00a0sufficient to justify action. It is essential that threshold levels\u00a0be determined for each pest identified as they are often site\u00a0specific are directly impacted by other course management\u00a0systems and users.<\/li>\n
- Select an appropriate strategy of cultural, mechanical, biological,\u00a0and\/or chemical prevention or control techniques.<\/li>\n
- Cultural practices include habitat modification and adapting operating procedures so that pest damage is reduced and natural control is enhanced. Choosing plant varieties that are resistant to pest injury is a cultural control. Cultural methods are essentially preventative measures that reduce the extent of the pest problem and include appropriate turf cultivators, good fertility management, aerating compacted soils, improving drainage, thatch control, raising mower heights, good irrigation management, minimising shade and improving air movement.<\/li>\n
- Biological controls are predators, parasites, and diseases that attack pests.\u00a0Measures can be taken to conserve naturally occurring populations. In\u00a0some situations where naturally occurring biological controls are not effective,\u00a0they can be introduced from outside sources.<\/li>\n
- Chemical control involves selecting a pesticide with the lowest toxicity to\u00a0humans and non-target organisms and using it in such a way to prevent or\u00a0minimize undesirable environmental effects. The lowest effective amount of\u00a0pesticide is applied from carefully calibrated spray equipment.<\/li>\n
- Evaluate the pest management program and improvement when possible.\u00a0This requires keeping, maintaining and reviewing records on a regular\u00a0basis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
We ensure that the maintenance of our course is always with a view for long term improvement and this belief is an ingrained philosophy of our course staff and commitment to the long-lasting improvement of our course. The flow on from having a long-term sustainability outlook on the course is that we use minimal pesticides (including herbicides, fungicides and insecticides) on our course. These chemicals are often short-term fixes to course related issues, which can cause severe damage of the Club’s most valuable asset, our golf course. However, the long-term approach of sustainability has allowed our course to develop its own immunity to the local environment and its challenges throughout the seasons.<\/p>\n
\nyering – tier two risk assessment<\/h2>\n
The Club’s investment into setting a new environmental benchmark has seen support from the Department of Sustainability and Environment,\u00a0Melbourne Water and the Commonwealth of Australia through our referral under the EPBC Act. The Environment Protection and\u00a0Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act) is the Australian Government\u2019s central piece of environmental legislation. It provides a\u00a0legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places \u2014\u00a0defined in the EPBC Act as matters of national environmental significance.<\/p>\n
The undertaking of a Tier 2 Risk Assessment is the first of its kind in Australia for a golf course development. A Tier 2 Risk Assessment\u00a0analyses the proposed pesticide usage at The Eastern Golf Club and makes use of a customer designed hydro-logically based quantitative\u00a0fate and transport pesticide models to predict likely concentrations of pesticide residues in storm water runoff from the golf course.\u00a0The report identifies appropriate water quality objectives for the protection of the identified beneficial uses which are the protection of\u00a0aquatic life in the river and the protection of potable water supply. A comparison is made between predicted environmental concentrations\u00a0and the target water quality objectives (concentrations) to determine the extent of compliance with the target hazard quotients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
horticulture The Club employees a team of Horticulturalists to ensure that the natural vegetation is maintained and extended, and enhances the natural beauty of the surrounding nature reserve. The team have clear objectives to: Re-introduce rare species back into the local area including, but not limited to, yarra gum, buxton gum, lomandra filliforms.\u00a0 Enhance the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6009,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1028","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23045,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1028\/revisions\/23045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES<\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.easterngolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180226_4615_AllisonCrowe.jpg\")
<\/a>Significant fauna includes:<\/h6>\n