Around 100 hectares of logged pine forest on top of the Mount Macedon range, were returned to public care after being commercially managed for pine harvesting for several decades.

They will will need care and attention of the local community if they are to return to a healthy native ecosystem.

In 2025 we were successful in obtaining a climate action grant from the Macedon Ranges Council, funded through Bendigo Bank, to commission a climate scientist to gather and collate, map and graph, story and tell us the whys and wherefores of the local climate and weather that many of us are hungry to understand. 

We put a call out to local weather watchers for their data, and in March 2026 climatologist Neil Plummer, completed the document ‘The weather and climate for the Macedon Ranges”

Like a landlocked country, our wildlife can get stuck, unable to feed and breed across the landscape diversity needed to thrive. At the same time our waterways are choked by stock, weeds, visions of English streams, and all manner of fences.

Biolinks (previously known a wildlife corridors) offer a solution for both.

In 2025 we obtained a grant for $20,000 from Melbourne Water, to work on 3 sections of the Riddells Creek as it flows through the township of Macedon. Most of this money will be used for contractors to do the weed removal, and site preparation for planting. We will then plant out the areas in our regular monthly sessions - 10 - 12pm on the 2nd Saturday of the month. All welcome!