Yarram Yarram Landcare Network

The Board

The Yarram Yarram Landcare Network Board looks after the needs and requirements of the Yarram districts Landcare Groups and Sub-Groups. They do this through well researched strategic direction, active communication with the community, and excellent project management by a small, core group of staff. The YYLN has 341 member families in 10 Landcare Groups. Its members manage land from the top of the high rainfall, high fertility Strzelecki Ranges across the South Gippsland Plains and down to the coast. Its catchment area includes the Nine Mile Creek, Jack, Albert and Tarra Rivers, Bruthen and Merriman Creeks and Jack Smith Lake. The major land use industries in the region are dairy, beef, highgrade wool sheep, prime lambs and forestry. It is a credit to us all that we have had a number of State Landcare Award winners from our region.

Helga Binder
Chair
Helga lives with her partner, Peter, on a beautifully lush rainforest property near the headwaters of the Albert River. She loves the strong sense of community found in Landcare. Her expertise in Graphic Design and small business has been very welcome addition to the wide range of skills offered by other Board members.

David McAninly
Vice Chair
David is a community leader in both Landcare and local sporting associations.  With his wife, Joy, he runs a large and very successful dairy farm in the Albert catchment area. For many years he has applied Landcare principles to the local area and his farming practices. His property is now a showcase for Landcare in action.

Melissa Ainsworth
Secretary
Married with two children, Melissa and her husband Justin breed Angus cattle on their farm at Stradbroke West. Melissa’s career spans over fifteen years in the Natural Resource Management sector, specifically in Park Management. Her hands on experience in farming and NRM bring a very valuable perspective to the Landcare Network.

John McClumpha
Treasurer
Raised on a dairy farm John has always had a heart for the rural areas and bush land and after 42 years in Construction Engineering has retired to a remnant bush block on the Hedley Range in Binginwarri. His basic philosophy - that we along with all other living things are equally part of nature - encompasses the basic Landcare principles.

Anne Hill
General Member
With husband Peter and five children, Anne has lived and worked in Yarram for   over 30yrs. She has always held strong views on sustainability and recycling and been a member of the Yarram Conservation Group, the Tarra Trail Steering Committee, Friends of the Tarra Trail and now the Yarram Urban Landcare Group.

Cathy Trembath
General Member
Before migrating to Australia in 2004 Cathy spent her life in the USA. She is now lives on 85 acres of protected bush in Madalya with husband Leon . Her professional work has always been with community organisations, particularly in governance and capacity building. She returns to the Board after a 6 year absence bringing enormous  enthusiasm and her broad experience with her.

Michael Hobson
General Member
Michael's background as a professional fisherman has given him a unique insight into
the sustainability issues associated with the marine environment. His varied  entrepreneurial experience combined with his dedication to community mean that he will be invaluable in assisting our network to continue to deliver vital onground work with new ideas for building our funding base.

Andrew Missen
General Member
Andrew was raised on a farm at Merriman Creek but spent 20 years in the power industry before returning to the land. For the last 20 years he has been farming sheep
and cattle in Woodside. He respects the land; understands what farming on the plains
means and is prepared to commit a little extra time to make sure it happens. His experience brings additional value to our Board.

Trevor Colvin
General Member
Trevor spent a lot of his working life with The Age newspaper in Australia and China where he was instrumental in starting that country’s first English-language national daily newspaper and a magazine publishing enterprise in Hong Kong. He has started two Landcare Groups since retiring to Gippsland and is keen to broaden the awareness of Landcare in the wider community.

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