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 has been a community leader in Yarram for many years. Recently retired from
running a dairy farm with his wife Joy, he still dedicates himself to Landcare and  advocates for us within his strong community network. David was Chair of the Board for six years and won the Victorian Individual Landcare Award in 2014.

Melissa Ainsworth
Secretary
Melissa and her family have a cow and calf operation at Stradbroke West. Having a former career in natural resource management, Melissa is a keen advocate of modern  sustainable agricultural practices and the protection of remnant vegetation. Highly organised and super efficient she is a wonderful asset to the Board and the 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 in Binginwarri and now adds his skills to the function of our network. His basic philosophy - that we along with all other living things are equally part of nature - encompasses the basic Landcare principles.

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..

David MacCaulay
General Member
Caring for his land before Landcare was even invented, David returns to our Board
after a few years ‘off’ tending his dairy farm. He and his wife Sue both have a passion for the environment and David  has won a number of Landcare Awards and accolades acknowledging his commitment. We are very lucky to have him volunteer for another
term or two helping to guide the network.

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.

Libby Baulderstone
General Member
Libby’s passion for Landcare began in the mid 1980s. Although farm sustainably is
more challenging due to climate change, she believes we shouldn’t forget the significant changes made since 1980. Libby runs a family property producing fine
wool, lamb and beef at Darriman. She also recognises the important social role Landcare plays in more isolated farming communities.

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