The Strontian Road Landcare Group (SRLG) formed in 1991, in response to salinity issues. The increasing soil salinity was gradually laying waste to ever-increasing areas along the Strontian Road, with large redgums starting to die, pastures and crops failing to thrive, and dam water becoming increasingly salty.
With the help, advice and funding from many agencies and individuals, members of the SRLG set about planting trial plots of salt-tolerant species, installing piezometers to monitor the watertable, and visiting sites in other areas where action has been taken to deal with saline soils.
Within two years of the first meeting, approximately 10,000 trees were planted and 600 ha of perennial pastures such as lucerne established. This was followed by large plantings of both Old Man Saltbush and local native species of trees and shrubs over several properties both within the catchment and those bordering it. Improvement was in evidence over the next few years – visually, as well as from objective measurements regarding soil and water salt concentrations. After many years of wonderful work SRLG decided to close, transferring leftover funds to the Narrandera Landcare Group to continue their wonderful work.
