Improving the health of Jackson Creek
Working with Melbourne Water and inspired by the decades of extraordinary work completed by the local Gisborne volunteers that form “Friends of Jackson Creek”, we’ve begun restoring 6km of waterways, including planting more than 7,800 native trees, with tens of thousands more native trees/plants to be planted in the coming years.
This restored vegetation will create a future tree canopy along Jackson Creek and the waterways, which will be used to reintroduce threatened animal species and bring back much of the birdlife that once belonged in Gisborne.
The ambition is to link this stretch of Jackson Creek with the existing Gisborne walk/cycle trails and allow anyone to walk or cycle along Jackson Creek, from the centre of Gisborne to Glen Junor, and ultimately onto the Macedon Ranges Shared Trail Network.
We acknowledge and are grateful for the significant investment Melbourne Water have contributed to the Glen Junor Program, to help bring this stretch of Jackson Creek back to life. Over $1 million has been jointly invested in this project, between Melbourne Water and Glen Junor.
We look forward to completing the project in full and welcome the day when anyone can walk/cycle along these waterways and fully appreciate the ‘Gisborne Gorge’ and see for themselves, just how lucky we are to have such a beautiful natural asset in our community.