Timber Creek

The Timber Creek Rangers are an ILC Real Jobs Program funded ranger group working out of a very small town in the very large Victoria River District. Based at the northern end of Judbarra-Gregory National Park and surrounded by beautiful plateaus, gullies and rivers, the Timber Creek Rangers engage with numerous land management contracts helping to protect their lands from the ravages of fire and ferals.

In 2016 the Timber Creek Rangers engaged with the Central Land Council on a Ranger exchange where the Rangers collaborated and learnt about varying fire, weed and feral management actions that could be implemented within the Victoria River District. Not only learning about caring for country, the Rangers also stepped out of their comfort zone and went on air, talking about their program and what they.

Future areas of interest for the group will include cultural fire management of the Judburra-Gregory NP in collaboration with Parks & Wildlife staff and the Central Land Council’s Dagaragu ranger group. The rangers are also interested in developing their capacity and operations on the Victoria River in support of traditional owners aspirations to protect and manage important threatened species which depend on the river and its surrounding riparian vegetation zones.