Category Archives: Research

Creating bird-friendly gardens in bush fire prone areas fact sheet

The Nature Conservation Council, in conjunction with Birds in Backyards, has put together a fact sheet that explains how people can design their gardens to mitigate risk from bushfire, whilst also providing important habitat for birds (and other wildlife). http://www.nature.org.au/media/1794/bird-friendly-garden-factsheet.pdf

 

 

Blue Mountains Bushcare Conference 2013 Sharing Bushcare Energy

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Exciting news! You are invited to the inaugural Blue Mountains Bushcare Conference and Workshop. Come along and hear such expert speakers as Margaret Baker, who will talk on plants and geology in the mountains. Council staff will also present information on Council’s weed and bushland management strategies and Blue Mountains projects including grant funded projects. Continue reading →

How Plants Respond to Change: community monitoring program

We are interested to hear from you if:

  • you have rare plants (either Threatened species or ROTAPs) in your local Bushcare patch or near where you live;
  • there is a hazard reduction burn scheduled for an area where you are working;
  • your Bushcare patch has experienced high frequency or severity fires; or
  • you are a keen walker and botanist with an interest in what happens after bushfires.

We are currently writing the draft guidelines and are keen to involve locals with an interest in plants to contribute to improving the knowledge base for the conservation of plants in the Blue Mountains.

If you are interested in being involved, please send an email to Liz Tasker.

We will include more information about the guidelines in a future email bulletin and in Gecko.

Gecko Summer 2013

In this issue:

  • Coming Events
  • Fireweed or Fireweed Groundsel – Weed or Native?
  • Holly Treatment Methods – With Some Surprising Results
  • Have Your Say On The Future of Waste in the Mountains
  • Birds of the Lower Blue Mountains
  • The Australian Crayfish Expert at Blue Mountains Connected Waters Symposium
  • Invitation to 19th Annual Bushcare/Landcare BBQ April 13, 2013
  • Review of Council’s Community Conservation Program

Gecko_Summer_2013 PDF file – 970 KB

Gecko Spring 2012

In this issue:

  • Coming Events
  • Get to Know your Native Bees
  • Weeds of National Significance / WoNS
  • Sad story of a Montbretia treatment trial
  • Stormwater Solutions Workshop
  • Australian Brush-turkey (Scrub Turkey
  • )Bushcare’s Major Day Out
  • Safe and Sustainable Gardening
  • Measuring Urban Stormwater and Ecology of Streams

Gecko-Spring-2012 PDF file – 1.1 MB

Gecko Autumn 2008

In this issue:

  • Autumn Biodiversity Workshops
  • The Water Page: Save Our Swamps Grant
  • The Water Page: River Styles Assessment Underway
  • Bushfire Management Planning
  • Weed Profile: Billardiera (Sollya) heterophylla – Bluebell CreeperRemote Bushcare
  • Introducing Bushcare Team Leader Lyndal Sullivan
  • New Bushcare Group: Pitt Park, Wentworth Falls
  • Trackcare – an answer to eroding tracks
  • Exhibition: Beginning of Bush Regeneration in Australia
  • Downstream of your Bushcare site

Gecko_Autumn_2008 PDF file – 895 KB