Mid Lachlan Landcare
supporting sustainable agriculture and restoring the environment
Squirrel Glider surveys turn up gliders and wildflowers
Our spring Squirrel Glider surveys have just been completed with some new nests and beautiful gliders recorded in the nest boxes. Thanks to our volunteers this season – Marc and Dave, both Senior Threatened Species Officers with Office of Environment and Heritage, Tracee and Ruth from Kangarooby Landcare and Mikla from Young District Landcare. Thanks also to Maurice who showed off his climbing skills shifting nest boxes in some very large trees.
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- Glossodia major
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- Marc and Dave from OEH use the snake eye camera
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- Orchid
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- Tracee and Ruth checking nest boxes
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- Maurice climbing a white box tree
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- Squirrel Glider in nest box
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- Creamy Candles
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- Dillwynia
Livestock handling school in Canowindra on ABC Rural’s Country Hour
Growing the Grazing Revolution’s facilitator Scott Hickman recently attended a livestock handling school in Canowindra with dog trainer Neil McDonald. Listen the audio on ABC Rural’s Country Hour here
Squirrel Glider Field Day
Mid Lachlan Landcare and Young District Landcare collaborated recently for the Squirrel Glider Field Day held at Crowther NSW (between Cowra and Young). The field day coincided with National Threatened Species Day held each year on September 7th to commemorate the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger held in Hobart Zoo in 1936. A woodland nature walk at Clover Leigh Golf Club provided an engaging and beautiful location for the day where 120 students from five primary schools attended to learn about local threatened species including how a nest box program is providing alternative habitat for squirrel gliders, and how to identify and monitor superb parrots with the Office of Environment and Heritage’s threatened species team. Students also had an amazing up-close wildlife experience with the Zoomobile from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
Wattle Day Walk
A beautiful walk and talk organised recently by Young District Landcare showcased an array of wattle (Acacia) species, many in all their golden glory. We learnt about the important ecological role of wattles, ate wattle seed biscuits, busted some wattle myths, and even received our own wattle tree to plant at home. What a relaxing way to spend the day!
School Visit
Visiting agriculture students from Bede Polding College and Nagle College experienced sustainable local production in Cowra and Canowindra recently.
The group visited a number of local properties including a mixed cereal and livestock farm that is addressing salinity issues through implementation of landscape management, a productive holistically managed grazing enterprise, and an olive producer that conducts on-site processing.
Students also got to experience the love from working dog ‘Cherry’!
Cherry the Kelpie
Local site selections for frog surveys
Amelia from CSU, has spent the week selecting sites in the mid Lachlan in order to conduct frog surveys this coming spring. For her PhD she is looking at environmental factors that determine occupancy and breeding activity, and her work will help to inform future management activities. She’s looking for a few
Amelia from CSU, selecting sites in the mid Lachlan to conduct frog surveys
more sites within 30-40 km of Forbes. Contact Mid Lachlan Landcare if you can help or would like more details about her project.
Cranbury, Cudal, Cargo area grazing meeting
Cranbury/Cudal/Cargo grazing meeting with Andrew Wilson from Linert
The Cranbury, Cudal, Cargo area grazing meeting had a good turnout this week with Andrew Wilson from Linert providing great information and answering lots of questions on animal nutrition.
Mat Pearce also demonstrated how his easy and cost effective electric fencing is helping him achieve more recovery time across his property.
We were also happy to welcome representatives from SoilsforLife, a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates positive and sustained change on how we manage our landscape.
Habitat Enhancement – Billy Goat Hill Cowra
Billy Goat Hill Cowra
Each month Mid Lachlan Landcare undertake planting and weed control on Billy Goat Hill in Cowra. This remnant patch of white box woodland is important native bird and reptile habitat and is also a place of significance for the Wiradjuri people.
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