Mid Lachlan Landcare
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Category: Citizen Science & Toolkits
On the Search for Bathursts Earless Dragons
The Earless Dragon we’re discussing (Tympanocryptis mccartneyi) is tiny at around 13cm long, critically endangered and very tricky to spot given its preference for burrowing down with Wolf spiders and hiding out under rocks – not that any of that dented the spirits of the Grassland Earless Dragon Alliance.
Read MoreCitizen Science: Frog Hunting
Frog ID is a citizen science app that’s contributing to our knowledge about Australia’s frogs. We used it to identify these Peron’s tree frogs.
Read MoreSoil’s Alive! Springtails Under the Microscope
2024 has been a year of encouraging our community to get up close and personal with their soil’s macro and microorganisms.
Read MoreA night in the woods watching Squirrel Gliders
Squirrel Gliders need tall old trees both to nest in and glide from. According to research published by the Australian Journay of Zoology in 2009 (1), they glide at an angle of around 28.5 degrees and generally launch from a horizontal position just under 2m from the top of the tree.
Read MoreCitizen Science Success Stories – Fungi Map & the IUCN’s red list assessments
Those of you who know Mid Lachlan Landcare know that we’re both mycology and citizen science enthusiasts, sharing our passion for both accross many events, including Mycology May & the Great Southern Bioblitz each year. So, when our friends at Fungimap published a link to some interesting reserch that combined these two passions, we just had to give it a closer look…
Read MoreFarming Forecastor – Soil Moisture Probes of the Mid Lachlan Region
The Farming forecastor tool measures and records soil moisture down to 60cm. It’s a great resource for educators, conservationists and graziers.
Read MoreSoil’s Alive – Exploring the unique soil microbiome of the Mid Lachlan Region
Over the course of eight weeks between May and June, Mid lachlan Landcare sampled the microbiome of twenty eight unique sites spanning from public (Cemeteries, Travelling Stock Reserves) to private (Cropping and Grazing farms). With each site being sampled an average of four times we ended up with one hundred and fifteen sample plots, each of which played a small yet important role in uncovering the rich and diverse microbiome of the Mid Lachlan region.
Read MoreeDNA & the Citizen Scientist
Mid Lachlan Landcare used eDNA kits to survey platypuses in Central Tableland’s Great Australian Wildlife Search.
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