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An Autumn Among the Trees – National Eucalyptus Day + Daydreaming in She Oaks.

Last weekend we celebrated Eucalyptus day with our neighbours Weddin Landcare & team at their community nursery with a bit of essential oil distillation. We’ve also focused on She Oaks this month and came to more deeply appreciate the role they play in bringing landsdcapes to life.

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Book Notes: For the Love of Soil by Nicole Masters

For the Love of Soil is a truly marvelous book, filled with case study notes, personal anecdotes, digestive metaphores and practical hints and tips as to how best to learn about and fall in love with the soil you live on and manage.

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Welcoming in 2025 with a Kayak & Chat at Wyangala Dam

on behalf of the Department of Department of Climate Change Energy Environment and Water, has been conducting snapshot salinity water testing along tributaries that flow into the Lachlan & Belubula Rivers. Our ongoing salinity project covers over fifty sites spread across a 700km loop, centred around Cowra and while Wyangala dam is not one of our regular testing sites, it was a good symbolic starting point for kicking off this years testing

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LLS Podcast: Key Indicators to look for if salt is an issue on your farm with Andrew Wooldridge

Mid-Lachlan Landcare, on behalf of the Department of Department of Climate Change Energy Environment and Water, is conducting snapshot salinity water testing along tributaries that flow into the Lachlan & Belubula Rivers. Our lead for that project, Andrew Wooldridge spoke on this topic to Jasmine Wells on the Seeds for Success podcast by Central West Local Land Services.

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Education Tours: HSc Food Technology & Hospitality Paddock-to-Plate

Mid Lachlan Landcare runs educational farm tours for a wide range of student populations including HSC Food Technology and Hospitality as part of their paddock-to-plate unit of work

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Citizen 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.

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A 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.

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Citizen 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…

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Central Tablelands Landcare Muster – Welcome to our Backyard

Mid Lachlan Landcare takes our Central Tablelands Landcare network to visit two best practice farms in the Cowra region.

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Bioblitz, Citizen Science & the iNaturalist App

This week we participated in The Great Southern Bioblitz, a citizen science driven ecological survey that runs for four days each spring. Citizen Science: the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general…

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