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Soil’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 MoreBook now for our 2024 AGM and Christmas catch up
We hope you can make it along to our Christmas catchup and AGM at the Age of Fishes myseum in Canowindra on Wednesday 27th November from 5.30pm. This year we are excited to announce that the event will be catered by Gerald…
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 MoreOur Soil Microbiology Project Goes Global!
We know it’s a big week for our friends over in the USA but did not expect to wake up this morning and find nearly 1000 of them had landed on our little old website! Turns out the good people…
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 More2024 NSW State of Volunteering -Focus Group Reports. Rural Data Summary
Each year the NSW government publishes an in-depth set of reports analysing the work volunteers do across the state and its value to our ecomony. As a volunteer-based organisation, Landcare groups such as ours compare this big-picture data to that…
Read MoreCentral 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.
Read MoreBioblitz, 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…
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 MoreCelebrating National Tree Day
National tree day was established by Planet Ark in 1996 and has grown to become the largest community tree planting day Australia wide! While we are often out explaining that Landcare is not JUST about planting trees, tree planting remains…
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