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Trail Cam Captures During A Long, Hot Summer.

It’s been a long, dry summer here in and around Cowra and on my place, up in the hills of Woodstock, there’s not much feed or water around. As depressing as that sounds, it’s also a great opportunity to see what’s hanging out at my place. I don’t have any stock but I do have some water troughs hanging around from when this place was grazed so I dragged this one to a good location, filled it up and popped a trail camera up. Here’s some of what dropped by on those 40-47C days.

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Checking in on one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo Plantings

Tracee re-visited one of our Glossy Black Cockatoo planting sites with land holder Ash. Here’s how the plants are going.

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Responding to Cowra’s Flying Fox Camp 2026 Heat Stress Event

January 2026 saw the Cowra Flying Fox Camp hit with a heat stress event. Thankfully our bats faired relatively well this time but if we don’t work on a coordinated emergency response plan, that may not be the case in the future. Here’s what happened and what we learned through being part of the process

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Decision making that shapes resilient farms with Brian Wehlberg.

Decision making that shapes resilient farms with Brian Wehlberg held in Woodstock during February, 2026

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Eucalyptus Day & Beyond – Life Around A Gum Tree Teaching Resource

Life around the gum tree is an interactive bingo style ecology game that’s perfect for families, primary aged students & anyone wanting to learn more about the life gum trees support.

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Will’s Working Bee

2025 has been a great year for on-ground working bee’s which, thanks to our Glossy Black Cockatoo planting project resulted in 60 volunteers (approximately 240 volunteer hours) across 6 planting events! Brilliant stuff, but that wasn’t enough for you apparently and we’ve been asked to provide MORE working bee’s which is totally amazing.

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Soil Microbiology on Farms

By late November, with around 10 test strips left I headed out with Grazing Group leader Scott Hickman to a farm in Carcoar and to a farmer who’se been doing quite a bit of experimenting of his own in the soil biology space

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A Closer Look at the Bugs in Our Backyards. A Citizen Science Project

A new Citizen Science project led by the Invastive Species Council & Invertebrates Australia launched on iNaturalist this year. Bugs in My Backyard Week ran from 17 – 23 November 2025 creating the first springtime snapshot of bugs across Australia. I joined the project as an individual this year to get a feel for the nuances and challenges around recording bug life.

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An Evening with the Australasian Bat Society

Sandra explained how bats grow forests while we sleep by carrying seeds far and wide before pooping them out where some germinate and become new forests. She explained her work as a bat carer, talked about bat biology, habits and their personalities, dispelling all prior notions we held of these being dirty, evil creatures – they are actually very cute, intelligent and personable!

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Talking Pollinators at Cowra’s Little Magpie Gallery

We were thrilled to be invited to open the Birds, Bees & Blooms exhibition at the Little Magpie Gallery here in Cowra last week. My mind went immediately to the subject of pollination and how I could bring such a broad and vital topic to life in no more than 15 minutes for this art-loving crowd.

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