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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.
Read MoreWelcoming 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
Read MoreEvent: What’s going to float your boat in 2025? Kayaking at Wyangala Dam
As a community organisation we’re always interested in what floats your boat and as such, we thought we’d start 2025 with a relaxing Kayak, catch up and plant I.D morning at the beautiful Wyangala Dam just outside of Cowra. We…
Read MoreBeetle Watch. Biological Control of St John’s Wort.
One of our Landcare members was lucky enough to find themselves hosting a St John’s wort beetle party last week and was kind enough to share some pictures with us. These beetles are a biological control for this weed and can be used in your weed management strategy.
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 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 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…
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