Compost Week 3 May – 9 May

…grand scale www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/food-organics-garden-organics/12193822 Blue Mountains City Council Food/Waste Composting www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/waste-recycling/food-waste-composting Blue Mountains City Council Food/Waste Composting/Worm Farming www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/food-waste-composting/composting-worm-farming…

Banksia Park Bushcare and Birriban Landcare working bee and Hollows as Homes walk

…ore details about the program are at: https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Hollows-as-Homes/Hollows-as-Homes You can register at www.hollowsashomes.com or email Dr Adrian Davis hollows.ashomes@gmail.com to find out more. Learn about how tree hollows form, the role they play in supporting our wildlife and what wildlife that you’re likely to spot using them. You’ll learn how to take different tree and hollow measurements, why particular characteristics of…

Draft Water Sensitive Strategic Plan

…Sensitive Strategic Plan aims to set the future direction of how Council manages our city’s waterways and water resources. Submissions close Monday 10 September, 2018. View the draft policy online at www.bluemountainshaveyoursay.com.au/water-sensitive-strategic-plan or in hard copy at Katoomba and Springwood Business Information Centre(s) and Council libraries. Make your submission: * Online at www.bluemountainshaveyoursay.com.au/water-sensitive-…

Post-fire Koala Surveys, Blue Mountains Region Volunteer Call Out

…or post-fire Koala surveys Click here to find out more information https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scienceforwildlife/426123/ Come and join our Post-fire Koala Surveys from next Tuesday 6th Oct, and over the following weeks, to help us learn where koalas have survived the fires in the Blue Mountains region. Find out more here, and register if you are able to participate https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scienceforwildlife Dr Kellie Leigh – E…

Lab ‘n’ Live Waterbugs through the looking glass….

…ydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS) laboratory. Attendees will need to be able to make their own way to each of the laboratory and field venues, but this should be possible even on public transport. http://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/visit/chowder-bay-headland-park/planning-your-visit To book a place contact John Gooderham – flatworm@ozemail.com.au or 0447 893 519 All the resources used in this training are freely available from The Waterbug Comp…

On the web …

…the ‘eccentric’ Bradley sisters started bush regeneration – a movement that radicalised the battle against one of the greatest and oldest enemies of the Australian bush – invasive weeds. Environment Levy Report The new look Environment Levy Report (6 months July – Dec 2014) is completed. This is a comprehensive report on Levy-funded programs and achievements and is now up on the BMCC website at: http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/sustainableliving/enviro…