Gecko Autumn 2010

In this issue:

  • Invitation to Bushcare Picnic
  • Joyce Brister Remembered
  • Winter Reconnect to Country Programme
  • Introducing new Bushcare Workers – Peter Christmas and Monica Nugent
  • Planting Weekend in Capertee
  • The Truth about Coreopsis
  • Peter Andrews Landscaping Debate
  • A Happy Eastern Long Necked Turtle
  • Spotted Tail Quoll

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Gecko Summer 2010

In this issue:

  • Weed or Native? Telling the difference
  • Peter Andrews book on landscape management
  • Nathan Summers says Farewell
  • Photographic Exhibition at the Bushcare Picnic
  • Plants for Carbon Offsets
  • Blue Mountains’ first feral clematis
  • Swamp Care Field Days
  • Joan Gahl – Blue Mountains 2010 Citizen of the Year
  • ClimateWatch: Your chance to contribute to climate science
  • Joan Evelyn Storey
  • Details of TAFE Environment Courses for 2010

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Gecko Spring 2009

In this issue:

  • Mt Wilson Bushcare Group Celebrate their 10th Anniversary
  • Beware! Jumping Ants
  • Are you ever tempted to wear your tutu to Bushcare?
  • Introducing Erin Hall, the new Bushcare Officer
  • Conservation Society Plant Study Group Open to New Members
  • BMCC Environmental Directory – October 2009
  • How About Some Extreme Weeding – with Remote Bushcare?
  • Workshops on Your Local Vegetation Communities
  • Reconnecting to Country – Conversations with Bushcare
  • Gecko play equipment installed in Else-Mitchell Park, Springwood

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Gecko Winter 2009

In this issue:

  • Working with Blue Mountains Bushcare Network
  • Reconnecting to Country – Conversations with Bushcare
  • Bushcare ‘Thank You’ BBQ – Awards and Pictures
  • Bye Bye to Trish Kidd
  • Swampcare Update
  • Vegetation Mapping
  • Vale Terry Vaughan
  • Bushcare Hat Goes Internationa
  • lPlant Identification Workshops

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Gecko Autumn 2009

In this issue:

        • Exotic South American rush Juncus microcephalus
        • Bushcare ‘Thank You’ BBQ Invitation
        • Plant What Native Where – Does Provenance Matter
        • What’s happening in the Lower Mountains
        • Central Park, Wentworth Falls
        • Hollyhocks to Hakeas: a Gardener’s Evolution
        • Safe and Sustainable Gardening – booklet reviewed
        • Sustainable Living Competition
        • Photographic Exhibition for Bushcare Picnic

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Gecko Summer 2009

In this issue:

  • Clean Up Day Registration
  • Koalas in the Blue Mountains?
  • The Science around Choosing Plants
  • Grey Headed Flying Foxes Visiting
  • Trackcare
  • Weed Identification Books
  • Free Trees to Offset Carbon Emissions
  • A Blue Mountains Seedbank
  • Photographic Exhibition for Bushcare Picnic
  • Protecting Sites from Phytophthera
  • Bush Regeneration Training
  • Rare Visitor – Brush Turkey at Lapstone
  • Dwarf Mountain Pine (Microstrobos fitzgeraldii)

EXTRA: How to use your Montbretia Weed Wiper
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Gecko Spring 2008

In this issue:

  • Remote Area Bushcare
  • Stream and Swamp Processes Workshop
  • Protecting and Conserving Aboriginal Landscapes
  • Birds in Backyards and Blue Mountains Bird Observers
  • Founder of Bush Regeneration in New South Wales?
  • The Coming of Mirror Bush to the Blue Mountains
  • Phytophthora cinnamomi
  • Weed wiper-making-a-wiper

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Gecko Winter 2008

In this issue:

  • Remote Area Bushcare
  • Micro Bats talk by Marg Turton
  • The Water Page: 2007 Aquatic Reports now available
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies – learn the difference
  • Tallest Weed? David Coleby finds a two-metre Prickly Sowthistle
  • Phytophthora Management Workshop
    Also read “The Phytophthora Challenge“.Students from St Pauls Grammar at Cranebrook give a helping handMonitoring Change in Upland Swamps: the roles of fire and rainIdeas for celebrating 20 years of Blue Mountains BushcareBushcare celebrates World Environment Day at Springwood

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