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GECKO ARCHIVE

Winter 2010   [latest issue]   PDF file - 1,733 KB
Learn to Identify and Manager Garden Weeds
Volunteer Opportunity for Tool Maintenance
Soft Engineering and Bushcare
'Save Our Swamps' Project wins National Innovation Award
Friends of the Colo Inc - program for September-November 2010
Eco Choices Program
2010 Annual Bushcare Picnic Report and Awards
The Wattle from Snowy River jumps a few fences

Autumn 2010   PDF file - 1,110 KB
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

Summer 2010   PDF file - 1,272 KB
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 can be downloaded here.

Spring 2009   PDF file - 1,786 KB
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

Winter 2009      PDF file - 1,091 KB
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 International
Plant Identification Workshops

Autumn 2009   PDF file - 1,343 KB
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

Summer 2009   PDF file - 1,185 KB
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
PDF file - 319 KB

Spring 2008   PDF file - 1,100 KB
Remote Area Bushcare
Stream and Swamp Processes Workshop
Protecting and Conserving Aboriginal Landscapes
Birds in Backyards & Blue Mountains Bird Observers
Founder of Bush Regeneration in New South Wales?
The Coming of Mirror Bush to the Blue Mountains
Phytophthora cinnamomi
Also see "The Phytophthora Challenge".
The biggest Turkey Rhubarb?
Whopper Weeders
EXTRA: Make your own Montbretia Weed Wiper
PDF file - 186 KB

Winter 2008   PDF file - 752 KB
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 hand
Monitoring Change in Upland Swamps: the roles of fire and rain
Ideas for celebrating 20 years of Blue Mountains Bushcare
Bushcare celebrates World Environment Day at Springwood

Autumn 2008   PDF file - 895 KB
Autumn Biodiversity Workshops
The Water Page: Save Our Swamps Grant
The Water Page: River Styles Assessment Underway
Bushfire Management Planning
Weed Profile: Billardiera (Sollya) heterophylla - Bluebell Creeper
Remote Bushcare
Introducing Bushcare Team Leader Lyndal Sullivan
New Bushcare Group: Pitt Park, Wentworth Falls
Trackcare - an answer to eroding tracks
Exhibition: Beginning of Bush Regeneration in Australia
Downstream of your Bushcare site

Summer 2008   PDF file - 922 KB
Tackling Weedy Sycamores at Jenolan Caves
The Water Page - Sustainability Grants and other News
Revegetation Work for National Tree Day
Protecting North Lawson Swamp
Sun Valley Bushcare Picnic and Annual Awards
Bushcare Picnic Pictures
Obituary - Helen Lomax

Spring 2007   PDF file - 586 KB
Chris Dewhurst Says Farewell
Natalie Knipler Joins the Team
2007 Catchment Snapshot
Save Our Swamps
Birdwood Gully Biodiversity Workshop
Burgess Falls Track History
Meet BMCC's Green Team

Winter 2007   PDF file - 712 KB
Weed Alert - Long Leaf Willow Primrose
Goodbye from Andy Forster
Upland Swamp Restoration
Streamcare
Water Quality Monitoring
Noxious Weeds team - strategic programme changes
Biodiversity Collection for Library

Autumn 2007   PDF file - 948 KB
Autumn Biodiversity Workshops
The Water Page - Autumn 2007
Swampcare Off to Flying Start
Hester Creek Landcare Group
Jamison Creek Bushcare Group
Introducing Karen Hissing and Trish Kidd
Bushcare Annual Awards

Summer 2007   PDF file - 507 KB
Biological Weed Control
Urban Swamp Rehab Workshop
It’s GOODBYE from Brit
Marmion Road Broom Blitz
South Lawson Park
Plant Profile: Christmas Bells
Linksview Landcare Group

Spring 2006   PDF file - 577 KB
Stream Bank Workshop Report
Pippas Pass Bushcare Group celebrates 10 years
Giant Dragonfly and Water Skink Surveys - volunteers needed
Knapsack Biodiversity
A Fairy Dell Reunion
Cross Street Bushcare celebrates five years

Winter 2006
Dark's Common Landcare Group
Reclaiming the Lost Swamp at Pope's Glen
Beauty or Beast? Rhododendron Ponticum
Glenbrook Lagoon Bushcare Group
The Giant Dragonfly Parade
Bushcare Biodiversity Workshops
Pose Fire Vegetation Surveys

Autumn 2006
Bushcare Biodiversity Workshops
Hanging Swamps
New Threatened Species Officer
Aggie Digging at 80!
Weeding in the Wilderness
2006 Bushcare 'Thank You' BBQ and Awards

Summer 2006
170 years of the Darwin Walk
Return of Remote Bushcare
Welcome to Tracy Williams - new Bushcare Officer
Sediment Plugs - To Weed or Not to Weed (follow-up)
Aggie Assault at Wentworth Falls
New group for Medlow Bath
2006 Bushcare 'Thank You' BBQ invitation

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