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Summer 2012 [latest issue] PDF file - 3.8 MB: Coming Events; Invitation to 18th Annual Bushcare 'Thank You' BBQ celebrating 20 years of Bushcare in the Blue Mountains; The Mystery of the Acetone Smell; 2011 Connected Waters Symposium – Water Conservation in Action; Bushtracks - trial of a new activity maintaining bush tracks; State Government Native Vegetation Survey; Eco Workshop: How to Escape the Tyranny of your Lawn!; The Suburbanites and their Lawns; Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima - a serious weed; Changing Landscapes and Evolving Plants of the Blue Mountains; Bush Regeneration Courses

Spring 2011 PDF file - 3,472 KB: Coming Events; Native Flora Identification for Bushcare Groups; Weeding Aids; Recruiting and Keeping Members; Connected Waters Symposium; Relocating A Possum From Your Roof; A Busy Bushcare Year - 2009/2010; Significant Places in Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment; Waste & Resources Reference Group

Winter 2011 PDF file - 1,050 KB: Coming Events; WEEDS at Local Markets; NINOX STRENUA - Sydney's Powerful Owl; SCIENCE WEEK SEMINARS by National Parks and Wildlife Service; Lower Mountains SHALE FORESTS field days; Which Creek would you Sacrifice?; MYRTLE RUST UPDATE - HOW CAN YOU HELP; Invitation to Bushcare Coordinators; The 2011 Bushcare Picnic report; EASTERN WATER DRAGONS In YOUR BACKYARD

Autumn 2011 PDF file - 2,727 KB: Bushcare/Landcare BBQ Invitation; Coming Events; The World of Macrofungi - Mushrooms; 2010 Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Survey Report now available; Capertee Valley Tree Planting 7-8 May; An Introduction to Eucalyptus; Eucalyptus Workshop with Van Klaphake; Bushcare/Landcare Training Guide Reviewed

Summer 2011 PDF file - 3,870 KB: Coming events; Myrtle Rust; Weed Management Success; Learning to Live with Fire in the Lower Mountains - Workshop Report; The Six Seasons Project; No More Weeds for Sale; Introduction to Eucalyptus - workshop with Jill Dark

Spring 2010 PDF file - 1,559 KB: Coming events; The Pittosporum undulatum debate – is it a weed or native?; Buffer zones to protect native vegetation; Weed Management Strategy; Snakes; Living with fire in the lower mountains; Testing for dieback caused by Phytopththora; Broom in the kitchen

Winter 2010 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 and 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