Funding Available – Saving our Superb Parrot 2024
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
2M ago
Photo Credit – Jayden Gunn We are excited to offer up funding to continue the critically important work everyone has been doing to put scattered paddock trees back into our farms. Planting trees, for the future, to help the Superb Parrot plus many other species in the long term. Some of the key threats to the Superb Parrot are the loss of living and dead hollow bearing trees and poor regeneration of nesting trees. There is a fantastic fact sheet, put together by Local Land Services, about the importance of scattered paddock trees in our landscape and for ..read more
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EDNA & the Citizen Scientist
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
3M ago
We live in a world where seeing is believing and time is money but try telling that to a Platypus… During November, Mid Lachlan Landcare were part of the Central Tableland’s contingent  participating in The Great Australian Wildlife Search sponsored by environmental research charity Odonata.  Our target species was the Platypus and for this survey, rather than relying on our own five senses, we were equip with cutting-edge technology in the shape of eDNA collection kits. To say we were excited was an understatement! ‘E”, or ‘environmental’ DNA sampling uses the presence of ..read more
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Grazing Groups Catch-Up November 2023 Report
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
4M ago
As a part of this day we covered the below three questions to get us all thinking about the upcoming potential dry season. What worked well in your business during the last dry time? What did not work well for you in the last dry time? How are you using your experience from past dry times to make decisions now? These are great questions for anyone to be considering currently and we encourage everyone to answer these questions for themselves. Below are some of the answers from the group which could help when you need to start making decisions if the current weather conditions persist. What w ..read more
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Great Southern Bioblitz
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
4M ago
The Cowra region is home to some of the most beautiful Box Gum Grassy Woodland habitat remaining in Australia and at this time of the year the landscape is a real feast for the senses. The air is sweet with honey nectar from Yellow Box Gum trees and in between the tufts of wallaby grass you’ll spot the deep purple hues and warm, vanilla scent of chocolate Lillies.  Later this month Mid Lachlan Landcare will be hosting a biological census morning on a local Box Gum woodland site as part of the Great Southern Bioblitz. This is a chance to learn more about this fabulous habitat and become ..read more
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Woodland Wildflower and Orchid Walk
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
6M ago
The day couldn’t have been any better for our Woodland Wildflower and Orchid walk at the end of September. We had along some new people who hadn’t been involved with Mid Lachlan Landcare previously which was fantastic, and we all made some new friends as well as seeing some of the gorgeous local wildflowers and orchids. It is amazing to think that much of our local Box Gum Grassy Woodlands used to be covered in many wildflowers, lilies, and orchids. Most of these have now been grazed out unfortunately, but you can see an amazing diversity up around Conimbla National Park. Some favorites for ev ..read more
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New Recruit for Mid Lachlan Landcare
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
6M ago
An additional new Landcare Co-ordinator has come to Mid Lachlan Landcare to help the community of Cowra and its wider district with Landcare education and Landcare project administration and management. Amanda Foxon-Hill has a passion for plants, herbs, fungi and essential oils and brings skills in small business management, teaching and Industrial Chemistry to her new coordinator role. Amanda hails from the Blue Mountains but has been looking for the opportunity to spend more time in the Woodstock-Wyangala region where she and her husband, Aubry own a ‘weekender’ land holding. ‘We have spen ..read more
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Box Gum Grassy Woodland Habitat on Farm – Funding Available
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
6M ago
If you live in the Cowra/Canowindra region, have some remnant woodland on your farm and would like to take some actions to protect or enhance it for the future, we would love to hear from you. Some activities you might like to undertake could include: controlling weeds increasing woodland patch sizes and improving condition reconnecting fragmented remnant patches fencing off remnant patches to allow strategic grazing. establishing appropriate grazing regimes to improve groundcover within a remnant area. supplementary planting within the remnant area supplementing lost timber with other woody ..read more
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Woodland Wildflowers and Orchids
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
7M ago
Spring has sprung, and the weather has been magnificent. Perfect for a trip out to Conimbla National Park for a walk and maybe a picnic. Every couple of days there are new plants coming out in flower with a gorgeous display of colours. Currently the Hardenbergia is out with its clusters of small purple flowers and the spray of blue flowers from the Nodding Blue Lilies are just lovely. There are small Beard Heaths covered in tiny white flowers and of course we can’t forget the green and gold of the many varieties of Wattle currently flowering. It really is worth a visit if you get a chance. It ..read more
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Cowra Concentrates on Trees for Landcare Week
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
8M ago
August 7 marks the beginning of National Landcare Week. To celebrate, Mid Lachlan Landcare (MLL) is launching its new online instruction video, ‘How to Build a Paddock Tree Guard’. ‘Every week is considered Landcare Week by Mid Lachlan Landcare,’ says coordinator Tracee Burke. ‘But for this Landcare Week, we are celebrating all our region’s tree planting achievements and we invite district residents to share their tree stories with us. ‘Trees are so essential’ says MLL’s Education Officer, Trudi Refshauge, who recently spoke to all the Year five and six students at Cowra Council’s Tree Day.&nb ..read more
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Building Connections -Year 1(2022) Project Summary
Mid Lachlan Landcare Blog
by midlachlanlandcare
1y ago
Written by: Corey Tatz – ‘Bulding Connections for Biodiversity in the Central Tablelands’ Project Officer It has been an absolute pleasure hosting our first citizen science project as part of our Landcare and BCT partnership! Thank you to everyone involved for this 12 month pilot project. We recorded more than 4000 observations and 900 species from a team of 26 observers, with these observations holding 72% research grade. Of the species recorded the top three species were Plants (37.98%), Insects (29.72%), and Birds (12.12%). But we also recorded Fungi (8.8%), Arachnids (4.29%), Reptiles (2.2 ..read more
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