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Newsletters no.79, Summer 2026, no.78 Spring 2025 and no.77 Winter 2025

Summer 2026, n0.79  Xmas party, CFA, Brigite’s blog re our new Song Meter Micro birdsong recorder, Junior Landcare school visits, talks by Angela Foley (cultural landscapes) and Barry Golding (Six Peaks Speak), Invasive weed alert re South African Weed-orchid, Corvids, 2025 rainfall.

 

 

 

Spring 2025, no.78    AGM – President’s report and talk by David Holmgren on integrating Permaculture and Landcare principles; a cool burn retrospective; tribute to Penny Roberts; biolink talk to Braemar students; NDLG library; free plants…

 

 

 

Winter 2025, no.77   Lots on fire – Martin Roberts on Burning insights; cultural and eco burning; Ross Colliver on Maribyrnong’s Water Think Tank; Tanya Loos on Blue-tongue lizards; Brigitte’s blog on bandicoots; Newham climate trends, and rainfall; Biolinks “The movie”; history of the Weedies; our newsletter history.

Newsletter no.76, Autumn 2025

This issue features Living with Wildlife with ecologist Tanya Loos; Stephen Murphy on Wombats; David Cheal on Blackwoods; Olivia Hedge on Electrify 3442; Brigitte’s blog on microbats; NDLG incorporation and membership survey; 2025 rainfall.

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Newsletter no.75, Summer 2025

Our first newsletter for 2025 features our 2024 Xmas event; Jim Sansom on our Landcare history; our Fire risk and biodiversity events; Echidnas; Anderson Triangle update, 2024 rainfall and a new feature from a junior landcarer – on plastics.

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NEWSLETTER NO.73, WINTER 2024

Our latest newsletter has news of Autumn plantings; report of a field visit by Stephen Murphy on sustainable bio-rich landscapes; a night-time insect survey; our engagement with schools; rodent control (what poisons not to use); new roadside signs; Brigitte’s blog on a marauding Phascogale, and as always, Bruce’s rainfall report.

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Newsletter no.72, Summer 2024

The latest newsletter includes news on grants and plant give-aways; the Wesley Park bench; Brigitte’s blog on thermal imaging; Mistletoe; the Anderson rd Triangle’s progress with photos; Bruce’s rainfall report and his grand daughter/young member Olivia Hedge’s big wins … cover of newsletter 72

Newsletter no.71, Spring 2023

cover of newsletter no 71Our latest newsletter has news of new grants for our Biolink project, articles on pollinator corridors, a koala and platypus pathway, celebrating the transfer of Hanging Rock’s East Paddock and new masterplan, Brigitte’s ever-popular blog – this time on kids and nature, forest protection, choosing non-invasive plants, videos to watch and other resources.

 

NEWSLETTER Winter 2023, no.70

This latest issue has articles by members on new projects – Langethy Creek, and the Triangle renovation at the corner of Anderson and Boundary roads; reports on a Biolinks Alliance rewilding seminar, our AGM and talk on wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann, Brigitte on fauna scats, and Bruce’s rainfall report.