Key Presenter: Sam Archer - Livestock producer & Biodiversity farmer, (MLA Nuffield Scholar 2008)

Venue: Centennial Park, Bredbo Village.

What you can enjoy …

• Visit farming, industry and community group stalls
• Learn how to achieve profits while enriching landscape health
• Info & talks on land management, weeds, trees, grasses, birds




• Snakes Alive – reptile display
• Learn how to train a sheep dog pup
• Visit Bush Heritage Australia’s “Scottsdale” property
• Enjoy good food and music
• Lots for the kids

Planning conservation to achieving restoration

A conference for everyone involved in conserving Australia’s unique flora and native vegetation

28 September to 1 October 2010, Perth WA

This conference is for practitioners, researchers, governments, community groups, non-government organisations and anyone else interested in plant conservation. We aim to provide updates on the latest, most relevant information, and opportunities to link up with other people working to conserve our native flora.

Landcarers across NSW will be encouraged to become "citizen scientists" with ClimateWatch.

Local ecologist Michael Doherty will be guiding a Tree Walk through various types of woodlands will culminate at the site with remnant snow gums on Mount Ainslie. You will learn to distinguish between eucalyptus species and find out how trees have adapted to environmental conditions such as soils, fire and drought.

The preparations for the National Tree Day 2010 have started and the first planting holes are dug. National Tree Day will be our main planting event as it was in the past two years. This year we will extend our 2009 work. We will be planting mainly shrubs (mid-storey vegetation) along the drainage line close to the Hackett reservoir and at the adjacent sites that we cleared from horehound. We will add some clumps of Silver Wattle and replace some of the tree seedlings that were damaged by grazing.

Working bee to prepare planting holes for the National Tree Day community planting and to remove horehound.

The Serrated Tussock Working Party for NSW and ACT, in partnership with Mid-Western Regional Council, has been successful in securing funding under the Noxious Weeds Grants to employ a project officer to lead a coordinated effort against this highly invasive weed.

The project is the first stage in a 5 year plan to coordinate better district and regional programs so that control efforts increase in their effectiveness and there is a decrease in the impact of serrated tussock.

ACT and Region Frogwatch invites you to a Frog Call Identification Evening in July

• Learn about our local frog species
• Learn how to identify different frogs by their calls
• Practise identifying frogs from a chorus - what species and how many are there?

Landcare Australia has been selected as the environmental charity for Bayer who are celebrating “50 Years of the Pill” with a marketing campaign using Facebook. Other charities include Mission Australia, White Ribbon and International Women’s’ Development Agency.

Capturing the Spirit of the Molonglo

Four major waterways of the Molonglo catchment, the Queanbeyan and Molonglo Rivers and Burra and Jerrabomberra Creeks, combine to provide the lakeside setting for our national capital.