Ku-ring-gai Bushfire Management- guided walk with Mark Schuster
Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden 420 Mona Vale Rd, St Ives, NSW, AustraliaKu-ring-gai Bushfire Management: guided walk in the Wildflower Garden and St Ives Showground The Wildflower Garden along St Ives Showground trail is on Garigal Country, land between Mona Vale Road on the ridge and to the north, freshwater Ku-ring-gai Creek. Mark Schuster, Bushfire Technical Ranger for Ku-ring-gai Council will talk about his role in bushfire [...]
Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Park, West Pymble: a guided walk
Ku-ring-gai Bicentennial Park Prince of Wales Dr,, West Pymble, NSW, AustraliaThis short walk will be led by geologist Dr John Martyn, author of Field Guide to the Bushland of the Lane Cove Valley and Rocks and Trees . This Park contains a basalt dyke in the old, abandoned quarry face of sandstone. While it is more accessible than most, weed growth obscures the heavy weathering. It is [...]
Browns Field Walk, Wahroonga – Flora of a Diatreme
Entrance to Browns Field next to 97A Campbell Drive (opposite Boyne Place) Wahroonga (off Fox Valley Rd)Images: courtesy Conroy, R.J. Martyn J.E, Mitchell P.B., Robinson A.M. et al. (2022) The Natural and Cultural History of the Ku-ring-gai Geo-Region, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 144, 129-226. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LIN/article/view/17009 Leading off Campbell Drive a proposed geo-trail leads to accessible geo-sites around Browns Field, the cleared parkland in [...]
Talk by Dr Peter Mitchell OAM – The natural and cultural history of Ku-ring-gai & luncheon
The Roseville Club, 64 Pacific Highway, Roseville 64 Pacific Highway, Roseville, NSW, AustraliaPeter will describe the area (440 km2) and its most significant sites and the reasons for recognising Ku-ring-gai as a geo-region, a community project initiated by the Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment (FOKE). Peter’s talk wraps up the FOKE Ku-ring-gai Geo-region series, with a FOKE fund-raising luncheon that AABR is pleased to support. This series has [...]
Crowdy Bay NP bush regen camp
Kylies Beach Campground Kylies Beach Campground, Crowdy Bay National Park, NSW, AustraliaCrowdy National Park Bush Regen Camp Monday 8th to Tuesday 14th May An update from Tom Clarke Recently Sue Baker, Ranger Ben and myself systematically visited all the volunteer sites in Crowdy Bay NP and the great news is that everywhere is just going off and responding to our previous efforts like mad. “Nothing to [...]
Bushfire Conference 2023
NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre 23-33 Mary Street, Surry Hills, NSW, AustraliaVisit the website for all the glorious details.
Building Bridges to Boorowa: a weekend of tree-planting
Boorowra NSWHow does ecological restoration over a vast rural landscape work? AABR members are invited to join North Sydney Bushcare in the annual tree-planting weekend in Boorowa, south-west NSW. Boorowa Tree Planting Weekend – Friday 26 May to Sunday 28 May 2023. Now in its 24th year, “Building Bridges to Boorowa” is an award-winning urban-rural partnership [...]
Sheldon Forest Walk, Turramurra (NSW)
Image: Figure 26. Blackbutt dominant forest growing on Mittagong Formation with native indigo (Indigofera australis) in full flower, Sheldon Forest, Turramurra Courtesy:Conroy, R.J. Martyn J.E., Mitchell P.B., Robinson A.M. et al. (2022) The Natural and Cultural History of the Ku-ring-gai Geo-Region, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 144, 129-226. [...]
Korinderie Ridge Bush Regen Week
Korinderie Ridge community Woodburn, NswThe 20th Korinderie Bush Regen week will be held this year during the first week of August (Monday Aug 2-Friday Aug 6) . During the ‘regen week’, visitors join with residents to progressively remove lantana on the Korinderie Ridge private property adjacent to Bundjalung National Park on the NSW north coast. In exchange for their [...]
NSW Weeds Conference 2023
Dubbo Regional Convention Centre 155 Darling Street, Dubbo, NSWThe NSW Weeds Conference hosted by the Weed Society of NSW,will be held in Dubbo NSW and showcase the latest research and ideas for managing the establishment, impact and spread of weeds. The conference theme is weeds gone wild with the conference sub-themes being: Taming the Wild | Onground Weed Control Methods Searching the Wild [...]