Enjoy a sumptuous breakfast and presentations on Butterflies and the Plight of Pollinators by two wonderful speakers, Deb Metters (Coordinator, Land for Wildlife South East Queensland) and Peggy Esby (Planting for Pollinators). Only $12.50 per person, children free. Arrive from 7:30am at Stockyard Creek Community Hall, Stockyard. Bookings essential RSVP by 8th June to info@lockyeruplandscatchmentsinc.org.au
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Native Grasses Workshop #2 With Dr Darren Fielder (Redleaf Environmental)
Sunday 23rd May, Ma Ma Creek Community Hall. With Darren’s guidance, you can help identify native grass species from dozens of grass samples collected since Workshop #1. Contribute to the development of a LUCI native grass herbarium and a field ID booklet. If you have a magnifying device, bring it along. Morning tea provided. RSVPContinue reading
Postponed again…weeding @ Dwyers on 8th April
Due to recent rain and park conditions, we will have to postpone our 8th April weeding until further notice. Don’t forget to check back again!
Friends of Dwyers Scrub Weeding rescheduled to 8th April.
Our first Thursday of the month morning weeding session has been rescheduled to 8th April. If you are interested in helping restore the health of this park, join us. Contact info@lockyeruplandscatchmentsinc.org.au
Brown Goshawk or Collared Sparrowhawk
Want to learn how to use GOOGLE EARTH GIS?
Check out Martin Bennett’s Beginners Guide to GOOGLE EARTH GIS (look under the online mapping tools section). Follow these introductory easy steps to using a powerful mapping tool to display your property attributes or attributes in your local landscape or any number of other map display purposes.
Butterfly stories
Read about the fascinating and intricate interactions between butterflies and plants in LUCI’s Quarterly Update Newsletter No 23
More native grasses than we imagined
Thirty people attended LUCI’ Native Grasses of the Lockyer workshop on Sunday 20th September at Ma Ma Creek Hall with Dr Darren Fielder of Red Leaf Environmental. We learned there are 12,000 species of grasses in the world, 929 taxa in Queensland including 208 exotic species and 407 species in the Moreton Region. Darren explainedContinue reading
Wildlife Bushfire Toll
A tough read but a must read…the WWF’s interim report on Australia’s 2019-2020 Bushfires: The Wildlife Toll. More than ever Australia’s native animals need us to provide improved, restored and connected native habitats. Be part of the solution…join LUCI!