http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/ PostNuke Powered Site en-au http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/images/KBAlogo.jpg http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/ billfilson@optushome.com.au http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7 The xmas party will be a ripper this year - you all have to come - Ok!! Tein MacDonald to be guest speaker at AGM o­n 26 November. http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6 The environmental levy was passed by Council on Tuesday 14 June, 2005. It will be used for maintenance type projects that improve the natural environment by bush regeneration in reserves and by water recycling for irrigation of sports fields. Although there was a debate about using some levy money to buy a heactare of Blue Gum High Forest that is still in private ownership in St Ives, the levy did not allocate funds for purcahsing ecologically important land. by Suzanne Little Chair, Ku-ring-gai Bushcare Association http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4 Here is a web link to a story on the molecule in smoke that promotes seed germination in many plants. It is a transcript from the ABC television show, Catalyst. Also it has lots of other links to good information on smoke/smoked water treatment. This link was originally posted in the "Bush regeneration" and "Envirotalk" forum by Steven Sheldon in Oct 2004. ABC Catalyst - Smoke Growth Bushfire: It can shred our lush bushland apart, turning it into a black and smouldering wasteland. But without it many of our native plants can’t germinate and grow. For years, botanists and plant lovers the world over have tried - and failed - to uncover bushfire’s life-giving secret. But now, after years of research and a long process of elimination, the bush has finally given up its smoky secret – how Australian plants rise from the ashes... for more see: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1219989.htm#transcript http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3 by Marg Booth Kingsford Ave Bushcare site is situated on a severe fire frontage on the western edge of Lane Cove Valley. We have a very effective CFU and have weathered several major firefronts over the 35 years we have been here. The joy of being on the edge of lovely bushland is the variety of natural visitors to our native gardens. A couple of days ago a brown Goshawk perched on my roof, eyeing me with annoyance as I had interrupted his meal of some little grey bird, which I fear was a thrush. Can't we train them to eat Indian Mynahs !!! We are attempting to help start a Bushcare group in neighbouring Ulm Ave but this is proving hard. We need their end of the street under control because it is upstream of a swamp, which we have got semi-tamed now with a great divesity of living treasures. Council has let us down with no blackberry spraying or mowing - but I live in hope. http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2 I found a good place to buy aquariums etc - St George Aquariums http://filsonplace.com/bushcare/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1 A new poll has been set up on this site for bushcarers to vote on the most 'bushland friendly' nurseries in Ku-ring-gai. ie Those nurseries who sell plants which do not escape into our bushland and cause weed infestation. Hopefully this poll will gain some publicity and provide some peer/market pressure on the offending nurseries to behave and to not sell bushland unfriendly plants