Green Spider Flower (Alan Page)
Hut News
"Nature Conservation Saves for Tomorrow"
Hut News is the monthly newsletter of the Blue Mountains Conservation Society. You can see our large archive of past issues here.
Christine Davies is the Hut News Editor.
Contributions are very welcome. You can email Christine at hutnews@bluemountains.org.au.
The deadline for copy for each edition is the 12th of the preceding month. Please contact Christine to discuss any special arrangements that may be required.
March 2024 - Issue 422
The March 2024 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Dr. Ian Wright
In this edition you will find:
- The Society's Annual General Meeting - Wednesday 27 March
AGM Notice (page 6)
at the AGM
State of the Greater Blue Mountains Waterways with Dr. Ian Wright
- Native Plant Nursery - Sunday 10 March
- From the President (Annette Cam)
- Tribute to Les Coyne
- Increased Evidence for a Decline of Insects (Chris Whiteman)
- Intergenerational Transformations Series (Don Morison)
- Society's Western Sydney Airport EIS Submission
- Wild! A Greater Blue Mountains Alphabet
- Cumberland Land Conservancy - on your doorstep (Jo Carroll)
- Birds of the Blue Mountains: The Fantails (Annette Cam)
- Wildlife and People DO catch cat diseases (Meredith Brownhill)
- Logging threatens Greater Glider
- ‘Blue Mountains - NOT Another Suburb of Sydney’ … AGAIN !
- Port of Newcastle blockaded Paddlers protest lack of climate action (Anne A)
- A Valentine’s Day card for the Planet
- What to look for in March in the Blue Mountain (Adelina)
- and much more ...
February 2024 - Issue 421
The February 2024 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Agapanthus - off with their heads!
In this edition you will find:
- Sunset Gathering - Thursday 22 February
- Who Let The Cat Out? - Saturday 10 February
- Native Plant Nursery - Sunday 11 February
- From the President (Annette Cam)
- History of our Society
- The Blue Mountains Edible Garden Trail
- How did Agapanthus take over the Blue Mountains? (Christine Davies)
- Intergenerational Transformations Series (Don Morison)
- Grand Clifftop Walk (Christine Davies)
- Sassafras Creek, a good health story! (Peter Ardill)
- Yellow Robin (Paddy Cavanagh)
- Urunga Wetlands Walk (Heather Hull)
- Plant Study Group, visit to Mount Bindo
- Orchids of Central Western NSW book review (Judy & Peter Smith)
- Threatened closure of Burrendong Arboretum (Christine Davies)
- 25 years of bushwalking (Christine Davies)
- Environment, Better Trains and Housing (Don Morison)
- A stroll with my bro on the plateau (Alethea Morison)
- Wild image - Letter P - for colouring
- Wild image - Letter Q - for colouring
- and much more ...
December 2023 - Issue 420
The December 2023 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Meredith Brownhill mulga planting at Imperial Lake
In this edition you will find:
- Back to The Hut with a World Heritage Theme
- Do You Have a Cat?
- President's Report (Annette Cam)
- Federal funding for the eradication of fire ants
- Warragamba Dam plan officially scrapped
- Uses for existing plastic bags (Elizabeth van Reyswoud)
- Cuckoos of the Blue Mountains (Annette Cam)
- Googling “Galls” (Sue Nicol)
- Grand clifftop walk (Don Morison)
- Net Zero Future Bill (Nathalie Verellen)
- A visit to Muttonbird Island (Alethea Morison)
- Saving Kosci
- The Rare and Mythical Australian Painted Snipe (Chris Whiteman)
- Intergenerational Transformations Series (Don Morison)
- Activism Works: Part 3 (Susanne Rix)
- Blue Mountains stream health (Peter Ardill)
- Landcare Volunteering in Broken Hill (Meredith Brownhill)
- Wild image - Letter O - for colouring
- and much more ...
November 2023 - Issue 419
The November 2023 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Starlight Canyon (Thomas Ebersoll)
In this edition you will find:
- Starlight (Thomas Ebersoll)
- Bat Night 2023
- OUTBREAK: a new website for outbreaks of pests and diseases
- From Society President, Annette Cam
- NSW Invasive Species Management Review (Chris Whiteman)
- More ways to recycle (Elizabeth van Reyswoud)
- Blue Mountains stream health (Peter Ardill)
- Bifenthrin insecticide caused Hazelbrook Creek Crayfish kill (Chris Whiteman)
- Blue Mountains and Kanangra-Boyd National Park Draft Plan of Management (Annette Cam)
- Intergenerational Transformations Series (Don Morison)
- A lasting contribution to conservation: Beverley and Roy Thompson
- Birds of the Paroo Darling (Peery) NP (Annette Cam)
- Adani’s Coal Mine (Susanne Rix)
- Recycling The Meat Wharf (Christine Davies)
- Wild image - Letter N - for colouring
- and much more ...
October 2023 - Issue 418
The October 2023 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Feathertail Glider
In this edition you will find:
- Back to The Hut
- Mick Dark Talk for the Future
- Council votes for containment of domestic cats (Meredith Brownhill)
- Australia a Hotspot for Invasive Species (Chris Whiteman)
- a rescued Feathertail Glider
- Adani’s Coal Mine (Susanne Rix)
- Intergenerational Transformations (Don Morison)
- Grandma’s Knitting (Rosemary Lewis)
- Katoomba Street Sends Plastic Packing!
- Sprinter and Sprummer (Alan Page)
- Babblers of the Paroo Darling (Peery) NP (Annette Cam)
- Ecology: Sublime Point Reserve, Leura (book review by Alan Lane)
- Death of 1,000 Crayfish (Chris Whiteman)
- Some less common wattles (Sue Nicol)
- What Doctor Alan Lane says
- What does former President of our Society, Robin Mosman, say
- Wild image - Letter M - for colouring
- and much more ...
September 2023 - Issue 417
The September 2023 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.
Regent Honeyeater (Peter Smith)
In this edition you will find:
- Feral horse control in Kosciuszko National Park
- Stop Coal Seam Gas RALLY
- Native Plant Nursery reopens
- President's Report (Annette Cam)
- The Big Tree (Susanne Rix)
- We’re not all Darryl Kerrigans (Don Morison)
- More Regent Honeyeater News (Judy & Peter Smith)
- Govetts Leap Catchment Group
- Seeing Green (Alan Page)
- Chats of the Paroo Darling (Peery) NP (Annette Cam)
- The Reappearance of My Old ‘Paddymade’ Rucksack (Jim Low)
- Thought-provoking New Zealand 6 (Christine Davies)
- The wonder of the wattles! (Christine Davies)
- Wild image - Letter L - for colouring
- and much more ...
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