Green Spider Flower  (Alan Page)

Hut News is the monthly newsletter of the Blue Mountains Conservation Society.

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.

The three latest issues are below - to see previous editions please visit the archives page here

The September 2025 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.

Looking west on the Lockleys Pylon trail near Leura (Marian Haire)

• Biodiversity Discovery Day
• The saving of Blue Gum Forest 1932 - 2025 (Wyn Jones & Andy Macqueen)
• The sorry tale of mammal extinctions in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area and some recent good news (Judy Smith and Peter Smith)
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum until 19 October 2025
• Citizen Science: Recording Bats in Your Backyard (Dr Joanna Haddock, Senior Threatened Species Officer, Saving our Species Program, NSW Government)
• CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Blue Mountains – Still not another suburb of Sydney - HDA and what this means for the mountains (Land Use Subcommittee)
• Calls to halt Blue Mountains coal destruction
• Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) responds to our warmer, wetter conditions. (Christine Stickley)
• Council has released the 2025 Blue Mountains Waterways Health Snapshot: how did your local stream score? (Peter Ardill, BMCS Bushcare Officer )
• and much more ...

The August 2025 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.

Braeside Creek falls into the Grose Valley (Christine Davies)

• Rise Against Coal: Sydney's Crisis - Blue Mountains Community Action
• Celebrating National Science Week, 9-17 August 2025
• Walking World Heritage (The Hut News Team, with the assistance of the Thursday Interpretive Nature Group and Peter Green)
• Western Sydney International Airport Master Plan (Jo Carroll)
• Wildlife Real Estate - Follow up event (Elizabeth Howard)
• Exploring conservation myths: is bushcare all about weeding? (Peter Ardill, BMCS Bushcare Officer)
• Biosecurity concerns (Christine Davies)
• The Three Sugarloafs - A Reserve in the Making (Wyn Jones, Ecologist and Wild Guide)
• Environmental weeds and their impacts (BMCS Bushcare Officer )
• and much more ...

The July 2025 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.

Sunshine Wattle (Acacia terminalis), Blackheath, July 2023 (C.Davies)

• Ice Age shelter in the Blue Mountains (Annelies Ammann, Dargan)
• Oh Dear ... Deer in the BM World Heritage Area! (Jo Carroll, Events Coordinator)
• Ongoing environmental advocacy by your Society (BMCS Bushcare Officer)
• Rights of Nature Laws (Annette Sartor (Senior VP and Education Officer) and Lynn Daniel (Assistant Principal and High School Coordinator, Kindlehill School))
• The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area — at a Crossroad (Joel Dalberger, CEO of Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, in conversation with Annette Cam, President)
• Western Sydney Airport (Annette Cam, President of BMCS)
• Do you want to learn how to make a bird friendly garden for our feathered friends? (Elizabeth Howard, Treasurer)
• TING walk in Lawson (Christine Davies, Hut News editor)
• Pampas Grass an emerging threat? (BMCS Bushcare Officer )
• and much more ...