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 November 2025 edition of Hut News is now available for downloading.

“Snow Gums” by Vicki Jackett (Photo by the artist)

• Planning reforms risk the environment (Land Use Subcommittee)
• Blue Gum100 Project - Celebrating People and our World Heritage (Wyn Jones)
• Grounded - An art exhibition that brings a fresh view of our environment (Christine Stickley)
• New areas and values being assessed for inclusion in World Heritage Area (Annette Cam)
• Have your say: BMCC draft Weed Management Strategy 2025-2030! (BMCS Bushcare Officer)
• Gardening with Natives in the Blue Mountains: Sunday 9 November, 10am to 4pm - Mid Mountains Community Centre, 7 New Street, Lawson.
• Inappropriate Development for the Blue Mountains
• Spring in a Wildlife Refuge - "Allendale", above Popes Glen, Blackheath (Eva Johnstone)
• and much more ...

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

The Blue Gum Forest - Photo by Wyn Jones, 2 September 2025

• Spring-summer environmental weeds campaign 2025-26 (Peter Ardill BMCS Bushcare Officer)
• Gardening with Natives in the Blue Mountains: Sunday 9 November, 10am to 4pm - Mid Mountains Community Centre, 7 New Street, Lawson.
• A Winter trip to the Darling/ Baaka River (Meredith Brownhill)
• The Golden Wattle (Christine Davies)
• Environmental weeds and their impacts (BMCS Bushcare Officer)
• Butterflies to the Garden (Roberta Johnston)
• Have You Seen This Rare Flower? (Liam Ramage Threatened Species Officer)
• Wildlife Real Estate: Creating habitat at Mt Tomah (Elizabeth Howard)
• and much more ...

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 ...