Saving and restoring WA's wheatbelt bushlands
Lewi Marr, Annie Leitch, Joe Porter and Ruby Albury recently visited the block with committee zoologist Andrew McCreery. The crew deployed motion cameras on active Malleefowl mounds, measured seedlings planted in 2023, and carried...
Carbon Positive have published their formal assessment of the first two years plantings. Here is a summary: 2023 Plantings in Southern Paddock Minimal variability between the average density of plots (min 520 live trees/ha,...
Sam and friends did a quick trip to the block and deployed our very own wildlife cameras, purchased with part of a generous Lotterywest funding grant to purchase a range of wildlife surveying and...
Sam, Andy and others made a start on creating lines of pitfall traps: digging and burying plastic drums with lids. These will be used towards the end of the year in conjunction with nets...
This winter marks the second year of planting our property. Dr Geoff Woodall prepared and direct-seeded a further 55 ha in the northern paddock, bringing the total planting area to approximately 115 ha. Over...
Geoff Woodall has been hard at work direct seeding and furrowing the northern half of our northern paddock as the first step for this year’s round of revegetation. From 10th to the 21st of...
Geologist Karl-Heinz Seelig from Qld visited the block in early May on behalf of Prof. Rowl Twidale (an Adelaide Uni based global granite authority) who having been shown photos, wanted a much more detailed...
Carbon Positive published their formal assessment of the 2023 plantings. Here is a summary:The overall average height was 0.24m and overall maximum tree height was 0.90m.Southern Paddock:The average stocking density was calculated to be...
Carbon Positive published their formal assessment of the 2023 plantings. Here is a summary: The overall average height was 0.24m and overall maximum tree height was 0.90m. Southern Paddock: The average stocking density was...
About 60 wildlife cameras were deployed across both our property and the adjacent nature reserve as part of a DBCA study to test the use of cat urine as a lure for camera traps....