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WELL, HERE we all are at the start of another year (as our calendars tell us) and I’d like to say congratulations to everybody out there doing their bit to restore habitat and ecological connections, on the Hinterland, on the Sunshine Coast and throughout South East Queensland.

AFTER MORE than two decades of walking through the Rainforests of the Blackall Range it’s still possible for me to come across a plant I haven’t seen before, which is such a buzz! On a bushwalk recently I was lucky enough to see two plants I hadn’t seen before, Hairy

YOU CAN plant without tree guards but when it comes to revegetation and planting large areas they can be a valuable aid in protecting the time and money you have invested. Tree guards protect your trees from several threats including weeds (why can’t our trees grow as fast!), We

LAST Saturday, Karen and I went for a walk in a great patch of rainforest at Flaxton. The amazing thing about this rainforest is that most of it was planted or regenerated over the last 5-15 years!Surprisingly, this isn’t a national park or undertaken by a large organisation or

Gum Trees (Eucalypt spp.) are the iconic Australian tree. Hum trees occur in almost all Australian ecosystems from deserts, to the edge of Rainforests, from beach sides to mountain tops, from the tropics to the Australian Alps. Gum Trees literally frame the Australian character. There

It’s that time of year when the thermometer takes a dive and the cool winds the Blackall Range is famous(or infamous) for can howl across the hinterland. In spite of, or perhaps because of this, I reckon now is the best time of year for getting stuck into the weeds any weed cont

In late 2010 a highly contagious, debilitating and potentially deadly disease spread rapidly across the Blackall Range. Now that I’ve got your attention… and just to reassure you – this is a plant disease. The disease is known as Myrtle Rust (Uredo rangelii) and its

ONE OF THE services we provide to local councils is the assessment of native bushland parks for their “resilience”. That is the bushland’s ability to recover from disturbance and to regenerate itself (basically provide a safe home for the next generation of flora, fa

The recent floods have had a massive impact on the people of South East Queensland. The flooding along the mighty Brisbane, Lockyer and Mary Rivers, has had a huge impact on those communities within the flood zone. There has been widespread loss of infrastructure, homes, crops and sad

SUCCESSIONAL WEED MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION PAPER, By Spencer Shaw, Brush Turkey Enterprises, August 2010. “We must remember that good bush regeneration is not weed control, but that it is the restoration of native ecosystem function. This may seem like semantics and somewhat philosophica