NGT Out and about – Photos from the field in July
These photos were taken at NGT reserve Mount Vandyke. Rosemary & Andy are conducting weed control throughout the felled bluegum stumps (first photo), and all over the mount...
These photos were taken at NGT reserve Mount Vandyke. Rosemary & Andy are conducting weed control throughout the felled bluegum stumps (first photo), and all over the mount...
Bryan has shared some field photos from two South Australian NGT reserves: Mt Burr Swamp and Eaglehawk Waterhole. At Mt Burr Swamp Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation staff have been undertaking some burning training in our Blue gum block earlier in September. Rosemary and Bryan also recently found...
ABC Radio recently visited Long Point & interviewed Bill Weatherly, as he has worked out where Nicholas Chevalier and Eugene von Guerard sat to paint their well-known paintings of Mt Abrupt and the Grampians ranges. Bill is actively involved with NGT and the Friends of the Forgotten Woodlands.Please...
NGT senior ecologist Jono took these beautiful snaps during a recent visit to Tasmania, where he was assisting with the restoration works at Sloping Main. What a spectacular place! NGT's Mildura-based ecologists Scott Huntley and Taylar Pay have recently been doing some fish monitoring in the...
It's been a busy spring so far, with lots of activity underway, including lots of planting!- At Mt Burr Swamp we've had some nursery vollies planting out Gahnia clarkei at Mt Burr Swamp to sustain local rare butterflies while we are re-establishing riparian zone vegetation...
We've had many wonderful visitors to our reserves and out and about lately: Firstly (below top left), a group from Hamilton Field Naturalists Club and our SW volunteer group out at Walker Swamp for tree planting, but it was too wet & windy! NGT's Ayesha...
Scott from NGT met up with local TAFE students studying conservation and ecosystem management to learn how to use fyke and seine nets to survey threatened small-bodied fish at the Ornamental Lake in Mildura. We detected Southern Purple-spotted Gudgeons in both seine net hauls and...
NGT's Tassie team Bec and Justine have been out and about at Long Point, Tasmania doing some water level monitoring in the saltmarsh. They saw some beautiful regenerating samphires (Salicornia species) - aren't the colours spectacular, and it sure looks muddy! Meet Vicki, who is in...
For those of you who have been following NGT since the early days, you will notice that our website still very much looks the way it used to, right back at the beginning! Truth be told, we've been so busy getting on with our important...
Flame Sedge-skipper Southern Boobook Owl chick Brolgas at Mt Burr Swamp Swamp Daisy-bush (Olearia glandulosa) Swamp Mazus (Mazus pumilio) Southern Grass-dart Bryan snapped some cool critters and rare plants whilst out and about this month: The first two were during surveys of vegetation (The Claypans) inside a OneFortyOne forestry site, where he...