Alison Pouliot is an ecologist, writer and photographer who specialises in fungi. She led a touch, sight and smell fungi learning experience at a Biodiversity Conservation Trust and YAN funded workshop near Murrumbateman on 15 May.

Alison displayed a comprehensive range of fungi which was collected from this region especially for the workshop. (All fresh fungi was disposed of at the

The Yass Landcare community nursery has a new addition to its growing power - a hot house. So in the future plants can be grown over our colder months.  The whole structure was put together by the Wilson team Kate and Jeremy.  

There is an Australia wide shortage of weld mesh this year due to the Australian and world wide events that we are all aware of - so Jeremy Wilson sent the following email to our weldmesh supplier to explain why we have an urgent need for this vital component of the 2022 Paddock Tree project. 

“We talked about our need for this mesh and I wonder if it will help if your supplier

Nan and Mary-Jane Betts are the 2022 recipients of the John Betts Award. Nan was John’s wife and Mary-Jane John Betts daughter. These determined women have been working tirelessly since John Betts death in to regenerate the native grasslands and landscape on their Cowridge property on Black Range Road. 

Nan and Mary-Jane are currently working to have the Derringullen Creek