Building ecological knowledge

Water sampling

  Paula Deegan water sampling at Chereninup Creek. Photo Amanda Keesing Paula Deegan sampling a pool in Chereninup Creek Reserve. Creeks are an important target in the Fitz Stirling Functional…

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Invertebrate monitoring at Chereninup

The shearers gave Curtin University student Tommy Cheng a go at shearing. Photo Amanda Keesing We are starting to get a better handle on what a number of key invertebrate species are doing in the…

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How healthy are those creeks?

Pool sampling – Photo by Amanda Keesing Healthy creeks and waterways have been identified as a key target for ecological repair work in the Link’s Fitz-Stirling area. Little is known about the…

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An Elder of the Sciences meets an Elder of the Eucalypts.

Professor Henry Nix and wife Katherine Nix on scientific field trip – Alexander Watson. The Wild Country Science team is currently on survey work in the magnificent woodlands east of the…

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More fungi

Building ecological knowledge

Fungi richness

A few good rains gets the fungi going, and mycologist Katie Syme. Katie has recently completed a fungi and truffle hunt on Bush Heritage’s Chereninup Creek Reserve. Here is a selection of the…

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How much carbon do our trees hold?

Carbon sampling work. Photo Barry Heydenrych More destructive carbon sampling work underway this week to determine how much carbon is being sequestered by existing native vegetation. Data is being…

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There’s carbon in them there trees?

Sampling to measure carbon in plants. Photo courtesy Barry Heydenrych. We know that every planting program produces trees and shrubs that sequester carbon, but we don’t know how much carbon. If we…

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Fauna survey of Honman Ridge

The Wilderness Society fauna survey in the Great Western Woodlands, Nov 2005. Photo courtesy The Wilderness Society WA. Black-naped snake with Charles Roche during the fauna survey for Honman Ridge….