Kooragang Wetlands in Hexham, New South Wales, Australia | Environmental service

Kooragang Wetlands

Locality: Hexham, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 490 128 640

Address: Millams Rd 2322 Hexham, NSW, Australia

Website: https://kooragangwetlands.com/contact

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25.01.2022 Friends has a grant through the Communities Environment Program which has almost run it's course. Clean Up Ash Island will go on past the end of the grant as Ash Island needs plenty of lovin' care to keep it beautiful for all of us. Do come on the second Wednesday of the month every month (except January when we all need a breather from the heat) and take a leisurely walk on the not very wild side wearing gorgeous orange hivis and carrying a nifty grabber picker upper and a bag to put stuff in.

24.01.2022 Planting Day on Ash Island July 19th 9.30 to 1.pm

24.01.2022 Barry Maitland, Author and Painter, painted landscapes on Ash Island. Mangroves to the left and the corner of JHexham Island in the South Channel as we see it when we cross the Ash Island Bridge.

24.01.2022 Looking for FRances O'Brien so I can send her the book she wanted. Went to the address she gave to hand deliver it as it was close to my place - business premises and the number above the door answers many suburbs away

23.01.2022 Riff after Riff after Riff.

23.01.2022 The Friends Arboretum began with woodchip paths. They were initially visible but rapidly became a set of unused untrodden weed attractors. Thanks to Orica and t...he grant they gave us to renew them we have proper paths. Inviting, a beacon, an invitation to walk past the saltmarsh, linger near the trees, and notice changes over the seasons and the plants as they grow from small tubestock into head height and over canopies. Some trees have beautiful portrait labels. Some will have labels made by J..... who is rejuvenating labels from the former Community Garden with lots of elbow grease and a steady lettering hand. Come and amble through thevtrees as you walk, stroll and run along the many paths and tracks on Ash Island. Thabks to Tim Sabo and his mste who did the hard yakka. See more

23.01.2022 The beautiful little critters ar often overlooked - our human emotions drag us to the large and particularly animals with wide baby-like faces and big eyes.

23.01.2022 Did you know that the Native Hibiscus was chosen by members of the Kimberley Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation, and later endorsed by the National Sorry ...Day Committee, to symbolise the scattering of the Stolen Generations and their resilience to the eugenic policies of Australia? This flower was adopted because it is found widely across Australia and it is a survivor. Its colour denotes compassion and spiritual healing. The Flower symbolises solidarity, people’s unity, strength and understanding. We have 20 Native Hibiscus plants to give away for planting as a remembrance in your garden. Please email [email protected] See more

22.01.2022 https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au//schoolmasters-house

21.01.2022 https://omny.fm//newcastle/barry-maitland-sfx-and-mixdown

21.01.2022 Congratulations to Vera Deacon who has been awarded a Medal (OAM) in the General Division today for her tireless work in community history and environmental con...servation. Vera has been a dedicated member of our society for many years and is behind many of our successful projects. Thank you Vera! Sharon Claydon MP Lost Newcastle Stockton Community Stockton Community Tim Crakanthorp MP Nuatali Nelmes - Lord Mayor of Newcastle NBN Television See more

20.01.2022 Friends has a set of 20 and will be doing some Sticky Beak science this year to complement forthcoming Clean Up Ash Island events. Sampling the mud and water in the tidal zone of the mangroves which will be swept for litter and junk - you never know what tiny critters we will find.

19.01.2022 Get out of the house and into Nature. Do both of yourselves a favour

18.01.2022 Tools that make work easier for older creakier volunteers

18.01.2022 Ash Island Planting Day is on this Sunday 15 August 9.30-12.30pm. Forecast is for some showers so please make sure you have wet weather gear. Gumboots are reco...mmended. The plants will love it! Holes are pre dug so planting is easy peasy and the company is great. Meet 9.30am at Planting Site (not at Shed or House). Map attached, people and signs will point you on your way to turn onto paddock before Riverside Park. Toilets available. Call Alissa 0400 995 360 if you're lost. Morning tea provided at planting site. Covid care means the snackies are prepacked, yummy and we have fruit which must be peeled, plus varieties of muffin. Also coming up - Clean n' Cruise Sat 5 Sept 2020 8.45am-12pm. Meet Old Punt Rd Tomago (not at Shed). Map attached. On-going removal of tidal rubbish from mangrove flats in the Hunter Estuary.

18.01.2022 HI Planters Due to weather, this Sunday will be cancelled. Lovely weather for water birds and other animals that float but not ideal for planting. I can carry y...our registration over for April if you reply YES to this email. I look forward to seeing you all next month 18 April 2021 Cheers Alissa Rogers| Land Services Officer (Volunteer Program) Local Land Services Hunter Private Bag 2010 | Paterson NSW 2421 M: 0400 995 360 E: [email protected] W: www.lls.nsw.gov.au/hunter

18.01.2022 Around Ash Island today for our Clean Up Ash Island grant activities.The small polluters - cigarette butts, rubber fragments, broken plastic objects and similar are what we target, but we get big ones too like a deflated blowup mattress and bike wheels.

17.01.2022 http://anpsa.org.au/APOL2007/sep07-s1.html

17.01.2022 An invitation from Alissa Rogers - Hunter LLS "Join me for collection of litter in the tidal flats by boat on a Wednesday or Saturday: 1. Clean n' Cruise Wed 2...2 July 2020 9.30-12pm. Meet at Local Land Services shed on Schoolhouse, Kooragang. 2. Clean n' Cruise Sat 25 July 2020 9.30-12pm. Meet at end of Old Punt Rd Tomago. Please rsvp for catering for all events. Thank you. Your efforts are always appreciated. Alissa Rogers| Land Services Officer (Volunteer Program) Local Land Services Hunter Private Bag 2010 | Paterson NSW 2421 M: 0400 995 360 E: [email protected]

17.01.2022 The Friends of The Schoolmasters House has funds from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources for a grant named Cleaning Up Ash Island. The a...im is to get rid of polluting rubbish from the fringing mangroves and the saltmarsh edge. Events inviting community participants will appear during the next six months. Meanwhile - we've started by volunteers from the Friends doing a weekly rubbish run along the roads and carparks next to the mangroves to collect any litter. NPWS does a collection during the week and Friends does another - a collaborative project continuing decades of care for Ash Island and combating rubbish dumping. See more

17.01.2022 Third Sunday of the Month Planting day on Ash Island. Not quite as mushy sloshy as last month but still a "keep the revs up, stay in low gear, don't clutch the wheel" drive in to the parking spot. 15 planters did 400 plants. Helps when the holes are pre-dug and even the stakes are in place. The swan family enjoyed a big day out too. Morning tea was delicious.

16.01.2022 https://go.nextdoor.com/heartoftheneighbourhood

16.01.2022 WA is about to become the new leader in Australia's fight against killer ocean plastic! We congratulate Stephen Dawson MLC and the McGowan Government on their a...mbitious plan to ban single-use plastics and save our ocean wildlife. In the first stage (2020 to 2023), the state will ban plastic plates, cutlery, stirrers, straws, thick plastic bags, polystyrene food containers, and helium balloon releases. In the second stage (2024-2026), the state will ban single-use plastic barrier/produce bags, microbeads, polystyrene packaging, cotton buds with plastic shafts and oxo-degradable plastics. Yet plastic pollution is increasing at an alarming rate. Every day we wait more dolphins, whales and seabirds are dying. We urge the government not to wait - bring in a ban in 2021 and help us save more animal lives.

14.01.2022 www.ashisland.org.au

13.01.2022 This not a zoom or online format, this is real time real life with covid19 safety strategies in place

13.01.2022 The reintroduced greater bilbies have been enjoying some more rain here at Wild Deserts. We were lucky to receive another 44 mm last week! Check out this preserved set of bilby tracks running across one of the wet roads in our exclosures in Sturt National Park.

12.01.2022 What has making a wicking bed in your home garden got to do with Clean Up Ash Island??? Simple yet not. Keeping one more piece of polystyrene out of the pollution and rubbish stream means one less piece that could muck up fish and prawn nursery habitat among the mangroves and saltmarsh on Ash Island

12.01.2022 https://australian.museum//m/scholarship-winner-announced/

12.01.2022 How to use a place you know in your writing Barry has replied to a query I made with two attachments - beautiful paintings of our "broad and shining river" .

11.01.2022 If you can't decide if it's a weed or not, this is a good visual checklist I just discovered. Helped me ID moth vine.

11.01.2022 Hunter LLS planting Day on Ash Island is on this Sunday Here's the notice from Alissa Greetings Tree Planters Planting is on again this Sunday 18 Oct 9.30am-12.30pm. Meet in the paddock (see attached map). Snacks provided. Long pants and sleeves, sunhat and sunglasses, water bottle and sturdy boots essential.... Please register via this new online 2-part process. Fill out this https://hunterlls.wufoo.com//tree-planting-city-ash-islan/ 2. Complete this COVID checklist as well https://hunterlls.wufoo.com//lls-covid-safety-check-clean/ Thank you for your understanding with these new processes. Look forward to seeing you then! Check out more exciting events for your calendar below. Alissa 0400 995 360

11.01.2022 https://www.ala.org.au/about-ala/. Citzen Science through the Australian Museum https://australianmuseum.net.au/search/ and the wonders of the microworld using... our Foldscopes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRCceGCGus Volunteers can be involved in all of the above, extend their minds , discover new interests or create a new project of their own. See more

11.01.2022 Kooragang Wetlands Marine Debri Cleanup Day on Sat. 13th June was a bumper haul of rubbish. i'm not sure of the tonnage. Debri included 2 large hot water heaters, 2 car wheeels with tyres attached, at least 2 car tyres and tubes, plywood and fibreglass from a boat, heaps of plastic and glass bottles, rope, thongs, drink cans, plastic food wrappers, 1 attractive looking fashion boot whichAllisa found and spent the rest of the day searching for it's mate.Yes, thongs lots of other stuff to numerous to mention, mostly glass and plastic. cheers to all and hope to see you in the paddock next planting day Sun 21 June FOTSH

10.01.2022 The Scoop Gardening Responsibly, A New Weed Alert, The Choccie Lilly & More - https://mailchi.mp//saw-farmforce-shorebirds-biomes-4482266

10.01.2022 Schoolmasters has 20 foldscopes and a Teachers Kit - You Tube has many videos about how to use them

10.01.2022 Watch this all the way through but particularly at around the 14 minute mark. Our beloved Vera Deacon OAM receiving her medal from Governor Margaret Beazley. https://livestream.com//investitureceremo/videos/214260448

08.01.2022 Photos of some of the remnants of Milham's farm on Ash Island, Saturday 19/12/20. It was one of up to 17 dairy farms once on the island, now all long gone. Milh...am's farm was established circa mid 19th century. It was rendered useless for farming by the 1955 Hunter River flood and subsequently sold to the NSW State Government. The farmhouse was deliberately partly demolished in the 1970's to deter squatters. [My photos.] See more

08.01.2022 Our clever IT expert has fixed the link to Get Tickets on the www.kooragang wetlands.com

07.01.2022 The migratory birds have gone north and local bird numbers are quiet. Heard a Bar shouldered Dove calling on Ash Island https://australianmuseum.net.au//birds/bar-shouldered-dove/ Mangroves are included in their habitat preferences - plenty of them for this lovely bird.

07.01.2022 In Kununurra, WA We believe it is a Black Neck Stork but there is some conversation around this! It was just sitting on the jetty, we think a local resident.

05.01.2022 Follow the signs and the cars to the planting place

05.01.2022 It's been a great year for the desert Trilling frogs (Neobatrachus sudellae). They can spend many years buried deep underground waiting for rain - but not in 20...20! Multiple rainfall events this year have allowed them to emerge from their burrows and successfully breed. Check out these three stages of juvenile development found by our staff in one of our wetlands this week. A large tadpole starting to grow legs, a froglet still with a tail, and a slightly more developed froglet that has almost lost its tail bud. It looks like a new generation of frogs are on their way. These seasonal conditions are really important for ensuring these frog populations persist into the future.

05.01.2022 December 9th was our break up morning tea. This year, including the months in Covid lockdown, the volunteers racked up 3300 plus hours of cleaning, planting. weeding, scanning images, oral history recording, website building, gardening, shed building, looking after the library, watching over resident wildlife, looking after visitors, and more. At the government nominated $39/hour worth the volunteers have contributed over $130000 of community service.

05.01.2022 Have to say a very big Thank You to Eclipse Tree Services for bringing The Friends of The Schoolmasters a HUGE pile of much needed wood chip. Battling weeds is ...a constant task and Friends are using all the methods they can - hand removal, spraying with roundup alternatives, mowing and whipper snipping before flowers set seed, and we are going to try the chop/ sugar/ mulch / native grass seed method to see if that slows weed growth. We are also keen to get local native grasses replacing weeds . The microlaena patch, near the Schoolmasters House itself, is developing beautifully https://www.miragenews.com/council-spreads-some-sugar-each/ https://www.publish.csiro.au/rj/rj17029 See more

04.01.2022 Simple idea, stunning result: the world's watersheds in glorious colors.

03.01.2022 Sign the petition! This ridiculous proposal for coal exploration in the historic village of Wollombi must be stopped.

03.01.2022 https://www.holovachov.com/fluorescence How birds and Butterflies see flowers and insects.

03.01.2022 Some work is too heavy for human muscle , horse power plus gets the job done. Removed, relocated grasses which have grown thick and thatchy. They made great habitat for small critters but the lower growing grass which will replace the Blady Grass - https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl - is also good a scurry patch. The Lomandra clumps are in use by lizards and frogs - heard the skreeeeKIT sound of Litoria fallax -- listen here on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUE8KVIrJdo

03.01.2022 https://juniorlandcare.org.au//investigating-the-soil-fo/ It's that time of the year when we want to get out and DO stuff. Here's one suggestion - more to come.

02.01.2022 https://juniorlandcare.org.au//creating-a-frog-friendly-/ More for kids to do

01.01.2022 Zoom and similar internet platfroms are wonderfully useful. Couldn't physically get to an event like this but Oh Boy I can step ongto a virtual Magic Carpet to takes me there in a flash. Join in - it's money free and knowledge rich.