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Windabout Reserve

JUST like compounding interest bush regeneration gets increasing returns over time. This is apparent in Windabout Reserve where Beechmont Landcare held its first working bee for the year.   Originally overgrown with Privet trees, over the […]

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Reserves

TO OUR delight the reserves have pulled through Cyclone Albert pretty well.   Some trees came down, branches snapped and there were lots of shredded leaves.  All of this will decompose over time feeding the soil for […]

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Bush regeneration

Just like compounding interest bush regeneration gets increasing returns over time. This is apparent in Windabout Reserve where Beechmont Landcare held its first working bee for the year.   Originally overgrown with Privet trees, over the […]

Cane Toad Bust
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Cane Toad Bust

ON the last Wednesday night of the school holidays on January 23, Beechmont Landcare participated in the Watergum annual Cane Toad Bust at Beechmont Pioneer Reserve. Watergum is a not-for-profit environmental organisation based on the […]

Tobacco weed
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Windabout Reserve

Windabout Reserve is a small parcel of land partially bordered by Windabout Road and Ascot Court. The reserve is dominated by privet (Ligustrum lucidum) and it is a good example of an area that has […]

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What will Spring bring?

It’s that time of year when we contemplate what sort of spring we are expecting.   While the weather is cool we don’t have to worry too much about the dry conditions but once it heats […]

large Chinese Elm near Beechmont Pioneer Reserve
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Chinese Elm

An increasingly common weed in Beechmont is the large spreading tree Chinese Elm (Celtis sinensis). Chinese Elm is a significant environmental weed in Queensland.   It likes clay soil associated with alluvial floodplains, creeks and gullies.  One […]

Back Creek
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Back Creek

Back Creek crosses the Beechmont plateau before cascading down through Killarney Glen to join the Coomera River just outside Canungra. The adjoining photo shows Back Creek flowing through lush forest.  It  was recently taken at Akoonah Timbarra […]

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Beechmont Landcare

For many years now a band of Landcare members, made up of a core of regular participants, have met on the first Monday morning of the month for a working bee.   We usually meet at […]