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  1. Latest drought report identifies low streamflow concerns for southeast Vancouver Island : My Campbell River Now

    The B.C. government has released its latest Drought and Water Scarcity Bulletin, with data up to Sept. 10.…
    #Canada #Vancouver #BCGovernment #Drought #SunshineCoast #VancouverIsland #WaterScarcity #Weather
    europesays.com/canada/204797/

  2. Latest drought report identifies low streamflow concerns for southeast Vancouver Island : My Powell River Now

    The B.C. government has released its latest Drought and Water Scarcity Bulletin, with data up to Sept. 10.…
    #Canada #Vancouver #BCGovernment #Drought #SunshineCoast #VancouverIsland #WaterScarcity #Weather
    europesays.com/canada/204501/

  3. Please consider becoming a member!

    The #CoastalISC is a #nonprofit organization composed of local citizens, representatives from First Nations, governments, utilities, natural resource industries, academia and conservation groups, and others who share a common concern about the impacts of invasive alien plants in #CoastalBC. The Coastal ISC serves the geographic area of #VancouverIsland, the #GulfIslands, and the #SunshineCoast.

    coastalisc.com/become-a-member

    #Naturalists #NatureGuardians #BCInvasivePlants #conservation #stewardship #Environmentalists #EarthFirst #ProtectNativeSpecies #BritishColumbia #Canadian #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW

  4. The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
    A Glen Turner Déjà vu

    “We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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    theguardian.com/environment/20

    The environmental officer Glen Turner
    was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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    residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/t
    #conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW

  5. Taking a wander along a local creek, looking for Madeira Vine.

    Will farmers ever do anything about land management if it is not profitable? While they are losing a fraction of their land, it's far cheaper for them to just ignore runaway erosion. This will not fix itself.

    #bushregeneration #landcare #qld #sunshinecoast #australia #erosion #vetiver

  6. From mown grass paddock, to planted rows, to raging torrent of water and a loss of plants, to a beginning of a canopy after 1.5 years.

    *Commersonia bartramia* feature as the main pioneer in this riparian revegetation site which will be used as managed shade and biomass for the mixed species planting they protect underneath them. Eventually some of the species will be thinned leaving the best performers at a spacing that suits the final goal of complete canopy cover and wild understory which is common of subtropical vegetation in this location.

    As the site matures, shade-loving species will be added as I can propagate them. Plus more Lomandra, you can never have enough.

    *You can never, repeat never, plant lomandras too thickly!" - 'Save Our Waterways Now' Planting Guide*

    *"Lomandra spp. Matrushes, critically important stabilisers, impossible to overplant" - 'The Creek in our backyard' by Robert Whyte*

    #bushregeneration #Revegetation #reforestation #landcare #sunshinecoast #subtropics #rewilding #queensland #gardeningau