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Newsletters.

The River Conservation Society’s newsletters are published twice a year. We love to hear from our members and and supporters, please send us your photos and reports for our next edition.

 

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Newsletters
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Newsletter No. 62

November 2025
Spring

Matriarchs of the Wheatbelt
Spray Free Spring
Bushfire Resilience
Planting for their Future
Wildflower Journeys
Gwambygine Revegetation
Trinity Church Revegetation
Phascogales in Shire of York
Rakali in the Wheatbelt
Beverley Rivercare
Dangers of Rat Poisons
Helen Green Life Member
Tribute to Eric Ayling
Seed Orchard Shed
York's Eremophila
Mt Mackie Project
Polyphagous shot-hole borer
Tidy Towns & C for C

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Newsletter No. 61

June 2025
Winter

Cowering Well Conservation Reserve
Gogulyar Bilya—a Living River
Is the Malleefowl alive & well in the Wheatbelt?
The Brown Goshawk
Rakali, Riparian & River Health Project
Monitoring Nest Boxes
Infinity Bird Bath
Honor Venning
Environmental Centre Native Garden
York Wildflower Society - a year of achievement
York Regional Writers’ Weekend
Eucalyptus Climate Warriors - Malcolm French
Wheatbelt NRM eDNA workshops
‘Cockatubes’?
Opening of Gogulyar Bilya Information Space
Main Roads Revegetation Policy
Mistletoe
Black Cockatoo Nestbox Workshop
Planting continues on Mt Mackie
Stubble Burning
Phascogales in Wandoo
Artwork: Bilya Goguylar Boodja

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Newsletter No. 60

November 2024
Spring

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos
Collgar Scenic Drive
Dead Man’s Soak
Sturt’s Desert Pea
Friends of Mt Mackie
River Walk
York Seed Orchard
Mulla Mulla
Preserving our History
Propagation of local species
Planting for the Future
Quivering Elegance
Wildflower Society Propagation
RCS Calendar 2025

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Newsletter No. 59

July 2024
Winter

Kaarak - Black Cockatoos
Bushland Reserves
Boxthorn & Reserves Signage
Chronicles of Nature
Exploring Bungalbin
Containers for Change
Pelicans
Bulland & Boolardalong
A Surprise Find
RCS AGM Notice
York Wildflower Society Catchup

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Newsletter No. 58

October 2023
Spring

Tree Hollows
The Fascinating World of Carnivorous Plants
Ptilotus holosericeus
Sandpaper Wattle
New Grasstree in the EDC garden
Tidy Town Competition
Possums on Decline in the Wheatbelt
Purple-Crowned Lorikeet
At the York Show
YWS Propagation Programme 2023-4
2024 Calendar—Food & Habitat Plants for
Black Cockatoos
Spring Into York—Programme of Talks
Varied Sitella
York Botanic Art Prize
Weeping Native Pittosporum

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Newsletter No. 57

May 2023
Autumn

Ecological Restoration of Mt Mackie
York Wildflower Branch Keeping Busy
6 Mile Brook Planting Project
Our Native Flora—Our Natural Heritage
Cowering Well Reserve Flood Damage
Tanjinn Well Reserve Revegetation
Stump Out Litter
Bat Boxes Donation by Men's Shed
EDC Upgrade
2023 River Revegetation Program
Hollowed Out
Rakali Community Day
Grant Updates
New Members
Review of Black Cockatoo Crisis film
York Botanic Art Prize
Clean Up Australia Day
Containers for Change

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Newsletter No. 56

November 2022
Spring

Restoring our river
Dawson’s Burrowing Bees
Drosera
Progress at the Environmental Centre
Rakali, Riparian & River Health Project
Echidna Sightings
Spotted Nightjar
Red Morrell—a Wheatbelt tree
York Festival River Events
WA Landcare Annual Network Gathering
TREEmendous Bioscurity Blitz
York Agricultural Show
New Eremophila Propagation Book
School Holiday Activity coming up

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Newsletter No. 55

May 2022
Autumn

Rodent Poisons, Pets & Wildlife
What’s eating the zamia nuts?
Birds of Wallaby Hills Nature Reserve
Wurmbea - A wildflower in June
History of Tanjinn Reserve Well
Collecting Native Seed
The Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
RCS Registered for Donations
New Members
Bird Activity on the Farm
Our Wild Owls are in Peril
The 4-spotted Cup Moth
Containers for Change
Grant Update
Rain Moth

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Newsletter No. 54

November 2021
Spring

NRM Community Stewardship Grant Success
Tree Tour at Gwambygine
Australian Pollinator Week
My Journey with the Avon River
In Our Backyards
York Show
Fringed heath-blue butterfly
Rufous Song Lark
Carpet Python
Book Review
Botanic Art Prize
Welcome New Members
Slender Tree Frog & Western Banjo Frog
The Great Walk Network
Oswald Sargent Reserve
Priority 2 Plant Find—Jacksonia rubra
RCS History
Work begins at the Environmental Centre
Restoration of Historic Grapevine
History of the Seed Orchard
Native Plant Propagation
Fitzgerald River National Park

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Newsletter No. 53

May 2021
Autumn

Containers for Change
Birds in a York Garden
Birds on Farms
Western Spotted Frog
RCS Clean Up Australia Day
Trail Camera Images
Australia Day Awards
Seed Orchard
Blue Tongue Lizard
Western Gerygone
Nature’s Treasures York & Surrounds: The Numbat
Bessie Boyle
Celebration at proposed Environmental Centre site

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Newsletter No. 52

November 2020
Spring

28 years of RCS
Ishar Visit to York
Vale Walter King
Protecting Mt Bakewell’s Flora
The Australian Magpie
Additions to the RCS Herbarium
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Local Hero Grants
Containers for Change
Tanjinn Well Reserve
Flashback – Joy Fleay

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Newsletter No. 51

May 2020
Autumn

Story of Survival
Not a Birdbath—a Bee Pool
Orchid Watch
Jewel Beetle
New Trail Camera Footage
Bat Boxes to Beat the Boredom
Birds in My Backyard Survey
Creating a Small Ecosystem
Bush Food
The Thorny Devil

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Newsletter No. 50

November 2019
Spring

Community Riverbank Planting Day
Wandoo or Accedens?
Identifying Plants
Birds in your Garden
Caught on Camera
Orchids in your area
Christmas Spider
Environmental Hero
The Last Straw

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Newsletter No. 49

May 2019
Autumn

Launch of new logo
Busting Boxthorn
Town Pool Clean-up
Bat myths dispelled
Turtle or Tortoise?
Dell Reserve
Gastrolobium— “Swollen Pod”
Quenda Haven

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Newsletter No. 48

November 2018
Spring

Native bees in your garden?
A fungus called Lawyers Wig
Living with carpet pythons
The great cocky count
Tribute to Joy Fleay
Paruna bushwalk

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Newsletter No. 47

May 2018
Autumn

Project updates
Georgiana Molloy revisited
Silence of the frogs
Drummond’s gum feature
Visit to WA herbarium
The Scarlet Percher
Kids have fun on the Avon
One man’s trash…

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Newsletter No. 46

November 2017
Spring

NRM Bioblitz is a huge success
The Moaning Frog – in your backyard ?
R.C.S project reports: A new species found
R.C.S project reports: Water testing to restart
The delightful Pink Enamel Orchid
Birds of the Avon – The White Faced Heron

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Newsletter No. 45

May 2017
Autumn

White Cheeked Honeyeater
Macro Photography
Darwinia thymoides
York Herbarium returns home
Wambyn Nature Reserve
The Wheatbelt Frog
Avon River Floods!

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Newsletter No. 44

October 2016
Spring

Obsessed by Orchids
The Fringed Mantis Orchid
The Western Banjo Frog
Society Activity Update
White Punk Fungi

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Newsletter No. 43

September 2015
Spring

Gwambygine Pool
What’s out in York?
A short history of the Water Rat
What’s happening with Woylies in WA?
Aussie Backyard Bird Count 2015
WA Threatened Species Forum

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Newsletter No. 42

June 2015
Winter

CARE meeting
Badgin Creek
What’s out in York?
Ghost Fungi
Feral Cat Research

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Newsletter No. 41

March 2015
Autumn

Mt Hardy
Water Rats breeding at Karakamia
What’s out in York?
Rainbow Bee Eaters
Bumper flower season for Marri
Healthy Soils, Healthy Rivers Program
Great Cocky Count

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Newsletter No. 40

December 2014
Summer

In memory of Dr. Cicely Howell
Needling Hills
Water Rats Surveys
Bridal Creeper

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Newsletter No. 39

September 2014
Spring

Dell Reserve
Paruna Sanctuary Bird Walks
Training the Avon River
Aussie Backyard Bird Count
Northam to Burlong Park Walk Trail

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Newsletter No. 38

July 2014
Winter

A Farewell for Alison Clarke
Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary
The Water Rat Project
My 5 weeks in South Africa
Karakamia Sanctuary Chidlow

Our Supporters

We acknowledge the Ballardong Noongar people as the original custodians of this land and their continuing connection to its rivers and bushland. We pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and the pivotal role that they continue to play in caring for country.

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Postal: PO Box 373, York, WA 6302

Street: 7 Glebe Street York, Western Australia

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