Some highlights from our blog archives
Cottesloe's Citizen of the Year 2010
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Sue Freeth, has received the Click here to read Robyn's blog post |
Plantguards: Pros and cons
‘To bag or not to bag’ - this is the question we ask ourselves each time we plant seedlings. After 10 years of experience CCA volunteers have learnt some of the pros and cons of using plant guards. Also read an update (November 2009) about a plant guard which became a death trap for a snake!
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Naturalist Club studies inter-glacial periods in Cottesloe
Vic Semeniuk from the Naturalist Club took his listeners through a quarter of a million years of fascinating geology!
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IGA’s Micro Bat Boxes
CCA has used some of the money donated by IGA Mosman Park and IGA Cottesloe to erect micro-bat boxes.
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Synergy/Mudurup project underway
Our 2009/10 project with Synergy/Landcare and Town of Cottesloe is ecological restoration work at Mudurup Rocks. The project is going well.
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Saving Silky scaevola
Many Cottesloe plant species are under threat locally. CCA is determined to build up the numbers of these plants, so that we will not lose more species in our area. There was only one Silky scaevola plant left – but now we have 8, with more being propagated.
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Secrets of seed collecting
Two CCA members attended a seed collection course at APACE Nursery. This blog entry decribes some of what they learnt.
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Fun, learning, seed collecting and quandongs
Read about various summer activities plus the CCA quandong project. Cottesloe’s few remnant quandongs have not had any seed for several years so we removed a few root suckers, grew them in pots and in June 2009 planted 6 at Grant Marine Park.
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Australia Day local hero
83 year old friend Doug Mickle must be Cottesloe’s most consistent and dedicated coast-carer! He collects rubbish on Cottesloe beach and has been doing it for years – rain and shine.
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Cottesloe Primary & Conservation week
During Conservation Week in 2008 Cottesloe Primary year 4’s joined Cottesloe Coastcarers to share ideas about the Conservation week theme of water use. We had a local plants exercise and the student’s work sheets can be seen on the blog.
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‘Whose coast is it? Adapting for the future’
This was the theme of the Fifth State Coastal Conference held in Fremantle. Three CCA members attended the conference.
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Cottesloe Coastcare launches new Website
The Hon Julie Bishop MP removed a red ribbon from a computer at the Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Peppermint Grove Library and unveiled CCA’s new website.
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