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Library Donation Library Donation Ethical Investment --- Who Cares? Fighting for Our Wetlands When you put money into the bank or Blue Mountains swamps are a wonderfully contribute toward your longer term diverse community of flora of fauna. financial independence via super- Blue Mountains swamps soak up the rain and annuation, do you ever give a thought as keep our magnificent waterfalls flowing, even in the to how that money might be used? dryest seasons. Without them the water from the Could it be supporting uranium mining, rainfall would simply run over the cliffs and our human rights abuse or tobacco creeks and waterfalls would dry up between showers. Library Donation production just as easily as waste BUT, Blue Mountains wetlands are not The Society has donated management, alternative energy or nature protected . There is no legal protection for these $1000 worth of new books to conservation. superb communities. Some individual flora and Katoomba Reference Library. Our Society’s management fauna are recognised but the communities in which There are books on committee have recently invested our they live are not. Australian Soils, Mammals, reserve funds in three Managed Ethical This has to be remedied. Blue Mountains Sustainability and Australia's Funds, which are expected, over time, to Conservation Society has already started the Greenhouse future, and the give a better return than was being complicated and expensive process of enabling wonderful Flora of NSW by received from Bank Term Deposits. swamps to be listed in State and Federal legislation. Gwen Harden which is a At our general meeting on Friday 27 A fighting fund is needed to support this process and four-volume reference book April, James Thier, an Executive to continue the vital education of the human about plants. Director of Australian Ethical Investment community about our precious wetlands. Also included are books Ltd, will discuss ethical investments and Come to our Swamp Dance on Saturday 21 with practical ideas on how their benefits, both financial and environ- April at Mid Mountains Community Centre, Lawson, to have a Bushfire Safe mental. Through being aware of from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm. There will be dancing, Home, attract frogs and birds environmental and social concerns in displays and prizes. Contribute to our fund, our fun to your garden and how to investment decisions, investors have the and our wisdom! design a eco-friendly house. power to shun harmful activities and to And come on a Bush Walk on Sunday 22 April, Some other titles are From change the attitudes of companies that 10 am to 12 noon. Jill Dark will lead a walk along Care to Action – making a might otherwise have a negative impact the Overcliff Walk and describe the habitats and sustainable world by M on the environment. By doing this we vegetation, including swampland, along the way. Goldgate, and Wildlife & can make positive changes to our Woodchips: Leadbeater's economic and social system. Possum, a test case for The meeting will be held at the costs over a longer period than last sustainable forestry. Green Space Green Conservation Hut, end of Fletcher Street, financial year. The audited accounts Time – the way of science – Copernicus Wentworth Falls, on Friday 27 April, were presented at our March Annual by C Barlow is a good narrative about starting at 7.30 pm. Visitors are very General Meeting. science with a spiritual perspective. The welcome. One of the reasons for the expansion NCC Conference Papers On the Brink: Is of the Lawson nursery was mentioned in the Threatened Species Act Working? are Nursery Success Hut News for February 2001, our also included in the donation. A Bumper Year and Big Contracts contract with the RTA for supply of Our nurseries at Blackheath and 25,000 native plants of local provenance Lawson have just completed their best for Shell Corner in Katoomba. financial year ever. It was an eventful We are pleased to announce that time when we not only extended the since then we have gained another RTA Lawson Nursery to a capacity of 30,000 contract, this time to supply 22,500 plants, but we also bought a Toyota truck plants for revegetation of the landscape and had it fitted out for nursery use. when the RTA has completed the road From our plant sales we received improvements at Soldiers Pinch, between $32,620 for the year ended 28 Feb 2001. Mount Boyce (just west of Blackheath) Saturday, 21 April The truck was bought for $14,375, and Browntown Oval at Mount Victoria. 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm NRMA insurance cost us about $512, These two contracts alone will Mid Mountains Community Centre additions and modifications cost another certainly keep the nursery volunteers $544, a total of about $15,431. Other Lawson busy over the next two years. Adults $7 Children Free outgoings were $10,105, which included Nursery work, (in spite of the poor the running costs of the two nurseries, pay!!!), is a very rewarding activity: the Displays prepared by petrol, and the $4,625 investment in the joy of seeing plants grow is something Blue Mountains Conservation Society new nursery facilities at Lawson. Total very near to the heart of all gardeners, outgoings were therefore $25,536. Door Prizes Floor Prizes and what makes it so special is the Food and Drink Available The difference between what we knowledge that those plants also received, $32,620, and what we spent, contribute to a sustainable environment. Enquiries: Ruth Ley 4782.1635 $25,536, is therefore $7,084. Of course, And of course we shouldn’t forget the our Treasurer and the auditors do not enormous contribution that the nursery view our business in this simple way. volunteers’ work makes to the Society’s By law, their calculations spread some of cash flow. Sunday, 22 April the Congratulations are the order of the 10 am to 12 noon day! David Coleby, Nursery Manager, Meet at the Conservation Hut Phone/Fax 4784.1395. (No Charge) Hut News , No. 165, April 2001 — Page 1. “Hut News ”, the newsletter of Blue Mountains Conservation Society Inc. spectacular photographs by Henry Gold P.O. Box 29, Wentworth Falls, 2782 as part of the Wilderness 2000 Phone 4757 1872 Fax 4757 1753 Campaign. It will take place at the Email: [email protected] Bondi Pavilion from Monday 14 May to Web page: http//www.pnc.com.au/~bmcs Sunday 27 May daily from 10am to 5pm. President: Robin Mosman 4757.1354 Henry Gold has provided images for (fax) the Foundation's campaigns, as well as 4757.4503 First Vice President: Bob Seaborne 4751.6100 those of the NPA since the 1960's. (e-mail) [email protected] Henry's images are powerful persuaders. Second Vice President: Jim Wallace 4784.3305 They have converted many members of Correspondence Secretary: Frances Love the public to become wilderness 4757.2585 (e-mail) [email protected] supporters. His work has been used to Meetings Secretary: Heather Hull 4739.1493 Internal Migration Is Helpful (e-mail) [email protected] lobby Governments and has been At a recent Braidwood Council Membership Secretary: Elizabeth Van Reyswoud presented in many books and magazines. meeting, a councillor said that a lot of 4759.2508 (e-mail) The exhibition features some of Henry's ‘professional protestors’ had moved into [email protected] more recent work from the last decade his area. He went on that if they had Treasurer: Bart Beech 4739.9947 which have not been displayed before. been there earlier, they would have (e-mail) [email protected] Part of the proceeds from the sale of Publicity: Margaret Sleath 4759.3350 stopped the Snowy scheme and be sitting (e-mail) [email protected] photographs will go towards the there ‘in the dark with candles and Land Use: Lyndal Sullivan 4782.1635 Wilderness 2000 campaign being matches’. (e-mail) [email protected] conducted by a coalition of environment One plus produced by changes to Walks Convenor: Bill Graham 4759.1692 groups, including NPA and Colong. The technology and career structures is that (e-mail) [email protected] campaign seeks to protect about 1.5 Plant Nursery Manager: David Coleby 4784.1395 not so many Australians have to live (fax) 4784.1395 million hectares of wilderness in 51 new nearly all our creative years in capital National Parks: David Patfield 4757.3949 areas and additions. The official launch cities. By moving into non-urban areas Education: Meredith Brownhill 4782.4823 will take place on Tuesday 15 May at we can boost local communities with our (e-mail) [email protected] 6pm. Everyone is welcome. Bushfire Rep: Hugh Paterson 4751-2303 consumer spending or perhaps even set (e-mail) [email protected] Tree Planting Weekend up new economically and environ- Projects: Helga Esamie 4787.7690 5-6 May, 2001 mentally sustainable industries. People (e-mail) [email protected] The Capertee Valley Regent Honey- who won’t accept this, and parrot the Ian Baird 4782.6775 ‘Greens Cost Jobs’ slogan should be (e-mail) [email protected] eater Recovery Group plans to plant Newsletter Editor: Christine Davies 4787.7246 7,000 trees and shrubs in May 2001, an ignored. (e-mail) [email protected] ambitious target which can only be Let’s Not be Cynical achieved with the continued assistance of TV personality Don Burke has given Native Plant Sale our volunteer workforce. his time free of charge for the The autumn sale of BMCS native New recruits are most welcome, so if advertisements promoting the Howard plants will take place at the Conservation you have not yet taken part in one of our Government’s concern about greenhouse Hut, end of Fletcher Street, Wentworth planting weekends, why not join us on gas issues.
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