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Early Fire Alert

Fire Alert

The huge fuel build up over the last six months has put the RFS on high fire alert for an early fire season. Aussie Pumps is ready! The company has increased capability to provide what is widely acclaimed as the world’s best high pressure firefighting pump range. “The Aussie Fire Chief, and our budget Aussie […]

Winter Fire Safety Tips

Winter Fire

With Winter fire fast approaching now is the time to check off a few tasks around the home. Devastatingly, approximately 20 people die each year in home fires caused by faulty electrical appliances, heaters and fireplaces. Here are a few simple tips to ensure you and your family are safe from any harm. For those […]

Bushcare Restarts

Bushcare group

This volunteer-based program focuses on the restoration and maintenance of Council bushland. It has now restarted following closures caused by COVID19. Bushcare group volunteers are incredibly important to protecting the native bushland, as well as preserving natural flora and fauna and removing harmful plants that could comprise these natural environments. They complete hands-on work as […]

Hidden in the Hills Bushcare

Hills Bushcare

By Lachlan Turner As you drive along roads that border our bushland reserves, frequently there are signs displayed stating “Bush Regeneration in Progress”, or, “Hills Bushcare This Sunday”. If the integrity of our natural bushland scene is to be maintained, and native plants are to be protected, it is necessary from time to time for […]

Bushwalking Etiquette

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A Local Bushwalker While we are enjoying walking in our local area please consider the following article from the National Parks Association of NSW website: Bushwalking  “There are many different reasons why people head into natural areas to go bushwalking. Maybe to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday city life, maybe to clear the […]

Glenorie RFS

pile burn Rural Fire Brigade

September is the last opportunity to do a pile burn before the fast approaching fire season. For the last few years, fire season has been brought forward due to warm and dry conditions, which is certainly a possibility this year. Many of us have been at home for August, with September looking to be set […]

LYNNE’S LEGS – A Surprise Ending Ben Bullen Road

Ben Bullen Road

Contributed by Lynne Newey I was recommended this walk by a local shop-keeper who said it was a lovely walk with a pleasant surprise at the end. That sounded good to me, so off I went. I parked at the end of Ben Bullen Road and started my walk from the fire trail gate. The […]

“Lynne’s Legs”- Shepherds Drive

Lynne’s Legs-Shepherds Drive

By Lynne Newey The Callicoma Walking Track “Lynne’s Legs”-Shepherds Drive, Cherrybrook, moderate grade loop, 5.9 kms., 1 hour 20 mins. I started the walk on Shepherds Drive across the road from the Woolworths Service Station at the Cherrybrook Village Shops. You will see a sign announcing McKinley Conservation Reserve, Blackwattle Trail, to the side of […]

2076 Jubes ‘MTB Park

MTB Park

By Susanna Mills It’s window shopping only for mountain bicycles in North Wahroonga. Opened late 2011, Jubes was the first purpose built ‘MTB park’ in Sydney. Set upon a dramatic, high ridgeline at the foot of Golden Jubilee Oval, perfect landscapes for incredible mountain bicycling experiences stretch as far as the eye can see… Recognising […]

Platforms…

Platforms

By Susanna Mills A life lived close to nature, is a life lived in the arena of consequences. This is a place where you have freedom of choice, but no freedom from the results of your actions- which you must live with. What happens out on the trails, doesn’t necessarily stay on the trails. You […]