Welcome to the June edition of the Hotspots News Online.

Articles in this edition:

1. Fire Season Update, June 2022
2. Hotspots Workshops Update, June 2022
3. Large Forest Owls work in the Richmond - Clarence Lowlands
4. Share your story with PhD Researcher Mercedes Ondik
5. Bushfire funding for Shoalhaven landholders
6. Fire Danger Ratings are changing
7. Join your local Bush Fire Management Committee
8. Meet our newest Hotspots Ecologist - Richard Geddes
9. Fire and Restoration Research Hub
10. Useful links and apps

To find out more about Hotspots workshops and to register, click here or in the Hotspots workshops article below.

Kind regards,                                                                                                             
The Hotspots Team

The wet weather has continued to provide challenging conditions for communities across the eastern states of Australia. Read the full article…

Major flooding events across the state, as well as continued impacts from COVID- 19 have slowed the workshop roll out across the state. However, four successful workshops have been carried out in Bulga Plateau - Elands, Upper Kangaroo River and Berry over the past six months. Read more...

The Vulnerable Southern Greater Glider has been found using nest boxes, which is unusual for the species, during monitoring work at Mt Hyland. Learn more about other project updates. Read more...

Hotspots is collaborating with a UNSW PhD Candidate, Mercedes Ondik, who is researching the impacts of the 2019-20 fire season in NSW, and there is still time to participate! Read more...

The Great Eastern Ranges (GER) in partnership with CEN/Land for Wildlife is currently seeking Expressions of Interest from fire impacted landholders within the Shoalhaven region for funding to support on-ground work. These include tree planting, weed control and fencing of native habitat. Read more...  

The new national fire danger rating system will commence on the 1 September 2022. It will have four levels with action-oriented messages to encourage people to take action to protect themselves and others in the face of bushfire risks. See the new symbology…

Would you like to be more involved in bushfire planning in your local area? There are currently bushfire committees around the state that need someone like you to be a voice for nature during fire planning processes. Read more...

The Hotspots Fire Project has a new ecologist, Richard Geddes, who is delivering workshops in the northern and central parts of the state. Read more...

The Fire and Restoration Research Hub has a range of new resources including on a booklet from BFNH CRC on cultural burning, a council perspective on ecological burns and a book review of A Wide Open Land by Peter A. Ridgeway. Read more...

Check out the Trees Near Me app that gives you access to plant classifications in the field and the portable map app, Avenza Maps, added to our list of useful tools, databases and applications. Read more...