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Special edition SOWN ENews 14 August 2026 Vale Jodi Rees Jodi Rees. Photo: Mark Crocker

The Bushcare Bugle is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Partnerships Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available....

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of Grants at a Glance from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Partnerships Program. View link here: Grants at a glance – August 2026 Galahs Eolophus roseicapilla. Image: This Week By The Creek  

Bumper year 2026 is a bumper year for native raspberries in Enoggera Creek catchment with the season starting early in May and likely to continue through spring. Of the three local species of raspberry, Rubus probus Atherton Raspberry is the most common. In a suitable...

The Bushcare Bugle is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Partnerships Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available....

Knowing which plants to plant where   A Regional Ecosystem (RE) is a distinct vegetation community that occurs in association with a particular combination of geology, soil and landform in a specific bioregion in Queensland. Each RE is classified by a three-part...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read June...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read May...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read April...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read March...

Tucked into the borderlands of Mt Coot-tha Reserve — far from the noise of the city, yet connected to it — Beth Shield has quietly been bringing a forgotten gully back to life. In the mountain’s cool shadow, along the banks of Ithaca Creek, her patch forms part of a...

The bushcare site along Yoorala Street really is something special. Through SOWN’s Protect The Gap Rainforest project, this stretch of rainforest along Enoggera Creek in The Gap has been identified as critically endangered subtropical rainforest — a rare remnant...

SOWN members and bushcare volunteers are advised to remain vigilent about preventing tick bites following news that the death of a NSW teenager was caused by tick-induced mammalian meat allergy. 16-year-old teenager, Jeremy Webb, died in June 2022 after eating beef...

Results of 2025 eDNA testing of water in Enoggera and Fish Creeks have shown that the overall biodiversity of our creeks is in good shape. The elusive Rakali Hydromys chrysogaster were present along with 17 species of native fish including Australian Lungfish...

Big win for the creek In a big win for Enoggera Creek, large weed trees have been removed from the creek bank between The Gap Village and The Gap Football Club. OUT with Bauhinias Bauhinia variegata, Chinese Elm Celtis sinensis and Camphor Laurel Cinnamomum camphora...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read...

At least two ancient trees fell at bushcare sites during a brief but intense storm which hit The Gap about 3 pm on 24 December 2025. A huge Deciduous Fig Ficus henneana went down across the Fish Creek Track in Glenella Street Park between Glenella Street and Lochinvar...

When Eildon Hill bushcare group started their first working bee in November 2025, it became the 41st group contributing to the restoration of natural areas in Enoggera catchment. Named after Eildon Hill in Scotland, the site is entirely surrounded by the suburb of...

SOWN's Saturday roster manager Janelle Rains was presented with Life Membership of Save Our Waterways Now Inc. at the SOWN Nursery Christmas Party on 17 December 2025. Janelle was responsible for preparing the Saturday roster from 2019 until 2025. Nursery Manager Dick...

Life Member Dawn Whyte was the Saturday roster manager for the SOWN Nursery from 2009 until her death in 2019 at the age of 92 years. In her younger days, Dawn had worked as an executive secretary and for many years she was the secretary of Solomos, the Greek...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read...

SOWN life member and nursery manager 2000-04 Pete Dorney has died aged 80 years. Previously manager of the Greening Australia Nursery, Pete oversaw the SOWN nursery's permanent move to the Paten Park site in early 2003. Current nursery coordinator Lynn Swan said "I...

Ed Bennett has been elected president of Save Our Waterways Now along with new vice-president Kat Cooke and two new committee members Dan Mitchell and Tim Whyte at the 2025 annual general meeting (AGM). See full list of 2026 office-bearers and committee members. Held...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read...

April Banana Bush Tabernaemontana pandacaqui. Collect yellow pods, called follicles, from shrub when they begin to open. Wear gloves because sap it sticky, caustic and poisonous. PHOTO: Anne Jones For more information please refer to other SOWN pages on seed...

We’re thrilled to see momentum building at Pangella Springs at Chaprowe Road The Gap—the site of a brand-new creek catchment group in The Gap. Glenys Carlson has worked tirelessly with the Chaprowe Road Habitat Brisbane Group, transforming the area with 27 years of...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read the...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read the...

From school project to bushcare boost Seed collecting is a vital part of keeping our nursery thriving – without it, we couldn’t supply the thousands of native plants needed for local habitat restoration. Volunteers keep the cycle going, and we’re always looking for...

A huge thank you to Payne Road State School On Friday 1 August 2025, Payne Road State School hosted an incredibly successful Environmental Leaders Day, bringing together Year 6 student leaders from across a number of local schools to take part in hands-on...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read the...

From Fish Creek. Photo: Mark Crocker All nature lovers are invited to Flowers photographic exhibition by long-term SOWN volunteer Mark Crocker from 5 pm on Friday 1 August until Sunday 3 August at Vacant Assembly 266 Montague Rd West End. The exhibition features 17...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.   Read the...

This magnificent mushroom found earlier in 2025 on the Paten Road Track, Mount Coot-tha is an undescribed Xerocomus sp. It's related to the Boletes, a family of mushrooms which usually have pores instead of gills on their underside and include the culinary porcini...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The June...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The May 2025...

Right now in April 2025 is the time to join in the search to record and document Australia's fungi by uploading your photos and observations to iNaturalist. Australia has an estimated 250,000 species of fungi with only 12,000 species described. That means you have an...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The April...

At the end of July 2025 SOWN has almost finished a process of updating all the Plants to Plant entries on our web site include to include a subheading "Seed collecting and propagation". At the time, the number of Plants to Plants listed was 302 species known...

Restoration Day As you may know, Balaangala has a “pay the rent” scheme called the Restoration Fund. Contributions to the fund accrue over a 12 month period and then are distributed to groups or small businesses that are 100% owned/managed by First Nations people. The...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program.  This edition provides information about what to do during Cyclone Alfred and its aftermath. All volunteers and group leaders need to observe caution...

The SOWN nursery is closed on Saturday 8 March due to Cyclone Alfred and will reopen on Wednesday 12 March. Keep safe and best wishes to all our members and friends.

Bushcare volunteers Marina Novak and Russell Harisson recently recorded this short video of a Lace Monitor Varanus varius during a working bee at Glenella Street Park bushcare site on Fish Creek The Gap. Also know as a tree goanna, this massive lizard can be...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The February...

Combating Climate Change   The SOWN Climate Action Working Group commenced in October 2021 in response to objectives in the SOWN Enoggera Catchment Plan, in particular, ‘to respond to the impacts of climate change’. Initially the group explored climate change...

If you live nearby Enoggera Creek in The Gap Rainforest area there's a chance you might see a Bobuck on your back deck. That's exactly what happened to SOWN member Bob Whiteman who photographed a Short-eared Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus on his back...

While clearing weeds on the bank of Enoggera Creek, bushcare volunteers at Walton Bridge Reserve recently noticed there were Lomandra hystrix growing in the trees. Hard to believe but there were two Waterhousea floribunda, side by side, on the bank of...

In less than three years since it was completely cleared of vegetation, a section of Enoggera Creek bank at Walton Bridge Reserve has been entirely revegetated by natural recruitment. Upstream from the footbridge where Enoggera Creek meets Fish Creek, the...

SOWN wishes all our members, partners and friends a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a healthy and safe 2025. The SOWN Nursery Christmas lunch will be held at the nursery on Wednesday 18 December at 12.00 Noon. All Wednesday and Saturday volunteers are invited. The lunch is free...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The December...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The November...

All members and friends are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Save Our Waterways Now Inc at 4 pm on Saturday 7 December 2024 at the SOWN Nursery, 57 Paten Road The Gap. The meeting will include reports on SOWN’s activities for the last year and the...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available.  The October...

Sense of smell is a neglected but often useful way to identify both native and weedy plants. Some of our native plants have distinctive scents and a few of the worst weeds are easily identifiable by their smell. If you can't identify a plant by its...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available  The September...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available  The August...

This Week by the Creek is an eNewsletter from our partners at the Brisbane City Council Creek Catchments Program. It contains information and updates about creek activities and events across Brisbane, training opportunities and grants that are available  The July 2024...