03 Oct 2024
Weeding effort for the 2024-35 season to date has been updated
Our effort has got off to a good start with 156 hours spent on weed control, between for July to September, 30% more than the average for the previous 14 seasons of monitoring.
Many of the weeds that haven't troubled us during the last few wet years are keeping us busy. Those weeds that relish the dry conditions (second driest July to September in our 15 years of monitored weed control) and the resulting reduced competition from other species. including Saffron thistles and Paterson's curse.
09 Sep 2024
2024 PCS Annual Planning Briefing for ParkCare has been added to the Annual Briefings web page.
Two of the presentations can be downloaded along with "Minutes" containing detailed descriptions of all presentations
06 Sep 2024
Date and details now available on the What's On Calendar for the Women in Nature walk. (September 25)
06 Sep 2024
Website upgraded and updated
Some major changes have been uploaded to the fotpin website today to:
What's new?
Of the over 450 html pages on the site, just over 100 have been fully upgraded. All of the others have been integrated into the site but with the old, non-responsive html standards.
The upgraded and non-upgraded pages share a common menu and are fully interoperable.
The 290 pages that comprise our weed control effort records for the last 15 seasons represent the bulk of the pages that have not been upgraded because (a) the sheer amount of effort involved, (b) their design is not readily adaptable to be response to page size and (c) most users of these pages do so on a large screen. Many of the other pages will be gradually upgraded, depending on their frequency of use, as time permits .
This is a major update implementing a lot of new code and while it is compliant
with the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Some work is still needed to future-proof
the code for when some current standards will be phased out. Unfortunately not all browsers comply with
the W3C standards, but the major changes to the website
have been tested with the 5 most commonly used ones.
That said there may well be some problems of my making so please report anything
that doesn't seem to be working properly, broken links, etc to me at
webmaster@fotpin.org.au.
But hopefully you enjoy the improvements.
Warren Bond
31 Aug 2024
Spring events program launched and added to the What's On Calendar.
31 Aug 2024
fotpin Update #48 added to the newsletters page
07 Aug 2024
Weeding Effort summary for the 2023-24 season updated.
Progress in controlling Blackberries, Briars ans Verbascum also updated on the
Achievements in Weed Control page.
The weeding effort for the 2023-24 season 869 hours, 98% within the Reserve. The small amount of effort outside the Reserve was aimed at creating buffer zones around the boundaries. This was 13% less than last season and 2% less than the average for the previous 13 seasons of monitoring. If Weetangera paddock is excluded from calculations(because it has received a disproportionate amount effort compared with the rest of the Reserve for the past 5 years) effort for the rest of the Reserve was 24% less than the average for the previous 13 seasons.
Most effort (303 h; 36% of total) was spent in this period on the group of uncategorised low to medium risk broadleaf weeds largely in Weetangera paddock. This was followed at a distance by St. John's Wort (166 h, 19%), miscellaneous Woody weeds excluding Briars and Blackberries (91 h, 11%), Paterson's curse (78 h, 9%) largely in Kama Link paddock, and Thistles other than Saffron thistles (58 h, 7%). All other weeds combined accounted for 20% of effort.
See the weeding effort page and associated links to maps and charts for more statistics and comparisons with previous seasons and across the different management regions of the Reserve.
09 Jul 2024
fotpin Update #47 added to the Newsletters page
26 Jan 2024:
1000th native species confirmed on the Pinnacle Nature Reserve
The 1,000th native species was confirmed today. Although this was a plant (our 269th) a rush of new insect species (at 450 the largest grouping of species we have) in the last couple of months was responsible for bringing the tally close to this milestone total.
See the one page Pinnacle Native Species Numbers for a breakdown of these 1000 species and/or go to our flora & fauna pages to explore what all those species are and see photographs taken on the reserve of some of them.