Strathbogie Ranges – Nature View

• Yawang – a Cultural Reserve
  The Victorian Government recently announced its commitment to creating a Cultural Reserve across the entire Strathbogie State Forest. Planning and management of the reserve will follow a “collaborative governance” arrangement with Traditional Owners, the Taungurung Land and Waters Council (TLaWC). We congratulate the Victorian government, its two key advisory bodies, the Great Outdoors Taskforce and […]
• Nest-boxes and Tree Tactics
  This post is part of The Last Stand project, documenting the small population of Southern Greater Gliders in the Caveat Forest, western Strathbogie Ranges. Links to other posts, below. After a century-and-a-half of forest clearing and disturbance the Caveat Forest is healing, slowly. One of the main consequences of settler farming is that the forest […]
• The Last Stand – Final Wrap
  Join us on Sunday 24th August, 2-4 pm at the Highlands Community Hall Apologies. Due to a Covid19 infection and close contacts, we’ve had to cancel this event. We’ll try to reschedule at a later date. Beginning in late 2024 Strathbogie Ranges Conservation has been probing some of the secrets of the Caveat Forest to […]
• Walking with Greater Gliders
  To see a Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) at night is an exciting experience. To inform that experience with knowledge makes it even more valuable. In the past few months The Last Stand project has shared the excitement and beauty of these very special creatures with the local and regional community. Our two guided night […]
• Here comes 10,000!
  Header image credit. It’s been a little over four years since iNaturalist SNAP! began (March 2021) and in that time it has grown steadily. It’s now be a substantial data-base of nearly 10,000 observations (9,506 as of today). This includes almost 2000 individual species contributed by over 500 observers and helped by over 1,200 identifiers. […]
• Drone survey for Southern Greater Glider – Caveat forest
  In May 2025 Strathbogie Ranges Conservation and Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative engaged drone specialists Field Master Systems to conduct a thermal survey of two areas in the Caveat forest. The target species was the nationally Endangered Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), but all tree-dwelling mammal observations were documented. The survey occurred in an area where […]