PHOTO: “Down the Track” participants on their most recent camp at Lake Cargelligo.
At Lake Cargelligo, local youth group “Down the Track” helps with ecological monitoring of the big lake and the islands within it by camping out at least four times each year.
The latest camp was held in February with monitoring overseen by local biologist (and Landcare co-ordinator) Adam Kerezsy, and local farmer (and chair of the not-for-profit Cargelligo Wetlands and Lakes Council) Peter Skipworth.
According to a “Down the Track” report, Mr Kerezsy and Mr Skipworth always try to get extra experts along to share the fun, with this task recently falling to Thomas Munro, an ecologist with the Biodiversity Conservation Trust. Mr Munro made the long trek across from Dubbo and showed the trackers how to identify plants using maps, books and identification keys…