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	<title>SOUTHERN TABLELANDS ECOSYSTEMS PARK</title>
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	<description>STEP Inc - creating a community-based regional botanic garden, education and ecosystem recovery centre for the Southern Tablelands.</description>
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		<title>STEP Newsletter Summer 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Summer 2011 STEP Newsletter may be downloaded from this link. STEP News Summer 2011 (PDF)]]></description>
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		<title>Step Lot 100 Stage One Masterplan Panels</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/08/23/step-lot-100-stage-two-masterplan-panels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STEP Inc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STEP has developed 5 colourful display posters with information on the iconic ecosystems of the southern tablelands. The display posters present the STEP plans for landscaping and planting stage 1 of the southern tablelands regional botanic garden, education and ecosystems recovery centre. LOT 100 MASTERPLAN STAGE 1 PANELS 1-5 PDF (4.74MB) The posters display key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Scientific Committee makes final determination on Snow Gum</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/06/12/nsw-scientific-committee-makes-final-determination-on-snow-gum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Lawson requested that STEP news publicise the news that the  Scientific Committee, established by the Threatened Species Conservation Act, has made a Final Determination to list the Tablelands Snow Gum, Black Sallee, Candlebark and Ribbon Gum Grassy Woodland in the South Eastern Highlands, Sydney Basin, South East Corner and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Andy Russell</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/06/12/an-interview-with-andy-russell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/06/12/an-interview-with-andy-russell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STEP Inc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is based on an interview in April 2011 with Andy Russell,  a founding member of STEP and currently both the STEP treasurer and Public Officer. “Until I came to Canberra in 2000 I’d lived on farms all my life” My earliest memory of learning the botanical names of plants in a systematic way is 1960, the year when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling the understorey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STEP Inc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Payne of Quandong Designs, our pro bono landscape architect, is completing her work on the landscape design for the STEP site. This project is supported by an  ACT Environment Grant entitled Growing Our Natural Capital, awarded to STEP in September 2010, by the former Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and the National Arboretum. Barbara has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Molonglo  Connectivity &#8230;a proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/06/12/developing-molonglo-connectivity-a-proposal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/06/12/developing-molonglo-connectivity-a-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STEP Inc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members will be interested to know that the STEP Committee is supporting the Conservation Council’s application for an ACT Environment Grant round for 2011/2012. The proposal is to develop a connectivity concept plan for the Lower Molonglo Landscape. STEP has been actively promoting connectivity in this region of the ACT by bringing the various conservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STEP Working Bees</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/05/25/step-working-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 12:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working bees have been very productive recently. Now is a good time for STEP members to visit the STEP site and see what has been achieved so far.  We are always glad to see members who would like to join our Thursday morning ‘working bees’. Please confirm your interest in this very practical expression of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Birdlime Spider of Block 100</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/05/23/278/</link>
		<comments>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/05/23/278/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 10:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>STEP Inc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article contibuter by Stephen Skinner The Birdlime spider (Celaenia kinbergi) is an interesting member of the diverse family of Orb Weavers. She, and yes, she is the big spider, the male is tiny, builds a day-bed and the wonderful ‘lobster buoy’ incubation sacs and little more. She is believed to lure her diet of moths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CVA helps construct Botanic Garden visitor pathways</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/05/22/cva-helps-construct-botanic-garden-visitor-pathways/</link>
		<comments>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/05/22/cva-helps-construct-botanic-garden-visitor-pathways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 21 May 2011 and at 9.30 the start of a wonderful day at the STEP site, National Arboretum Canberra, in the glorious autumn sunshine. A bunch of conservation volunteers were driven on site in the Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) van by Tim Harvey. They brought enormous energy and their spirit of adventure to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC News Canberra features Festival of the Forests</title>
		<link>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/03/21/abc-news-canberra-features-festival-of-the-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.step.asn.au/2011/03/21/abc-news-canberra-features-festival-of-the-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News Canberra included a feature story on the Festival of the Forests in its evening broadcast on Sunday 20/03/2011. An accompanying article and the original story may be viewed on the ABC website. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/21/3169044.htm]]></description>
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