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FOMS Newsletter #28, December 2025

Spring overflow, Mulligan Springs near Lake Callabonna
This newsletter edition features:

  • The wide range of activities undertaken by FOMS in a busy 2025 field program;
  • The Finniss Springs Monitoring Project – a broad collaboration aiming to assist the conservation of the endangered plant, Eriocaulon carsonii;
  • The initiation of a management planning process for Dieri country and FOMS’ input to that;
  • The GAB springs monitoring workshop held at Edgbaston Springs.

FOMS Newsletter #27, November 2024

Sunset at Levi Creek
This newsletter edition features:

  • Protective fencing for Reedy Springs on Murnpeowie;
  • Inspections on Murnpeowie and Moolawatana with further spring fencing in mind;
  • The main FOMS’ working bee of June 2024;
  • A two-day survey of Hawker Springs, on the Peake Pastoral Lease;
  • Monitoring and management planning projects at Finniss Springs;
  • A safety concern on the Mine Walk at the Peake Overland Telegraph site.

FOMS Newsletter #26, December 2023

Stockyards at Loudon Spring
Stockyards at Loudon Spring. Photo by Erik Dahl
This newsletter edition features:

  • Continued efforts to protect important mound springs on pastoral lands;
  • The weather-foreshortened FOMS working bee of June and successful working bee of August 2023;
  • The Field Day at Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park for students of the Oodnadatta and Marree Schools;
  • The site-clearance inspection of Reedy Springs, on Murnpeowie Station, with Dieri representatives;
  • Interesting vegetation trends at the Little Bubbler Spring.

FOMS Newsletter #23, September 2020

This newsletter edition features:

  • Arabana Rangers and Friends of Mound Springs work together for Springs Conservation
  • Levi Springs recover following fencing
  • FOMS visits Lake Frome Supergroup Springs
  • Endangered Plant Translocation provides Food for Thought
  • Horses causing problems at Lake Eyre Springs
  • Update on Burning Trials at Bopeechee and Beatrice Springs
  • Bore Wetlands Pose Dilemma
  • Decision needed regarding Tarlton Springs Fencing

FOMS Newsletter #21, November 2019

This newsletter edition features:

  • FOMS Volunteers Fence Levi Springs
  • Report on FOMS Working Bee, May 2019
  • Burn Trial Sites checked on Finniss Springs
  • Walking Trails in good shape at Strangways and the Peake
  • Bollards replaced at Peake Carpark
  • Vegetation monitoring provides a surprise or two
  • GAB Springs Management Planning and Stewardship Initiative
  • Life Membership for FOMS Stalwarts
  • Pastoral Act under the Spotlight
  • Water Allocation Plan under Review
  • GAB Strategic Management Plan nearing completion

FOMS Newsletter #19, September 2017

FOMS Newsletter Spring 2017 coverThis newsletter edition features:

  • FOMS’ efforts to repair walking trails at the Peake
  • An introductory trip for members making their first trip under the FOMS banner
  • Some high-tech advances by FOMS using a drone
  • The current situation re proposed fencing at Levi Springs
  • A spring grazing trial at Billa Kalina
  • Complications with the spring burning trial at Finniss Springs
  • Efforts by DEWNR to curtail cattle intrusion into Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park
  • FOMS meeting with the Marla Oodnadatta NRM Group
  • The new Arid Lands NRM Plan