Until recently, it was thought that the Arid Bronze Azure Butterfly (Ogyris subterretris petrina) was extinct.

The Mt Brown Reserve is popular with locals and visitors to the district of York, and at its entrance, “The Triangle” was a historically cleared piece of land.

The Nungarin Heritage & Nature Trail is located in remnant bushland adjacent to the townsite of Nungarin.

The Talbot Brook Land Management Association Inc (TBLMA) is an active catchment group in the Shire of York.

The Australian Master TreeGrower Program is a nationally recognised training program for land managers wishing to learn more about integrating trees and tree crops as part of their farming system.

In 2010, Northam Senior High School applied for a Small Community Grant to produce a bush tucker garden on the school’s paddock.

The Quairading Land Conservation District Committee (LCDC) is one of the few remaining Landcare groups in the Wheatbelt.

The Toodyay Friends of the River Inc (TFOR) wanted to build a picnic shelter with interpretative signage at Millard’s Pool, on the Avon River to the east of Toodyay townsite.

The Avonvale Primary School applied for a Small Community Grant in order to run school activities to promote appreciation, understanding and caring of the natural environment.

The Wildflower Society of WA, Avon Branch has a Bushland Garden and a Seed Orchard.

The Koorda Community Resource Centre (CRC) worked in conjunction with the Koorda Primar

In 2011, The Men of the Trees Inc applied to Wheatbelt NRM for a Small Community Grant to enable them to deliver “Treemendous Trees” to regional primary schools.

The Mt Marshall Native Plant Herbarium Group began in the early 1990s.

The Men of the Trees had sets of an educational kit called “Treemendous Trees”, originally funded by the Public Education Endowment Trust.

Mt Stirling or “Mulyeen” is located in the northeast corner of the Quairading Shire.

In 2012 the Toodyay Naturalists’ Club Inc applied to the Wheatbelt NRM’s Small Community Grant program for funds to draw engineering plans for a bird hide for installation on Red Banks Pool, near Lloyd’s Reserve, Avon River, Toodyay.

In 2012 the Toodyay Naturalists’ Club Inc applied to the Wheatbelt NRM’s Small Community Grant program for funds to draw engineering plans for a bird hide for installation on Red Banks Pool, near Lloyd’s Reserve, Avon River, Toodyay.

The Wallatin Wildlife and Landcare Inc applied to Wheatbelt NRM for a Small Community Grant in 2012 in order to put together twelve sensor camera packs to record wildlife movements throughout the region.

The Ngungali Aboriginal Corporation of York applied to Wheatbelt NRM for a Small Community Grant in 2012 for their “River Guardians” project.

In 2011 an area of Salmon Gum woodland in Quairading Nature Reserve was found to be infested with slender ice plant, a succulent, annual herb that creates a mini saline environment around itself.