May 27, 2012
Bushwalking Group – Fred Jacoby Park-North Ledge
- Meet: Car park on your left as you enter from Mundaring Weir Rd
- Time: Walk commences at 10am
- Bring: Lunch, water; suitable clothing and footwear
May 30, 2012
Retired and Leisured Group Meeting
Speaker: Kevin Kenneally
Topic: A botanist’s travels in America
Please advise Margot if coming
June 2, 2012
Darling Range Branch Long Weekend
Trip to the Goldfields area.
Cancelled due to lack of numbers.
June 8, 2012
Darling Range Branch talk
Topic: What fungi taught me about macro photography, plus a fungal foray in
British Columbia
Speaker: Gerrard Saeuracker
Venue: CWA Hall, Central Road, Kalamunda Time: 7:30 pm
Main Club meeting
Main speaker: Greg Keighery, DEC Scientist and Botanist speaking on:-
Weeds: Our problem, other people's Wildflowers
Keighery Collecting in the Pilbara
Weeds are a major problem in natural and agricultural systems over our entire planet. World-wide over 18,000 plants have been recorded as behaving as weeds and over 1,200 are recorded as weedy in Western Australia. Invasive species such as weeds pose one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and are a major cost to agricultural production.
However, before people started agriculture there were no weeds, only native wildflowers, so what is a weed? How many and what types do we have? Where have they come from? What will happen in the future with changing climates? Finally given how many weeds there are, how do we prioritise what weeds to action for biodiversity?
Greg has spent over 30 years documenting the Weeds of Western Australia. He will tell us why this is a fascinating and very useful objective for a Survey Scientist.
Focus: Jess Stubbs, Serventy Memorial Lecture student on The various species of Molluscs that live in Princess Royal Harbour
Nature Photography Group – Lake Gwelup
- Meet: Car Park, Huntriss Street, Karrinyup
- Time: 3.00pm for afternoon tea while we wait for the right light to photograph
- Bring: Macro lenses for fungi, afternoon tea, chair, wet weather gear
ground sheet
June 15, 2012
Main Club Fungi Weekend
Neale Bougher and the Fungi leaders from the Perth Urban Bushland fungi project will be conducting a Fungi weekend at Nanga bushcamp near Dwellingup. Activities will include morning forays searching for fungi in the area and Neale will be conducting a workshop about the fungi that he is currently concentrating on.
KRM Branch Meeting, Native Fauna Research
Speaker: Brian Chambers, UWA
Contact: 9524 2290 for further information.
June 16, 2012
KRM Branch Camp – Goodale Sanctuary
Meet: Drive in and follow signs to the visitors’ car park
Bring: Camping gear, food, cameras, binoculars, torch for night stalk, gum boots.
Note: If you do not wish to camp overnight then attendance on either day is also welcomed
9524 2290 for further information.