Basic First Aid Tips for Bushwalkers with presenter Desiree Heald. Desiree opened her presentation by calling on the audience to participate in a brainstorming session. Drawing a circle containing the phrase ‘Before You Go’ on a whiteboard. Desiree asked audience members for suggestions of things to consider when planning a ...
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Treasurer 2024-
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Hon. Secretary 2014
A talk presented to the Northern Suburbs Branch AUGUST 2020 by PROFESSOR PETER VETH (UWA) As an introduction, Pete briefly reviewed the two postulated options for migration into Australia – via Sulawesi and New Guinea (the northern route), or across the Sahul Shelf from Timor (the southern route) – keeping ...
Read more →Main Club September 2020 The Faceless Cusk. The goggle-eyed Cockatoo Squid. Glass sponges. A living “swirl of spaghetti”. These are some of the truly weird and wonderful creatures that we met at the September meeting. Our speaker was Dr Nerida Wilson, Research Scientist at the WA Museum and Manager of ...
Read more →NS Branch Golly Walk – June 2020 It was great to be able to recommence our monthly Golly Walks with a bracing walk at Ocean Reef that was good for our physical and mental well-being. The downside was, we were there to view the bushland and limestone cliffs that are ...
Read more →Members Night KRM Branch – 20th July 2020 The theme for our July general meeting was a Members’ Night, with two members’ presentations. First up was Barbara Manson. Barbara is also a member of the Seabird Rescue Group and she shared with the meeting images of seabirds that had been ...
Read more →Main Club August 2020 Our speaker was Malcolm French, an agriculturalist, book publisher, associate researcher and Honorary Curator of the genus Eucalyptus at the WA Herbarium. He is a bush traveller and eucalypt chaser and received an OAM in 2015 for Conservation in Agriculture. Malcolm is now a volunteer at ...
Read more →BEACH SWEEP 6 AUGUST 2020 The weather was not at all conducive to a beach excursion. However, eight people braved it, including four children, as well as our three leaders. The storm overnight had left piles of kelp and seagrass for us to fossick amongst. But with rain threatening, we ...
Read more →26 AUGUST 2020 An excellent turnout of 15 members and three visitors, who found us on Meetup, were greeted by Christine, Chris and Danielle from the Friends of Inglewood Triangle. Danielle explained how the triangle of bush was saved by accident when the Mt Lawley Golf Club who owned the ...
Read more →FIELD TRIP 21ST JUNE 2020 – MARRINUP CAMP SITE, DWELLINGUP With everyone keen to emerge from Covid enforced isolation, we had an excellent turnout of 32 attendees for our June field excursion. We were pleased to be joined by members of other branches as well as some visitors from the ...
Read more →Our first Covid-19 fungi foray was held at member Lyn Myles property in Glen Forrest on Sunday 5 July 2020. It is a lovely area of Jarrah bushland, abutting onto National Park. Twenty-seven participants, including 6 Fungi leaders, divided into 3 smaller groups and together found 44 species of fungi. ...
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