MAIN BRANCH JULY MEETING REPORT. Our speaker was Renae Boyd, who is the Community Organiser with Partnership for the Outback. Renae has a BSc (Hons) in Conservation Biology from UWA and is currently completing a Masters in Environmental Management through Charles Darwin University. About twenty years ago, the West Australian ...
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NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH JULY MEETING REPORT. The term “snake charmer” took on a new meaning when long-time Club member, Gane Doyle Jnr. entertained his audience with stories and slithering exhibits at our July meeting. Gane and his father, Gane Snr. have had a long association with the Club and were ...
Read more →July KRM Branch Report. The speaker for our July meeting was Bob Goodale, who presented a slideshow of flora and fauna encountered on a Coates Wildlife Tour of Costa Rica in late 2017. Bob commenced by explaining that he has had a long-time fascination with tropical birds. He showed us ...
Read more →Northen Suburbs Branch, July 2018 It was very pleasing to have four new faces on our walk, including two who saw the event on Meetup. Due to the possibility of a storm in the late morning/early afternoon we adjusted the walk to include an option of a one-way, downhill excursion ...
Read more →KWINANA/ROCKINGHAM/MANDURAH BRANCH REPORT. The KRMB anniversary breakfast was well attended with 15 members meeting at the Rockingham Golf Club on July 22, a cool but otherwise fine morning. It was especially good to catch up with Anne and Otto Mueller again. A hearty breakfast was enjoyed together with a steady ...
Read more →Kings Park fungi researcher Dr Matt Barrett has asked to be contacted if anyone in WA comes across any fresh Stonemaker fungi: Laccocephalum species. Stonemakers are the amazing ‘fire fungi’ that pop up from a sclerotium, a tuber-like hyphal mass sometimes incorporating soil particles, hence the common name ‘stonemaker’. They ...
Read more →Paperback | August 2018 | RRP $ 49.99 | CSIRO Publishing 280 pages | 215 x 148 mm | Colour photographs, illustrations After many years in the making, the long-awaited first definitive guide to Australia’s native bees is here, authored by one of the most erudite of Australia’s native bee ...
Read more →Waychinicup Granite and Kingias¦Photo: JoHn On the first day at Cheyne’s we went for a stroll, along the road, towards Tourist Rocks, often stopping, as we spied many interesting plants including Baxter’s Banksia (Banksia baxteri) just finishing flowering and Scarlet Banksia (Banksia coccinea) commencing, showing their brilliant scarlet blooms. The ...
Read more →On a very pleasant morning on June 24 a good turnout of nine members plus three visitors attended a Fungi Walk in Paganoni Reserve, the southern-most reserve in the chain that make up the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. Good rains throughout June, including heavy falls during the preceding week, meant ...
Read more →GOLLY! The Baigup Wetlands lived up to its name midway through our planned walk! The forecast of up to 30mm of rain deterred most of our regulars but first-time walkers, Terri and Kim Richardson, joined Alex Saar and myself as we started our expedition in fine weather. I was surprised ...
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