Searching for fungi near log at Nanga Bushcamp Twenty one Naturalists converged on the area on Friday 15 June. The weather had been fairly wet for the previous week. Our journey down to Nanga through a swathe of toppled branches and damaged forest trees showed us just how severe the previous ...
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Rebecca Hamilton, one of a team of rangers from DEC (the Department of Environment and Conservation) working in our local National Parks, presented us with a talk entitled ‘The Parks of the Hills and How We Range Them’. Rebecca introduced us to the eight parks in which she has responsibilities. ...
Read more →Trip to Dairy Wells, Cue from the 10th August 2012 From the 10th August for about a week seven of us spent varying amounts of time at Dairy Wells, a leased property near Cue, belonging to Rosalie and Geoffe Barritt.. Unfortunately flu and funerals depleted the numbers and shortened the ...
Read more →Our annual breakfast was again held at the Rockingham Golf Club. The Club is next to the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park, Lake Cooloongup, which is looking very lush and healthy at the moment and kangaroos were grazing on the fairway. There were eighteen of us, including Ann and Otto Mueller ...
Read more →KRM Branch Meeting, 20 Jul 2012 The guest speaker for the July meeting was Dr. Nick Dunlop from the Conservation Council of Western Australia and the topic was Climate change responses in West Australian seabirds and microbats. It is generally accepted that climate change is occurring but what is not ...
Read more →Many ‘tricks of the trade’ were revealed to us when Gerhard Saueracker took us underwater and then to the wilds of Canada in his search for the perfect photo. Initially, Gerhard focussed on scuba photography and the wonders of the briny – and what wonders! Because of the poor lighting ...
Read more →The guest speaker for the June meeting was Dr. Brian Chambers from the University of Western Australia and the topic was Fauna Underpasses and the Brush-tailed Phascogale, a UWA Research Project. It has become common practice to install underpasses to help reconnect populations of fauna that have been fragmented by ...
Read more →The weekend started with the arrival of the first visitors, Margaret and Stan Telford, always the early birds. People continued to come during the day and the last arrival turned up after dark. The weather was very mixed with a lot of rain in the morning so some people cancelled. ...
Read more →We had fantastic turn-out for our Young Naturalists’ Fungi Foray in June, when over 30 children, along with parents and grandparents, spent a beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon at Bold Park. Melissa Mykytiuk, from the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority (BGPA), who manage Perth’s two largest A-class reserves, Kings Park and ...
Read more →Our May meeting was a members’ night and we were pleased to have three visitors from the Main Branch come to visit us: John and Maureen Gardener and Margaret Larke. The evening started with a computer-projector problem so we had to make do with the laptop. Bob Goodale took the ...
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