Mike Freeman from the WA Department of Mines and Petroleum spoke to us about dune mobility and geo-hazards. In particular, he referred to the mobile sand dunes of our Midwest coast and their impacts on infrastructure. Mike has worked in some very remote and lonely places, in a wide variety ...
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The Branch Chairperson filled in for a missing speaker by showing members how microfossils can be used to determine: The age of a rock Where it came from If it could produce oil and gas, and most importantly Has it produced oil or gas? Microfossils are the remains of microscopic ...
Read more →The GOLLY Walk on June 28th was our first in the Star Swamp Bushland, despite our monthly meeting place (the Henderson Environment Centre) being located at its entrance. Star Swamp Bushland is a 96 hectare Class-A reserve comprising four hectares of semi-permanent freshwater lake with paperbark trees and 92 hectares ...
Read more →There is nothing like the announcement of a fungi foray to bring together the hard-core ‘mushroomers’, the curious, and those who just enjoy a day in the bush. Jolanda organised a weekend foray at ‘Cypress Farm’, the property of Kingsley Dixon and Lionel Johnston, on the western scarp between Waroona ...
Read more →At the beginning of the year when planning our calendar of events, this June 24-25th weekend visit to Goodale Sanctuary was envisaged to be primarily focused around fungi. However, the dry start to Perth’s winter has resulted in conditions being far from ideal for fungi. With quite a few members ...
Read more →Over the four days of this excursion, 11 members and two guests came and went at various times to enjoy the delights of Dairy Wells, five kilometres from Cue. Some camped, others caravanned and the remainder slept in vehicles. The weather remained dry; in fact the weather had been dry ...
Read more →Our June meeting was an old-fashioned style of Retired and Leisured Group meeting where each member speaks. In this case their contribution was to be about birds in Western Australia. Robin Roe brought in a copy of N. Cayley’s book What Bird Is That?, to which she was introduced as ...
Read more →Our June meeting saw us return to Naragebup for the evening, where guest speaker Pauline Whitehead delivered a talk on Reptiles. The reason for the venue change was so that Pauline could give us a hands-on experience using the reptiles from the exhibit at Naragebup. The first exhibit she showed ...
Read more →Anne Bellman is the recipient of the 2017 Western Australian Wildflower Society Award. This award is awarded to a person who has advanced the aims of the Society, promoting the value of our natural bushland. Anne has been a member of the WA Naturalist’s Club for 14 years at the ...
Read more →Main Club June Meeting Report Allan Burbidge talked to us about two critically endangered, ground-dwelling parrots: the Western Ground Parrot and the Night Parrot. Allan is a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and over the last 30 years has carried out biological surveys and ...
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