Highly respected club member Jolanda Keeble gained plenty of experience while writing theses for her three degrees but as we learnt, researching, writing and publishing a book provided many new and different challenges. Jolanda admitted she was hooked on the flora of the northern Kwongan area from her first field ...
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Our speaker, Bob Dixon (ex-BGPA), chose a clever but very apt title for his talk. As Bob remarked, ‘Prescribed burning is a contentious issue, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.’ He also commented that ‘…the general public have no idea what effect burning has on ...
Read more →Our GOLLY Walk was planned as a follow up to Bob Dixon’s talk on bushland regeneration after fire and proved Bob knows his stuff. Twelve Nats members and three visitors were guided by members of the Friends of Warwick Bushland (FOWB) around the southwestern part of the reserve before returning ...
Read more →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 →The recent Queens Birthday Honours list included two Club members: Penny Hussey and Kim Sarti. We offer them both our congratulations. Details as follows: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia Ms Bridgit Mary Hussey For significant service to conservation and land management practices in Western ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH EXCURSION REPORT GOLLY WALK: I remember visiting the Channel 7 studios for Telethon thirty years ago. How the site has changed! Today the site is being developed as a new housing estate but fortunately, like our GOLLY walkers in May, the residents will be able to explore ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS MAY MEETING REPORT The first scientific report on Broome’s dinosaur footprints was published in our club’s journal in 1952, (The Western Australian Naturalist, Vol. 3, p82-83). Mr Ludwig Glauert, Director of the WA Museum, reported the discovery by Walter Jones of Broome in 1945 of large impressions “shaped ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS BRANCH April Golly Walk Report City skyline from northern shore of the lake (T Marwood) A perfect windless autumn morning, 24 bird species, some interesting invertebrates and an amphibian made our April GOLLY walk around the northern end of Herdsman Lake an enjoyable and rewarding excursion. Fifteen people ...
Read more →NORTHERN SUBURBS April Meeting Report Amellia (Milly) Formby is a passionate shorebird conservationist with many and varied strings to her bow. She started academic life with a Visual Arts degree from Monash University and worked as a professional tapestry weaver at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne for seven ...
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