The Margaret River Conservation Farming Club would like to thank Naturalists’ Club member who helped us re-establish our six pit-trap fauna survey lines at Glenbourne. This has laid the way for the resumption of our trapping on 12-14th October after some years of inaction. We have almost a decade of trapping data, starting in 1996, much on four surveys a year, and some with just the spring survey. Brushtail and Western Pygmy Possums are often seen, also much more rarely Dunnarts and a Honey Possum. Phascogales seem to have come back. Our on-going fox-baiting program has probably helped.
Glenbourne is a 128 ha property on Ellen brook, just upstream from the National Park and about 2kms from the coast. A majority of the property is remnant bushland with a range of soil and environment types, with Karri forest and open Jarrah woodland. We have a 3-year grant of $31,000 from the Federal Biodiversity Fund to help control Arum Lilies and other environmental weeds, especially in the half of our area burnt by the November fire.
There is a weed control weekend on Sept 15-16th to which Nats Club people would also be welcome, if they bring a garden fork, preferably, or a garden hoe, for manual lily control.
Anyone else interested in helping with the fauna surveys or in the on-going environmental weed control can contact Bruce Robinson, at Secretary@MRCFC.org.au or 9384 7409.