|
Type |
Date |
Description |
Person/Presenter |
Information |
|
Camp |
5/5/2018 |
LABOUR DAY
WEEKEND
POTTSVILLE
ENVIRONMENT PARK |
Barney Hines |
This excursion to coastal
northern N.S.W. will be based at
the Pottsville Environment Park,
a 54 hectares area of coastal
vegetation adjacent to the
township of Pottsville and set
between the two arms of Cudgera
Creek. Within the Park is a
level camping area adjacent to
the Environment Centre building
which has a large meeting space,
kitchen with refrigerator,
showers and toilets.
There are over 4km of walking
tracks.The main vegetation
communities are based on Swamp
Box, Broad-leaved Paperbark,
Black She-oak, Pink Bloodwood
and Brush Box with Mangrove and
tidal wetland communities along
the creek. A number of
threatened or otherwise
significant plant species have
been identified there.It is
hoped to explore also some
nearby areas such as the marine
life in Cudgera Creek at
Hastings Point and the beach
dune vegetation. |
|
Excursion |
13/5/2018 |
Lloyd Bird
Environmental
Park |
Helen
Schwencke
|
We will
start with a
view of the
Brisbane River
near the Mt
Crosby Weir.
Then we’ll
explore Lloyd
Bird
Environmental
Park, where many
of the native
ground covers
are scarce and
replaced by
invasive
species. The BCC
has a reserve
across the road
called Scriven
St North Reserve
where the ground
covers are more
intact. The
Regional
Ecosystems to be
visited are
described as of
“least concern”. |
|
Excursion |
19/5/2018 |
KOALA
CROSSING reserve
near Peak
Crossing |
Barry
Jahnke |
This day
excursion will
be to the
Queensland Trust
for Nature
reserve, "Koala
Crossing", which
has a common
boundary with
the Flinders-Goolman
Reserve,
north-east of
the township of
Peak Crossing.
In its 562
hectares, it has
at least four
ecosystems in
the woodlands
and open forests
with some
rainforest
understorey. In
recent years
about 800,000
trees have been
planted,
including those
which are known
to be koala food
plants. |
|
Meeting |
21/5/2018 |
C T White
Lecture. The
Life of E. J. “Kalbar”
Smith a
naturalist. |
Dr Darren
Schneider |
Ernest
Smith was born
in England in
1877 and
emigrated to
Australia with
his family in
1887. Though
clever at
school, he had
to forego
schooling
opportunities
and, as a young
plumber, found
himself in the
pioneering
Fassifern
district, and
eventually the
township of
Kalbar.
Encouraged by a
radio broadcast
by The State
Botanist C T
White in the
1930s, he
started studying
plants and with
further
encouragement,
through
correspondence
with C T White,
went on to
become an
accomplished
amateur
naturalist and
local historian.
He was an active
member of the
Queensland
Naturalists’
Club and left a
legacy of dozens
of articles
published in the
Fassifern
Guardian and The
Queensland
Naturalist. |
|
Excursion |
10/6/2018 |
Little
Ugly Creek area,
Moggill Regional
Park |
Helen
Schwencke |
This park
entrance is well
maintained with
relatively low
weed incursion,
with diverse
ground covers.
Our path,
depending on our
walking speed,
may take us
through a number
of different
regional
Ecosystem types
that are of
least concern.
The area we’ll
be exploring
drains into
Kholo Creek,
close to the
Brisbane River.
The nearbyQNC
News 337 7 Mar -
Apr 2018 “Ugly
Gully” was once
a well-known
swimming hole in
the 1960s &
1970, though now
over grown with
invasive plants
and difficult to
access. |
|
Excursion |
16/6/2018 |
City
Botanic Gardens |
Barry
Jahnke & Ross
Muller |
The City Botanic
Gardens are
Brisbane's
heritage Gardens
founded in 1855
on land surveyed
as a botanic
reserve in 1828
and worked as a
convict farm
until 1842. Its
first curator,
Walter Hill, set
about
transforming a
patch of
clear-felled
riparian scrub
into an English
parkland garden
resplendent with
the exotic
Jacaranda and
the
indigenous
Moreton Bay Fig,
and the Bunya
and Hoop Pines.
At the same time
the Gardens
became the
'Cradle
of Queensland
Agriculture' as
Hill trialed a
wide variety of
plants as
potential cash
crops for
farmers.
|
|
Excursion |
14/7/2018 |
Coolum
Beach |
Myriam
Preker and Ian
Lawn |
An
afternoon
excursion. The
low tide is at
14:44; tidal
height 0.04m.
Details in
July-August
news. |
|
Camp |
16/9/2018 |
Annual
long excursion.
Binya National
Park and Bowra
Sanctuary. |
Neil
Fordyce and
Janet White |
The long
excursion for
2018 will be to
Binya National
Park and the
Australian
Wildlife
Conservancy’s
Bowra Sanctuary
near Cunnamulla.
The trip will
comprise a week
at Binya and a
week at Bowra.
Binya is a small
national park
situated on the
Warrego and
Cuttaburra Creek
flood plains
110km South of
Cunnamulla. It
is an isolated
park with few
facilities so
requires some
level of
self-sufficiency.
Binya is not
well surveyed so
QNC can make a
significant
contribution to
the knowledge of
the park.
more on Binya
Bowra Sanctuary
is a 140 km²
nature reserve
near Cunnamulla
in South West
Queensland,
Australia. It
lies in the
Mulga Lands
bioregion on the
Warrego River
plains, in the
catchment of the
Warrego and
Paroo Rivers. |