TALKS          EXCURSIONS and OTHER ACTIVITIES for 2009
   To check up on the location of branches and the time of meetings go to our Branches page
For a map of locations, go to our up-coming events page

Date	Speaker	Subject	Branch
February 5	Eric McCrum	Christmas Island	Murdoch
February 12	Eric McCrum	Butterflies, Winged Beauties	Armadale
February 10	Mark Brundrett	Wheatbelt Orchids	Perth
February 24	Erik Veneklaas	Wandoo Decline	Northern Suburbs
February 24	Chris Dunne	Lets Stop a Biological Bulldozer: Phytophthora Dieback	Darling Range
February 27	Greg Keighery	Weeds of WA	Eastern Hills
March 5	Phil Ladd	Chile	Murdoch
March 10	Malcolm French	Eucalypts	Perth
March 12	Michael Morcombe	Whales and Birds aboard TS Leeuwin & AGM (see "Where we meet" for new venue)	Armadale
March 24	Kevin Thiele	Why do the #%@# Taxonomers Keep Changing Names	Northern Suburbs
March 24	Eric McCrum	Barking Up the Right Tree; Fascinating Structure & Function of Native Plants	Darling Range
March 27	Kevin Thiele	Dryandras/Banksias	Eastern Hills
April 2	Eddy Wajon	Exmouth and the Pilbara	Murdoch
April 9	Nina McLaren	Southern Portion of Bibbulmun Track	Armadale
April 14	Katrina Syme	Fungi of the South Coast	Perth
April 24	Allen Lowrie	Expeditions to Cape York Peninsula in Search of Carnivorous Plants	Eastern Hills
April 28	Martin Revell	The Avon River Care Project	Northern Suburbs
April 28	Joan Francis	Flora of the Jarrah Forest	Darling Range
May 7	Edwina Hollander	Antarctica	Murdoch
May 12	Hazel Dempster	Cultivation of Native Flora	Perth
May 14	Eddy Wajon	Exmouth and the Pilbara	Armadale
May 22	Joan Francis	Kulin Wildflowers	Eastern Hills
May 26	Kevin Seaton	Managing Nutrients and Irrigation in Waxflowers	Northern Suburbs
May 26	Charles Soord	Forest and Waterways Management in the Czech Republic, their Implications for WA	Darling Range
June 4	Bronwen Keighery	Whicher Range	Murdoch
June 9	Russell Barrett	Sedges	Perth
June 11	Tony Start	When is a parasite not a parasite?	Armadale
June 23	Eddy Wajon	The Role of the WA Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group	Northern Suburbs
June 23	Matthew Barrett	A New Family Tree for Native Waxflowers, Featherflowers and Bellflowers	Darling Range
June 26	Chris Dunne	Dieback	Eastern Hills
July 2	Members' Slide Night		Murdoch
July 14	Geoff Woodall	Wild Australian Foods	Perth
July 24	Matthew Barrett	A New Family Tree for Native Waxflowers, Featherflowers , Bells and their relatives	Eastern Hills
July 28	Jim Barrow	Global Warming and its Consequences	Darling Range
July 28	Rob Davis	Bird Corridors for Gnangara Sustainability	Northern Suburbs
August 6	Greg Simpson	Verticordia Studies	Murdoch
August 11	Robert Powell	Leaf and Branch	Perth
August 25	Kevin Thiele	Plant Genetics and its Influence on Taxonomy	Darling Range
August 25	Kathryn Horton	Tuning in to Flowers – Flower Essences of Dirk Hartog Island, Mt Leseur and Warwick Open Space	Northern Suburbs
August 28	John Viska	Historic gardening with native plants in Australia	Eastern Hills
September 3	Margaret Langley	Plants of the Wheatbelt	Murdoch
September 8	Pat Dundas	Orchids of the South West	Perth
September 22	Wilderness Society	Great Western Woodlands	Darling Range
September 22	Mike Lyons	Biological Survey of the Kimberley Islands	Northern Suburbs
September 25	Kevin Griffiths	Fungi	Eastern Hills
October 1	Judy Fisher	Weeds, Fire & Banksia Woodland	Murdoch
October 13	Digby Growns	Native Plant Breeding Programme at King’s Park	Perth
October 27	Una Bell	Native Grasses	Darling Range
October 27	Dave Bright	Flora of New Caledonia	Northern Suburbs
November 5	Damian Laird	Chemotaxonomy and chemical ecology of Australian seaweeds	Murdoch
November 10	Bronwen & Greg Keighery	New Flora Discoveries on the Swan Coastal Plain	Perth
November 24	Stephen Gates	The Nature Reserves Preservation Group (Inc.) & AGM	Darling Range
November 24	Jim Barrow	Climate Change and the End of Life as We Know It	Northern Suburbs
December 3	Members' Slide Night	& AGM	Murdoch
December ?		Christmas Social (Date & Place to be confirmed)	Darling Range

Excursions and Activities

Date	Meeting Place and/or Activity	Contact	Branch
Each Month Start at 8am	Free monthly guided nature walks. Run approx 1 hour. See seasonal changes in plant & animal life in your bushlands
1st Saturday	Landsdale Conservation park behind Landsdale Rd, approx 100 metres east of Evandale Rd, Darch	Phylis; phone/fax 9349 9105	Northern Suburbs
2nd Saturday	Koondoola Regional Bushland. Meet Koondoola Avenue opposite Burbridge Ave	Elizabeth; phone/fax 9342 0616	Northern Suburbs
3rd Saturday	Lake Gwelup Reserve. Meet Scout Hall Carpark near tennis courts, Huntriss Rd, Gwelup	Christine; phone/fax 9447 2983	Northern Suburbs
4th Saturday	Star Swamp Bushland. Meet Henderson Centre at end of Groat Street, North Beach	Christine; phone/fax 9447 2983	Northern Suburbs
5th Saturday	Trigg Bushland. Meet in carpark between St Mary's School & Millington Reserve (off Elliot Rd), Karrinyup	phone/fax 9448 9192	Northern Suburbs