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CFNC Meeting: Native Grasses and the Moolort Plains

Posted on 4 July, 2012 by fobif

On the evening of 13 July there will be a special Castlemaine Field Naturalist Club meeting where Ern Perkins Central Victoria Grasses Identification Guide CD will be launched and Geoff Park will give a presentation on the Moolort Plains. To find out … Continue reading →

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Get the birds at the AGM

Posted on 23 June, 2012 by fobif

Here’s advance notice that FOBIF’s Annual General Meeting will take place at Castlemaine Continuing Education Centre at 7.30 pm on Monday August 13. After the usual business, there will be a short talk by Damian Kelly on the challenges and … Continue reading →

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Walkers in a Blackened Landscape

Posted on 23 June, 2012 by fobif

The June FOBIF walk led by Doug Ralph was to the remote Tarilta Creek Valley. Readers of this site will know that this area was the subject of controlled burn this Autumn. (See previous FOBIF post.) The day allowed walkers … Continue reading →

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Plant some understorey, check out a weed

Posted on 23 June, 2012 by fobif

FOBIF is planning an understorey planting and weed attack working bee at the famous Chewton Yellow Box on National Tree day, Sunday July 29, from 10 am to 12 noon.                   The … Continue reading →

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Tall Greenhoods are flowering

Posted on 10 June, 2012 by fobif

The Tall Greenhood Pterostylis longifolia is one of 16 local species of Greenhoods. Worldwide there are 120 species with about 100 of these endemic to Australia. Along with other Greenhoods, this one lures insects, usually gnats, to the plant with pheromones. When … Continue reading →

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FOBIF photo show at Tog’s Cafe

Posted on 10 June, 2012 by fobif

The latest FOBIF Mamunya exhibition opened at Tog’s Cafe in Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine last Friday. It runs till the 13 July. The exhibition continues a tradition the Friends started in 1999 with their first Mamunya festival. This word comes from … Continue reading →

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Soil protector: unobtrusive, and undervalued?

Posted on 31 May, 2012 by fobif

FOBIF’s moss group met at the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens last Saturday to move the project further towards its target: to publish a field guide to mosses of the region in Autumn next year. This is not an eccentric interest in … Continue reading →

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World Environment Day to be celebrated this Sunday in Castlemaine

Posted on 29 May, 2012 by fobif

To celebrate World Environment Day in our Shire, an community fair will take place in the Castlemaine Market Building from 9am-1pm on Sunday 3rd June. Whether people are interested protecting our diverse plants and animals, or sustainability initiatives and green technology … Continue reading →

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Places available for Alison Pouliot’s fungi workshop

Posted on 28 May, 2012 by fobif

There are still places available at Alison Pouliot’s Fungi Ecology Workshop this coming weekend in Inglewood. The workshop details are posted at: http://wedderburncmnnews.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/alison-pouliot-fungi-workshops.html

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FOBIF walk to Spring Gully

Posted on 28 May, 2012 by fobif

Eighteen people turned out for the May FOBIF walk led by Barbara Guerin and Lionel Jenkins. The walk was largely focussed on the area’s mining history and Dominique Lavie took a series of terrific photos which are reproduced below. The … Continue reading →

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