Tuart buds

Meetings of members are held twice a year. A General Meeting is held in summer, and the Annual General Meeting is held during winter. There is generally a speaker of note as well as updates on weeding, guided walks, consultation with the City of Stirling, and special projects such as the website and the Tuart mapping project.

Members are advised of details of the meetings in the quarterly newsletter.

Any interested person can attend to meet members and listen to the speaker. However, only members can vote at general meetings. Members are reminded that a family concession is entitled to only two voting memberships.

Our next meeting will be February 26 at the Henderson Resource Centre in Groat Street, North Beach, at 4pm. We will once again host a joint meeting with the Friends of Star Swamp Bushland Inc. Our speaker is Dr Mark Brundrett, who will show his amazing animated photographs of Western Australian orchids.

Orchids have beautiful and sometimes bizarre flowers that use cunning methods to entice pollinators. Dr Brundrett, who is from the Department of Environment and Conservation, will use beautiful colour macro photography to show the intricate structure of these flowers and their relationship to their pollinators. Mark has been preparing a field guide to our over 300 native Orchids and has spent the last three years on a project to conserve the rare orchids of the Western Australian Wheatbelt.

Our last recent meeting, the Annual General Meeting, was held on Sunday, 31st July 2011. The guest speaker was Dr Vic Semeniuk, who spoke on 'Parabolic Dunes'. Parabolic dunes are a hallmark feature of Trigg Bushland, a unique characteristic in Perth urban bushland.

Dr Semeniuk is very well known locally, nationally and internationally in respect of scientific and environmental matters, and is the Senior Vice President of the Royal Society of Western Australia. A precis of his very entertaining and enlightening presentation was published in the Spring newsletter, issued to all members in September.

 

Website development funded by a Department of Environment and Conservation Community Grant for Tuart Conservation and Management. Text and images copyright Friends of Trigg Bushland Inc except as otherwise noted. Website design by Nina McLaren and Peter Peacock 2008