2012-03-31: Chermside Hills Foray

After an extremely successful foray last year, QMS will be returning to Bellthorpe for an entire weekend of fantastic fungal fun. Situated west of the Glass House Mountains, Bellthorpe is about 98 km (or 90 min drive) north-west of Brisbane CBD. The site features pristine rainforest and farmland. Bookings are essential and places are filling…

Foray Report: Cunningham’s Gap (27th May) Members are asked to bring something of interest, for example specimens, a book, or to speak briefly about such things as an interesting web site or a favourite species, etc..

The Ben Bennett Bushland Park is one of the few remaining remnant bushland areas in the heart of Caloundra. It features walking tracks which guide visitors through the vegetation communities of Melaleuca and Eucalypt forests, coastal heaths and one of the few areas of coastal lowland vine forest. This is the first time that the…

Situated on the north side of Brisbane, Murrumba Downs John Oxley Reserve is an interesting site with a variety of habitats, ranging from dry Eucalypt forest to pockets of rainforest and mangroves. For more information about the foray, go to our Calendar of Events.

This is a Citizen Science event open to individuals, families, schools, nature photographers and whoever else would like to be involved. Over a 48 hour period (day and night), we will seek and identify as many animals, plants and fungi as possible on private and Council land, taking care to cause minimal disturbance. Experts will…

Pam O’Sullivan of the Central Coast Fungi Group is organising a 4 day Bolete identification workshop directed by Dr Roy Halling. Roy is an eminent mycologist specialising in Boletes who is visiting from the USA. The dates for the workshop are 3/4/5/6th of March, to be held at the Ourimbah campus of the University of…