2012-05-26: Cunningham’s Gap

School Holiday Activity: The ENVIRO DETECTIVES are back at the Cubberla Witton Catchments Network Centre! Enviro Detectives Tristan Truffle and Pixie Cap invite all keen young forensic scientists to investigate the secretive world of mushrooms. They’ll have a closer look at witches’ butter and fairy rings, examine spores, figure out how the fungi cap got…

The Role of Fungi in Rainforest Regeneration (Working with Fungi in restoring Habitat). When: 6 June, 2014, 2.00pm to 5.00pm Where: The Conference Room, Byron Shire Council Admin. Building, Station Street, Mullumbimby, NSW. Program: Powerpoint slideshow for about 45 minutes with questions. Afternoon tea – provided Hands-on trying to identify specimens into their morpho-groups or…

Robert Ashdown will be presenting “Fungal Photography” Robert is a keen photographer and naturalist who works for Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Go to Robert’s website…

This will be a hands-on workshop for beginners who want to learn more about collecting, processing and identifying specimens. There will be an emphasis on how to write good descriptions. To be held at the Uniting Church Hall at Maleny. Time: 9.30am – 2.30pm Cost: $10 All places for the workshop have been filled, but…

Andrew Franks will be presenting The Wonderful World of the Bryophytes. The bryophytes, a collective term for moss and moss-like plants, are the second most speciose group of land plants in the world often forming a conspicuous component of many ecosystems. However, they are rarely included in floristic assessments of sites and not treated with…

Please note that we have changed the date owing to the tides. The foray will now take place at 9.30 on Saturday 6 July. Foray Information – for more information, [CLICK HERE].