Plant Study Group in the Wolgan Valley Plant Study Group in the Wolgan Valley  (Meredith Brownhill)
Plant Study Group - 2020

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The BMCS Plant Study Group (PSG) generally meets on the second Sunday of each month and travels to different locations in the Mountains. Before attending for the first time please contact Meredith by email at mountains@westnet.com.au. Changes to the program appear in red.

Plant Study Group 2020 Program

Fire, flood and the Covid-19 pandemic caused many cancellations and changes to our program this year. All ConSoc activities were formally suspended April-June because of Covid.

Date (2020)

Location

Leader

More info

12 Jan

The Gully, Katoomba

Helen

Report of outing

8 Feb

Lalor Drive, Springwood

Helen

Cancelled - rain

23 Feb

Olympic Park (bus trip)

Meredith

Report of outing

8 Mar

Radiata Plateau, Katoomba

Ray


14 Mar

Hat Hill, Blackheath

Helen


12 Apr

Coachwood Glen, Megalong Valley

Helen

Cancelled - Covid

10 May

Site to be decided

Jo

Cancelled - Covid

14 June

Joint event with BMCC Bushcare

Margaret

Cancelled - Covid

12 July

Wentworth Falls Lake

Lesley


9 Aug

Victory Track, Faulconbridge

Alison


13 Sept

West Glenbrook

Margaret


11 Oct

Dawes Park Reserve, Linden

Helen


8 Nov

Minnehaha Falls, Katoomba

Meredith


13 Dec

Jelena’s place, Woodford

Jelena

Cancelled

2020 Reports

12 January 2020
The Gully, Katoomba – led by Helen Yoxall – 9 present
The Gully is a declared Aboriginal Place under the National Parks & Wildlife Act and is co-managed by the Gully Traditional Owners and Blue Mountains City Council. It is part of the upper catchment of the Kedumba River.

Gargaree Swampcare volunteers with contract help have been working over the years to restore its degraded swamp systems. This was one of the few areas in the mountains not closed because of the bushfires.

On this cool misty morning we walked The Gully Interpretive Walk and the Jacky Brooks Track.

Our walk took us through Eucalyptus oreades open forest and Blue Mountains Sedge Swamp. Little detailed plant study was done today however as members debriefed after a summer of 40 degree days and fires to the north and south of our homes.

8 February 2020
Lalor Drive, Springwood – to be led by Helen Yoxall
Cancelled because of heavy rain and storms.
23 February 2020
Sydney Olympic Park bus trip – led by Meredith Brownhill – 11 present
Due to catastrophic bushfires, National Parks and reserves were closed so Plant Group started the year with a bus trip to Sydney Olympic Park.

We discovered that the Badu Mangroves and Coastal Saltmarsh, with boardwalks and bird hides were another contrasting habitat within the Greater Sydney Basin.

It was easy strolling along the boardwalk in the Grey Mangrove/Avicennia marina forest imagining all the estuarine creatures living in the mud. This habitat is protected under the NSW Fisheries Act with a hefty fine for harming it, as it protects fish communities. Casuarina glauca, Melaleuca styphelioides and Myoporum boninense ssp. australe were also seen.

A short shower of rain made us retreat to the bird hide, where we observed water birds splashing in the Saltmarsh water e.g., Black-winged Stilts & Red-necked Avocets.

Both Coastal Saltmarsh and Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest are Endangered Ecological Communities, amongst the many EECs we see in our Sydney Basin trips.

All in all, it was another happy and successful day out for eleven BMCS members.



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