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Quarterly Bulletin No 327 July 2007 
The Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club encourages the study of natural history and supports conservation. 
People of any age and background are welcome as members. 
For further information, visit our website httn://w\vw.tasfieldnats.org.au : write to GPO Box 68, Hobart, 
7001; or phone our president, Janet Fenton, on (03) 6239 6443. 
Programme 
General Meetings start at 7:45pm on the first Thursday of the month, in the Life Science Building at the 
University of Tasmania. Outings are usually held the following weekend, meeting outside the Tasmanian 
Museum and Art Gallery entrance in Macquarie Street. Bring lunch and all-weather outdoor gear. 
If you are planning to attend an outing but have not been to the prior meeting, please check details. Phone 
Janet Fenton (03) 6239 6443 as unforeseen changes sometimes occur. 
Thu, 2 Aug 
Meeting 7.45pm in Life Sciences building, University of Tas. 
Our guest speaker will be Bill Brown, talking to us on Raptors of Tasmania. 
Sun, 5 Aug 
Excursion with Bill Brown to his Lucaston property (in Tasmania's Huon Valley) where 
he rehabilitates raptors such as Wedge-tailed Eagles and Goshawks. 
Thu, 6 Sept 
Meeting 7.45pm in Life Sciences building, University of Tas. 
Peter MacFie will talk on the history of Recherche Bay and the French garden. 
8 or 9 Sep 
Excursion; details yet to be finalised. 
Thu, 4 Oct 
Meeting 7.45pm in Life Sciences building, University of Tas. 
Ecologist and TFNC member Mark Wapstra will tell us about the rare Thismia rodwayi. 
6 or 7 Oct 
Excursion with Mark, looking for Thismia on the slopes of Mt Wellington. 
Thu, 1 Nov 
Meeting; with Krystyna Saunders presenting Diatoms in core sediments. 
Excursion to Lachlan, 6 May 2007 
Report by Michael Driessen 
15 members including four children met at the museum car park at 9.30am on a chilly Sunday morning. The 
mountain could not be seen for the thick grey clouds and rain was likely to fall at any moment. We took 
some comfort from the forecast that the weather would improve during the day. Our next rendezvous was at 
Lachlan, 45 minutes later, where we met Ian Picken and his son Jake who took us to the property of John and 
Colleen Graham. John and Colleen had planted a rainforest garden nearly 30 years ago. It was a very 
picturesque setting with the rainforest nestled around one side of a pond and there were buildings made of 
split shingles. 
The rainforest was dominated by manfems Dicksonici antcirctica and included many common rainforest 
species such as myrtle Nothafugus cunninghamii, celery-top pine Phyllocladiis aspleniifolius, sassafras 
Atherospermum moschattm and a one-metre tall huon pine Lagarostrobus franklinii. There was an 
impressive 4m tall Richeapandanifolia and cushion plants. A maze of foot paths weaved through the 
rainforest. Ian told us that Lachlan is in Mt Field’s ram-shadow and the garden was made possible by a 
natural spring. The weather was brisk and light drizzle fell throughout the visit highlighting the colours of 
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