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October 2018
Brief adventures of a plant ecologist in northern Spain: siliceous secrets and calcareous curiosities
Chris Lusk (University of Waikato and Senior Editor of the New Zealand Journal of Botany) presents another in our series of evening talks. He promises us some botanical glimpses of an “Atlantic” forest at Fragas do Eume in Galicia, and of several vegetation types of Soria province in Castile – with a few cultural and historical digressions along the way. Plus there will be wolves and gazpacho. All welcome (gold coin donation to help with venue expenses) Venue : The…
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McLaren Falls Park – Bits and pieces (with Rotorua Botanical Society)
Leaders: Graeme Jane & Gael Donaghy 07 5703123 gtjane@kinect.co.nz. Meet : The carpark Rotorua at 8.30am or McLaren Falls at 9:30am Grade : Easy to moderate. All routes well formed or across pasture with steeper bits stepped. Four forest remnants, each with a different flavour. The first is a small area of forest containing swamp maire (easy); the second a gully walk through remnant lowland podocarp forest (easy to moderate); the third another gully walk through some beech forest to a site containing…
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