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Mount Alexander Shire Biodiversity Strategy – A Critical Opportunity
Friends of Box Ironbark Forests has joined with Connecting Country and the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club to prepare a joint submission on the development of the Mount Alexander Shire Biodiversity...
View Article19 July 2026: Short Walk- Tarrengower
We’ll walk a section on the western side of this curiously complicated mountain, looking for clues as to how it was formed in the distant past. Terrific views to the west, rock platforms, interesting...
View Article19 July 2026 – Long Walk – Tarilta Creek
This will be a loop walk of about 14 km exploring the Tarilta Creek area. It will take about 6 hours including breaks. Highlights will include a lovely mossy gully, two waterfalls which may even have...
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Tarilta Creek Walk Report by Ros Woodburn, 19 July 2026
What a glorious, still, blue Winter ‘s day. A huge thank you to Jeremy Holland, our fearless leader of total 8 walkers for 14km: up and down the tightly knit hills and gullies, along roads, a part of...
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Short walk on Mt Tarrengower (or Dharrang Gawa) report by Liz Martin
A large group set out from the side of Mt Tarrengower on a chilly, but sunny day yesterday for FOBIF’s annual ‘short walk’. Bernard and Deirdre Slattery led the walk ably assisted by our experts,...
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Second report on the Tarilta Creek walk, 21 July 2026
Chris Green has sent a report on FOBIF’s Tarilta Creek walk. We thought we would post this as well as the previous Tarilta Creek report especially as Chris has included some terrific photos. A Foray...
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Walk and plant identification session – this Sunday 16th August at Kalimna...
Whether you are new to the area or new to ecology, this walk is all about where to begin, what to look out for and how to grow your knowledge of local plants and ecological processes in the Castlemaine...
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Report on Kalimna walk Sunday 16th August
It seemed that everyone who turned up for our FOBIF walk today commented on how beautiful the day was – glorious Central Victorian sunshine and a BOM promise of 17O. So it was a happy crowd who...
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Interesting discussion; available online and in person, 6pm 21/9/2026.
https://events.humanitix.com/rsv-burning-off-debate
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Comeback
Hardenbergia is flowering around the region—always a highlight of the approaching spring. What’s extra good about the plants pictured below, though, is that they’ve more or less come back from the...
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