The Natural News
Publication of Central North Field Naturalists Inc.
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From late 2017 articles will be available in .pdf format as complete issues of The Natural News.
June 2024: We have started adding earlier editions dating from May 2017 in reverse order. So far 3 older editions have been added.
- No. 87 - May 2024 (forthcoming)
- Revegetation at Fossil Bluff - Peter Lawrence
- Smallest ever liverwort? - Tom Thekathyil
- Eponyms—why are we still naming wildlife after people? - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 86 - December 2023
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- Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata – a new genus and species of myxomycete from Tasmanaia - Sarah Lloyd
- The farmer and the flower: a fable - Bob Mesibov
- A case of mistaken identity - Tom Thekathyil
- Genetic sequencing and iNaturalist - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 85 - August 2023
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- Of Ancient Origins: The Family Proteaceae - Philip Milner
- Hibbs pyramid - Richard Ashby
- Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata, a new genus of myxomycete - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 84 - April 2023
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- Fauna (Footage of animals using natural areas) Camera - Simon van der Veen
- Spyridium obcordatum at Hawk Trap Hill - update November 2022 - Phil Collier
- Evening with the Birds, Tasmanian Arboretum 16 February 2023 - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 83 - December 2022
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- As cute as a cunjevoi - Rod Mcqueen
- Smthton Sewage Ponds - Richard Ashby
- Solastalgia - a new and growing issue - Ian Ferris
- No. 82 - August 2022 (456 kB)
- The management of small reserves: implications for small marsupials - Philip Milner
- Fire regimes - Ian Ferris
- Robins 2020 - update - Sarah Lloyd & Hazel Britton
- Congratulations Phil Collier
- No. 81 April/May 2022 (520 kB)
- Lake Peddar - Richard Ashby
- Venom - Sarah Lloyd
- Figuring out the Lamprodermas - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 80 December 2021 (413 kB)
- Botanical Art - June Hilder
- A Trip to Marrawah - Richard Ashby
- A New Slime Mould Genus? - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 79 August 2021 (555 kB)
- Mysterious Marshes - Philip Milner
- Identifying Sun Orchids - Robin Garnett & Phil Collier
- Keystone Species - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 78 April 2021(342 kB)
- Tips and Tickles from a U.K. Macrofungi Course - Robin Garnett
- Heathland Plants and their Fungal Associations - Sarah Lloyd
- Wildlife at Westbury Reserve - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 77 December 2020 (380 kB)
- Following in the Footsteps of Michael Sharland and Brigadier Hugh Officer to the Northern Territory - part 2 - Richard Donaghey
- A Scribble about Scribbles - Ian Ferris
- CNFN Flame Robin 2020 Project - Hazel Britton
- Amorous Bluetongues - Sarah Lloyd
- My Experience with Biological Monitoring - Phil Collier
- Sugar Gliders - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 76 August 2020 (309 kB)
- Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea - Hazel Britton
- Bird observations at 'Feathertop', Summer 2019-2020 - Philip Milner
- Following in the footsteps of Michael Sharland and Brigadier Hugh Officer to the Northern Territory - Richard Donaghey
- No. 75 April 2020 (356 kB)
- Towards Carnivory? A Question for the Stylidium - Ian Ferris
- Beguiled by Galls Part 3 Galls of Tasmania - Rod McQueen
- Cutting it fine in Costa Rica - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 74 December 2019 (321 kB)
- Natural Plant Protection - Ian Ferris and Philip Milner
- Beguiled by Galls, Part 2 - Rod McQueen
- Fake News - Thismia rodwayi is not a saprophyte - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 73 August 2019 (319 kB)
- The Sun, the Earth and the platypus - Dr James Macgregor
- Beguiled by Galls - Rod McQueen
- No. 72 April 2019 (523 kB)
- Plants of the herblands, Narawntapu National Park - Philip Milner
- Summary of the fire forum at Campbelltown, August 2018 - Sue Gebicki
- Tubifera species at Black Sugarloaf - Sarah Lloyd
- Vale Rob Alliston
- No. 71 December 2018 (516 kB)
- Plants of Narawntapu National Park - Philip Milner
- Course on Identifying Fungi in Scotland - Robin Garnett
- Observations of Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos in Westbury - Martha McQueen
- Plasmo - a vigorous fungivorous plasmodium - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 70 August 2018 (310 kB)
- Book Review: Beginner's guide to orchids of northwest Tasmania - Martha McQueen
- Rodenticides, rodents and raptors - Ron Nagorcka
- Observations of a Bassian Thrush - Linda Barker
- Reedy Marsh Conservation Reserve - Sue Gebecki
- How old? - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 69 April 2018 (339 kB)
- Wildlife by Kayak - Richard Ashby
- 2018 Year of the Bird
- Masked Lapwings - Sarah Lloyd
- Fluffy the 'Brancher' - Sarah Lloyd
- The Jacky Winter - Richard Donaghey
- No. 68 - December 2017 (414 kB)
- The Eastern Barred Bandicoot - Rod McQueen
- Eastern Barred Bandicoots in the Weegena Area - Jim Nelson
- Me and the EBB - Ron Nagorcka
- Hop Bitterpea - Sue Gerbicki
- Green Rosellas - what do they eat? - Sarah Lloyd
- No. 67 - September 2017 (412 kB)
- The CNFN Herbarium
- Newfoundland - Jim Nelson
- Myxomycetes in the Treeferns - Sarah Lloyd
- Drained swamp? - Ron Nagorcka
- No. 66 - May 2017 (1.07 MB)
- Pink Barnacles on Pumice: additional information - Hazel Britton, Sarah Lloyd and Julie Serafin
- Sixteen Legs - Book Review by Jim Nelson
- No Birds But Lots of Frogs - Letter to the Editor - Richard Ashby
- Iridescence - Sarah Lloyd
- Syridium obcordatum at Hawk Trap Hill - Phil Collier
- No. 65 - January 2017(341 kB)
- Nature Conservation in Aotearoa New Zealand - June Hilder
- Some birds of Aoteraroa New Zealand - Sarah Lloyd
- ECHIDNA extraordinary egg-laying mammal - Book Review by Sue Gebicki
- Tasmania's only tree orchid - threatened? - Ian Ferris and Philip Milner
- Habitat conservation for the giant freshwater lobster - Todd Walsh
- CNFN Life Members: Jim Nelson, Ron Nagorcka and Sarah Lloyd
- No. 64 - September 2016 (661 kB)
SPECIAL ISSUE - DROUGHTS, FIRES AND 'STORMAGEDDONS':
THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF EXTEME WEATHER
- Are the 2016 Highland fires a sign of things to come? - Nick Fitzgerald
- Impact of 2016 fires on Mole Creek karst - Deb Hunter
- Damned fauna - Sarah Lloyd
- Soil Biology 2 - Sue Gebicki
- No. 63 - April 2016 (678 kB)
- Campynema lineare, neither lily nor iris - Phil Collier
- Pink barnacles on pumice - Hazel Britton & Julie Serafin
- Platypus health and conservation research in the Inglis River catchment - James Macgregor
- Soil Biology 1 - Sue Gebicki
- No. 62 - December 2015 (641 kB)
- A fallen Stringybark - Sarah Lloyd
- The feathered tribes of Van Diemen’s Land - book review - Jim Nelson
- Lesser Wanderer - Hazel Britton & Alison Parks
- Tiny Worlds - Sarah Lloyd
- Sue’s garden - a painting - Jo Lawrence
- Herbicides for roadside management - Herbert Staubmann
- No. 61 - August 2015 (645 kB)
- Adventures in New Guinea: a dream fulfilled - Richard Donaghey
- Launceston Environment Centre - Peter Sims
- A creed for nature lovers - Ellis Troughton
- Sugar Gliders - Sue Gebicki
- No. 60 - April 2015 (695 kB)
- Tasmania's bush birds – a bleak outlook - Sarah Lloyd
- Tasmania’s bush birds – additional observations - Jim Nelson & Richard Ashby
- Observed connection between European wasps and willow trees - Sue Gebicki
- No. 59 - December 2014 (575 kB)
- The search for the Golden Fagus 2 - Paul Edwards
- Making a difference in urban bushland - Hazel Britton & Patricia Ellison
- Collembola at Black Sugarloaf - Andy Murray
- where the slime mould creeps: book review - Tom Thekathyil
- The Cape Broom psyllid
- bird observations at Birralee - Sue Gebicki
- No. 58 - August 2014 (689 kB)
- The search for the Golden Fagus 1 - Paul Edwards
- A subterranean liverwort - Tom Thekathyil & Phil Collier
- Fungi season - Sarah Lloyd
- Platypus health and conservation research update - James Macgregor
- Book Reviews:
Read C & Slattery B: Mosses of dry forests in south eastern Australia
Gates G & Ratkowsky D: A field guide to Tasmania fungi
McMullan-Fisher, Leonard P & Guard F: Australian subtropical fungi
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