:TLAS (5) Mar ·19EJ6 DEPAR T· E~ )1;;~ \;0;~:1Al: CLSE.VA ION.. R No. EDITED BY: ANNE TAYLOR, MAR. 86 ( ) ILLUSTRATIONS BY: David Hutchison (front cover) Rosemary Opala (p.4,7,11,17) Sue Patrick (p.9) ENQUIRIES TO: Banksia Atlas, W.A. Wildlife Research Centre, P.O. Box 51 , Wanne roo, W.A., 6065 This last newsletter is certainly a "bumper" edition. I've been swamped by wonderfully interesting and informative articles sent in by volunteers. Unfortunately Ross Bradstock's "Plant Population Dynamics Under Varying Fire Regimes" arrived just too late to be included. I will be happy to send a copy of this article to anyone who reque sts it. Very many thanks to contributors for Newsletter No. 5 - Le's Gray, Alf and Esme Salkin, Arnold Berkin, Rosemary Opala, Norma Ali, Rauleigh Webb, Joan Adams, Cyril Henshaw, and Neil Marriott, not forgetting the artists David Hutchison, Rosemary Opala and Sue Patrick. I've really enjoyed reading all the articles sent in for past and present newsletters and hope other people have as well. Accompanying this newsletter is a questionnaire to be filled in by anyone who received a recording kit. The idea is to obtain feedback about the project from those who were on the receiving end, i.e. you the volunteers! If you didn't ever get around to filling in a sheet, don't worry, we're not out to get you! You don't even need to put a name on your reply - although you can if you want to. I'm hoping for a very high return rate so please don't put the questionnaire aside and then forget to do it. FILL IT IN TODAY! - it really will only take a few minutes of your time. Since Newsletter No 4, 2 595 record sheets have been received from the following 166 contributors (includes 59 new contributors). The total number of contributors to date stands at 344. This is about 34% of the 1 003 people who were sent recording kits. Joan & Laurie Adams (37) NSW Steve Dawson (4) WA Norma Ali (34) TAS Joan Dewhurst (3) SA Margaret Allan (2) TAS Doris Dove (4) QLD Jennie Allen (121) WA Greg Drake & Anne Knight (15) NSW Terry & Helen Allen (2) WA WT Dullard (1) VIC Eric Anderson (1) QLD Linn Dyason (6) QLD Robin Andersson (63) WA Robin Elkin (5) NSW P Austin (6) NSW Barbara & Margaret Evans (6) WA Bob & Barbara Backhouse (14) WA Ken Felton (6) TAS Gary Backhouse (8) VIC Lee Fernie (1) WA Betty Ball ingall (60) QLD Ian Fowler (10) NSW Tony Bean (4) QLD Lawrence Frizzell (1) WA Don & Barbara Bellairs (8) WA Mary Gandini (19 ) QLS Graham Bennett (5) QLD Ray Garston (1) WA Jo Benyon (4) ACT Anne Giblin (1) NSW Arnold Berkin (15) VIC John Gibson (40) ACT Doris & Vic Blampey (115) WA Lloyd Gibson . (11) ACT Tony Bloomfield (2) TAS Robert Goodman (7) WA John Blyth (1) QLD Mal Graham (14) WA Beryl & Fred Boase (5) WA Les Gray ( 115) SA RA & J A Boyd (5) NSW Olga Green (2) WA John Boyle (9) WA Murray Haby (102) VIC Keith Bradby & Heather Pearce (31) WA Kate & Mark Hackling (6) WA G Brandt (1) ACT Annette Hallpike (10) VIC Mary Bremner (22) WA Brenda Hammersley (16) WA Peter Bridgewater (6) ACT David Handscombe (2) VIC Lola Broadhurst (5) WA Gary B Hardy (6) QLD Judith Brown (26) WA Paul Harris (2) QLD Dick Burns (17) TAS Cyril Henshaw ( 73 ) VIC Keith & Ann Cairncross (8) NSW Lynne Heywood (7) NSW Peter Cale (6) WA Sheila Hill (39) WA Jim Carpenter (39) TAS Maria Hitchcock (37) NSW Don Carter (4) WA Meri Hitchins (1) WA Bruce Champion (8) TAS Peter Hook (6) WA Arthur & Kathleen Charlton (7) WA Wade Howlett (3) VIC John Chilvers (6) WA Ida Jackson (64) SA Ruth Clark (1) WA Robert Jago (6) QLD Steve Clemesha (24) NSW Brendan Johnston (8) NSW Jeanette Closs (7) TAS Chris Johnstone (7) NSW Phil Collier (45) TAS Wendy Kappelle (16) WA John Conran (23) QLD Morton Kaveney (1) NSW Ron & Margaret Cooper (100) NSW Ian Kealley (36) WA Diana Cordiner (3) NSW Margaret Kelly (2) QLD Colin & Verna Cornford (3) QLD Claire Kennedy (11) NSW Doug Coughran (4) WA Ian Kirwin (6) VIC Ron Cox (6) NSW Matthew Kirwan (8) VIC Jenny Craigen (1) NSW Raymond Lacken (1) QLD Val Crowley (8) WA Penny Leighton (15) WA Rosemary Cugley (5) WA Lenore Lindsay (2) QLD Pat & Thelma Daniell (2) WA Shirley Loney (3) WA Alan Danks (16) WA Enid Lowe (2) WA John Davey (2) WA Neil Marriott (10) VIC .l Cyril Marhsall (3) NSW Andrew & Lois Sourry (7) NSW Gary Martin (4) WA Barb St John (9) SA Peter Mawson (3) WA Don Stallard (2) NT Ian McAllan (12) NSW Helen & Mick Statham (10) TAS Ian McDonald (1) NSW Jim Steenson (3) NSW Olga McGreen (4) WA Norman & Jane Stevens (5) WA Helen McKenzie (8) NSW Trevor Stoneman (5) WA F.C . McNamara (2) WA Margery & Graham Stutchbury (2) OLD Michael Merrony (4) ACT Donna & Peter Summers (13) WA Col Middleton (3) OLD Ted Summers (2) SA Phillipa Middleton (1) SA Katie Syme (4) WA Kevin Mills (111) NSW Tony Tapper ( 25) WA National Park & Wildlife Ser. (17) NSW Paul Taylor (5) OLD Rosemary Opala & Lynda! Thorburn (2) ACT Evelyn Peacock (56) OLD Rosemary & Neville Thorn ( 6 ) WA Sue Palmer (3) WA Ross Thompson (3) NSW Rae & Rodney Papenfus (2) WA David & Helen Tranter (2) NSW Margaret Parris (3) NSW Stephen Van Leeuwen (12) WA Sue Patrick (2) WA Graham Velterop (32) WA Patricia Perrin (3) NSW Ken Veness (1) NSW Max & June Preece (11) VIC Marjorie & Len Wall ( 51) TAS E Pickering (15) NSW Brian Walters (59) NSW Lois Prictor (1) VIC Mr & Mrs B Ward (4) NSW Barry Rick (3) WA Peter & Carolyn Wardle (2) WA Paul & Thelma Roach (47) SA Rauleigh Webb (20) WA Jill Roberts (5) TAS S G Webster ( 2) WA Ed Robinson ( 16) WA Beth Williams ( 16) NSW Alf Salkin (250) VIC Don Williams (12) WA Janet Semmens (3) VIC Pip Williams (4) SA Dave Sieber (2) WA Jim Williamson (8) WA For those who haven't yet made a start, its still not too late. The last records must be received at WANNEROO before August 31 1986. Eastern states people please allow your State Co- ordinators time to check your sheets and send them on to me . Your l ast records should be sent in no later than August 10th Which brings me to the State Co-ordinators. They've done a marvellous job and I definitely couldn' t have survived without them. They ' ve willingly checked through hundreds of record sheets, written letters, answered. queries, visited volunteer recorders, and filled in their own record sheets, and all within their spare time. My sincere thanks go to Paul Taylor, Paul Spratt, Ross Goldingay, Alex George, Alf Salkin, Bruce Champion and Les Gray. How on earth will you fill in those "empty" hours when the project is over? Here at Wanneroo I ' m indebted to Scott Wilson. During the last year, he's regularly taken time off from his university studies to come and grapple with computer printouts, distribution maps and record sheets. In Canberra, thank you to Marjorie May , Joan Hegarty and Jo Benyon who have assisted with distribution of Newsletters and Interim Maps. Finally I would like to thank every contributor who has taken part in the project. I wish I could have met you all but there just hasn' t been enough time. I know you've put a lot into the project, I do hope you 've also got a lot out of it. I wonder how many of you like Rosemary Opala (p. 7) will be instinctively recording banksias for years to come - I know I will be. The end result of this 3 year Banksia Atlas project will be, naturally, a BANKSIA ATLAS, It should be available by late 1987/88. In early 1987 all contributors will be informed of its progress and proposed completion date. ATTENTION QUEENSLAND VOLUNTEERS Paul Taylor, Queensland State Co-ordinator has moved from Bundaberg to Brisbane. His new address is 362 Warrigal Road, Eight Mile Plains, 4123. Phone 07-892 5880 (a/h) • 3 .BANKSIA NEWS NOV. 85 - MAR. 86 by Anne Taylor There has not been time to do a thorough analysis of the latest Banksia distribution maps. The following conunents represent those new sightings, since Interim Maps II, which have been most readily remembered. Apologies to any volunteers who have sent in new sightings but do not get a mention. Your efforts will become apparent in the final analysis. B. conferta var penicillata - N.s.w. - Previously restricted to a few areas within Newnes Plateau, Blue Mountains, a new population has been found some 100 km away near Mittagong by Brian Walters. Brian is willing to show the site to any interested Banksia volunteers. His address is R23 West Wilchard Rd, Castlereagh, 2750, tel: 047 761 360. Brian comments that "In the Supplementary Field Guide, one of the features listed as distinguishing conferta var. penicillata from var. conferta are the serrated mature leaves on the former. My own observations indicate that plants of var. penicillata on Newnes Plateau can have either entire or serrated mature leaves" . B. ericifolia var. macrantha - N.S.W. - Brian Walters has found a few plants as fa1 south as Forster N.S.W. He didn't have time for a thorough search and suggests that volunteers within reach of the area should have a good look,to see if there are any reasonable stands remaining.