FOBIF July 21 walk: Drummond North/Fryers Nature Conservation Reserve

Starting on the Old Drummond Road, we’ll take a route centred on Nener Track. This short, pretty track is the site of abundant populations of two rare plants—Round-leaf Flat Pea and Fryerstown Grevillea. The route will give walkers a chance to look at three areas burned respectively in 2008, 2009 and 2012. That’s not as depressing as it sounds, because recovery has been startling, and the comparisons are revealing. It’s a moderately short route, but it’s pretty hilly around there, so there’ll be the odd rise and fall. About 5-6 kms. Bernard Slattery 0499 624 160