Welcome to the Website
for the
North Lancashire Naturalists Group

Here you can find details of our forthcoming meetings and activities, our Committee, contact our Recorders or take a look through the selection of articles and documents that we are gradually publishing.

OUR FORUM - Join in or start discussions, publish your photos that you want to identify or just to share.  You can view our Forum easily either as a guest just to view, or to submit topics as a member. Joining is easy and simple and your details are kept both safely and securely.

If you would like to submit an article for publication please click here and we will be very happy to publish your article.

Also please submit any articles for the Newsletter to the Editor "if possible" before the 15th December here.
Some Recorder results are not able to be completed before the end of the year and therefore cannot be submitted earlier than January.

Also please feel free to submit to the Newsletter Editor any field meeting articles, articles of special interest, holidays or unusual events are also very welcome.

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The Lancashire Biodiversity Action Plan may be accessed by clicking here with the Action Targets available as a download from the link on the left-hand menu.

FEBRUARY

Sun 7 - Working party: Heysham Nature Reserve: see Sept 6th

Fri 12 - Annual General Meeting. Treasurer’s report.

(Nominations for the General Committee should reach the Secretary by 30 January.) Followed by a talk by Trevor Piearce from the University of Lancaster titled "Come to Terms with Worms".

Sun 21 - Working party: Warton Crag: see Oct 17

MARCH

Sun 7 - Working party: Heysham Nature Reserve: see Sept 6th

Fri 12 - Dragonflies of Lancashire by Graham Jones, WTL Reserves Officer

Our full winter programme is shown on the Events Programme page.
 

 

 

The indoor meeting on Friday 13th March 2009 was by Maurice Steele titled Cumbrian Ramble in Search of Orchids. It was both entertainig and informative and a very good reminder of the excellent scenery that we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep.

For information on British orchids in general please take a look here and for Cumbrian orchids in particular take a look at the Cumbrian Wildlife site by clicking here.

 

We enjoyed a very interesting talk by Dr. Pippa Rayner on Haymeadow Restoration in the Yorkshire Dales on Friday 13th. Feb. 2009 If anyone would like to find out more about her work with the Yorkshire Dales Millenium Trust, details are available at the website www.ydmt.org with details of the Hay Time project available as a download from the link shown on the lefthand menu.