Dr Kevin Mills will speak at the group's monthly meeting.
Kevin is a botanist and ecologist who has lived in the Illawarra for over 45 years and has recently retired from environmental consultancy work.
He is currently working on various projects, including studies of all offshore islands on the South Coast, a field study and book of the ferns of the south coast, and various floristic and rare plant surveys.
He is involved in the rehabilitation of habitat on the Five Islands Nature Reserve off Port Kembla and the regeneration of rainforest at the Minnamurra Rainforest Centre in Budderoo National Park.
Kevin has authored and co-authored several books on plants including Native Trees of Central Illawarra, Rainforests of the Illawarra District and Native Trees of the NSW South Coast.
He is continuing his rainforest studies here and on Norfolk Island, where he is a regular visitor, and on which he has also written extensively, including the book Allan Cunningham: Journal of a Botanist on Norfolk Island in 1830.
He is also Chair of the NPWS South Coast Regional Advisory Committee and sometime member and Deputy Chair of the NPWS State Council.
The group will also have its plant table - you can bring cuttings for identification and see cuttings from other members' gardens. Phill Keane (AusPlants) and Dan Clarke, the group's conservation officer, will talk about the plants and include helpful information on propagation and how to care for them in the garden.
A raffle and supper will follow the talks.
Free. Visitors welcome. 7:30pm for a 7:45pm start.
Enquiries: sutherland@austplants.com.au
Five-Islands. Photo Kevin Mills.
Penguin photo on home page also by Kevin Mills.
