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Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter February 2012 pdf

Screams crime slaughter on Mount Majura?
FoMM meeting – Saturday, 12 February
Working party –  Sunday, 19 February
Ant Walk – Sunday 4 March
More up-coming activities with the Mount Ainslie Weeders and Greening Australia
Two free workshops to extend your skills and knowledge: advanced grant writing & managing native ground-cover

Dear [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter January 2012 (pdf)

Working party – this Sunday, 22 January
Chemical training course
Centenary Trail update
Rabbit program update
Wildlife poaching on Mt Majura
FoMM report for the financial year 2010/11

Dear Friends
Welcome to the January 2012 edition of the FoMM newsletter. I hope you enjoyed a great break and will start the year with recharged [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter December 2011 (pdf)
Pre-Christmas working party – Sunday 18 December
Trail & Tracks – Centenary Trail meetings and submissions
Fire alert
Wood piles along Casuarina Trail
FoMM 2012 plans
Rabbit mappers wanted
FoMM website in the PANDORA Archive of the National Library of Australia
2012-2013 bird survey
Dear Friends
All of a sudden it’s December and Christmas approaches fast. [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter November 2011 (link to pdf)

Rabbit Mapping Volunteer Information Meeting – Tuesday 8th November
Bird Walk – Sunday 13th November
Working Party – Sunday, 20th November

Dear Friends
Meetings were held with the rangers during October and the exciting news is that the rabbit control contractors should [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter November 2011  pdf link

Rabbit Mapping Volunteer Information Meeting – Tuesday 8th November
Bird Walk – Sunday 13th November
Working Party – Sunday, 20th November

Dear Friends
I hope you all will be patient with this November FoMM Newsletter.  In Waltraud’s absence, I am standing in for her to bring you all up to [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) October 2011 Newsletter (pdf)

Spring Working Party – Sunday 16 October
Wildflower Walk – Sunday 30 October
Bird Walk – Sunday 13 November
Woody Weeds Working Party – Sunday 20 November
Native Plant Sale – Saturday 22 October
Weed Swap – Weekend 5/6 November
Review of National Capital Open Space System – closes Friday 28 October

Dear [...]

The three parkCare groups, Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM), Mount Ainslie Weeders (MAW) and Watson Woodland Working Group (WWWG) won the the ACT Landcare Awards 2011 in the Urban Landcare category. Presenting the awards are (from left) Helen Munro and Richard Larson (WWWG), Waltraud Pix (FoMM), Margaret Clough, Jeanette Ruxtun and Annette Martin (MAW) and [...]

Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) September 2011 Newsletter (pdf)
• ACT Landcare Award 2011 Finalist
• What’s up on the Mountain – Share your wildlife photographs and pictures of FoMM activities
• Working party: Caring for seedlings – Sunday 21 September
• Spotlight walk – Saturday 24 September
Dear Friends
Hello and welcome to Spring and the September 2011 edition of the FoMM newsletter. Many [...]

FoMM August 2011 Newsletter (pdf)

Seedling after-care this Sunday 14 August
Working party  – Sunday 21 August
Tree Walk – Sunday 28 August
FoMM stall at the Majura Primary School Spring Carnival
FoMM meeting
Frog Census 2011

Dear Friends of Mount Majura
I’d like to share with you that quite a number of people contacted FoMM to congratulate and to say thank you [...]