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Monthly Weeding Parties – removing non-native species by hand

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Re-seeding and Replanting – giving local species a head start

Welcome to the website of the Friends of Mount Majura. We are a volunteer Park Care Group working to protect and enhance the natural environment on Mount Majura and its surroundings. Explore this website to find out about upcoming events and to learn more about the plants and animals you will encounter on the mountain.

Enjoy a film about the Friends of Mt Majura produced by our guest students from Taiwan during their stay in Canberra in autumn 2022.

  • Environment Grant to Manage St John’s Wort and 3 Evil Grasses

    24 June 2024Environment Grant to Manage St John's Wort and 3 Evil Grasses
    Friends of Mount Majura have been successful in 2024/25 round of ACT Environment Grants. The project supports a Landscape Restoration Weed Management Plan (the Management Plan) which will be worked out by the Office of Nature Conservation (ONC) to control St John’s Wort and the invasive grasses African Lovegrass, Chilean Needlegrass and Serrated Tussock in an ...
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  • Woody Weeds Working Party – 3rd Take (21/07/2024)

    19 June 2024Woody Weeds Working Party - 3rd Take (21/07/2024)
    Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) will host a working party to control woody weeds in the endangered grassy woodlands of Mt Majura’s and Mt Ainslie’s west slopes; this will be our third woody weed working party in a row. When: Sunday, 21 July 2024, from 1.00pm to 4.00pm. Please come early for an introduction of the target ...
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  • FoMM Newsletter – June 2024

    1 June 2024
    Woody Weeds Working Party on Sunday 16 June, 1 – 4 pm Join in the working party of the Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) in the endangered grassy woodlands of Mt Majura’s west slopes on Sunday,16 June 2024, from 1.00pm to 4.00pm. Meet at the nature park entrance off Kellaway Street Car Park at the southern end ...
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  • Tree walk (30/06/2024)

    29 May 2024Tree walk (30/06/2024)
    How to distinguish between a box from a gum? What are the key features of Mt Majura’s main eucalypts? Why grow some trees at a certain place? How do they cope with fire and drought? Join ecologist Michael Doherty for an informative walk to learn about trees and shrubs of Mount Majura, and how to identify ...
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