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.
Weeding with a View – 2nd Take (16/07/2023)
Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) will host another working bee at the beautiful ridge and former sheep camp. Come along and help removing weeds by hand at this popular site. When: Sunday 16 July, from 1pm to 4pm; give as much time as you want. Where: The old sheep camp
A-bit-of-everything Working Bee (18/06/2023)
Friends of Mt Majura will be hosting a working bee on Sunday, 18 June along the watercourse close to the Hackett water tank. The area has been significantly improved thanks to volunteers weeding, planting, mulching and direct-seeding native grasses over the past year. At this working bee, we will plant
FoMM Newsletter May 2023
Canberra Tree Week ends on 7 May – FoMM Tree Walk This dedicated week showcases Canberra’s beautiful, unique and exceptional trees and forests in a program including guided walks, talks, exhibitions and film screenings. Link to the full program here Unfortunately, we have had to cancel FoMM’s guided tree walk scheduled
Weeding with a View (21/05/2023)
Many people enjoy walking or running up the Casuarina Track and the views from the ridge where Casuarina Track joins the summit track. Wooden benches and fallen logs invite rests and picnics are popular with families. Twenty years ago the saddle was a treeless expanse covered with horehounds, thistles and
