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Category: About Mt Majura

More Weeding and Mulching at the old stock camp (20/01/2019)

Waltraud Pix 8 January 2019 13 January 2020About Mt Majura, News

Welcome to the new year and FoMM’s first working party in 2019. We will continue removing horehound at the old sheep camp and mulching previously weeded sites. View various stages of the stock camp improvement at the bottom of this blog. When: Sunday, 20 January, from 9am to about 12noon;…

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ACT Offsets Policy and Delivery Framework – Position Paper

Lance Williamson 14 July 2014 14 July 2014About Mt Majura, News, Reports & Submissions
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FoMM have lodged a submission to the ACT Government’s ACT Offsets Policy and Delivery Framework – Position Paper

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Canberra Nature Map

louisa 7 March 2014 7 March 2014About Mt Majura, Animals, Ants, News, Plants, Wildlife

The Canberra Nature Map project is a repository for park care groups, volunteers and members of the public to report sightings of rare and endangered plant species and the many treasures that Canberra’s nature parks are home to. Please visit www.CanberraNatureMap.org to participate.  

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Species Portraits

Waltraud Pix 25 September 2011 25 September 2011About Mt Majura

Descriptions and photographs of species that occur on Mount Majura. Bundy, Eucalyptus goniocalyx Kurrajong, Brachychiton populneus

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FoMM Flickr. How to share your photographs

Waltraud Pix 23 September 2011 25 September 2011About Mt Majura

Click on FoMM Flickr to join current available Groups and to view Mount Majura’s treasures. How to share your photographs. You would need to have or to open a Flickr account, upload your photos to your photo-stream, join the appropriate FoMM “Group” and add the photograph from your photo-stream to…

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FoMM Flickr. What’s up on the mountain.

Waltraud Pix 20 September 2011 14 January 2014About Mt Majura, News, Projects

View Mount Majura’s treasures and share your photographs. Are you a keen photographer, interested in wildlife and happy to share Mount Majura’s highlights with the wider public? Then join the Friends of Mount Majura Flickr Groups of orchids, wildflowers, trees, grasses, lizards and mammals (including the Friends of Mount Majura).…

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Onion Orchid, Microtis unifolia mass flowering (December 2010)

Waltraud Pix 16 December 2010 23 January 2014About Mt Majura, News, Wildlife

If you know what to look for you will find hundreds of Common Onion Orchids (Microtis unifolia) currently flourishing on Mount Majura. This rather inconspicuous orchid grows in poorly drained sites and has been found growing in large colonies at seepage areas on the footslopes where degradation is limited. The…

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Lobelia gibbosa var. gibbosa

Waltraud Pix 7 December 2010 23 January 2014About Mt Majura, News, Wildlife

The latest addition to the Mount Majura species list is the uncommon Lobelia gibbosa var. gibbosa. This is the only species of the genus Lobelia recorded in the ACT. The species was discovered end of November 2010 at two locations  growing in open forest on rocky soil at the west…

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Hooked Rustyhood, Oligochaetochilus hamatus found on Mount Majura

Waltraud Pix 8 November 2010 23 January 2014About Mt Majura, News, Wildlife

The greenhood orchid Hooked Rustyhood,Oligochaetochilus hamatus syn. Pterostylis hamata was found on Mount Majura in recent days. This is the second orchid species of the genus discovered in the nature reserve (list of Mt Majura / Mt Ainslie plant species). The species is not common in the ACT. It occurs…

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Bundy Miniature Portrait, April 2009

Waltraud Pix 5 April 2009 1 April 2013About Mt Majura, Portrait

Bundy (Eucalyptus goniocalyx) buds and flowers BOTANICAL NAME Eucalyptus goniocalyx   COMMON NAME Bundy, Long-leaved Box   FAMILY Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)   SPECIES NAMING Angled calyx (calyx: collective name of sepals, which form the outer whorl of flowers)   GROWTH HABIT Small, low branching tree to 15 m tall, with…

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    Tackling woody weeds We are a small band of volunteers who meet every Monday, except on holidays, for a variety of conservation activities in the nature reserve east of The Fair, North Watson. If you are free on a Monday morning, why not join our friendly group to help improve…
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    Mondays @ The Fair @ Nature park access Tay Street, The Fair, North Watson | Watson | Australian Capital Territory | Australia
    Tackling woody weeds We are a small band of volunteers who meet every Monday, except on holidays, for a variety of conservation activities in the nature reserve east of The Fair, North Watson. If you are free on a Monday morning, why not join our friendly group to help improve…
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    9:30 am Mondays @ The Fair @ Nature park access Tay Street, The Fair, North Watson
    Mondays @ The Fair @ Nature park access Tay Street, The Fair, North Watson
    Apr 10 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
    Mondays @ The Fair @ Nature park access Tay Street, The Fair, North Watson | Watson | Australian Capital Territory | Australia
    Tackling woody weeds We are a small band of volunteers who meet every Monday, except on holidays, for a variety of conservation activities in the nature reserve east of The Fair, North Watson. If you are free on a Monday morning, why not join our friendly group to help improve…
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