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…
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…
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…
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…
Join bird enthusiast Peter Miller for a morning stroll through Mt Majura’s woodlands to spot, observe, listen to, and learn about the amazing variety of birds on Mt Majura. We plan to walk on rough foot tracks, and off track on uneven ground. Insectivorous birds of different species often join…
Come and give a hand at the working party held by the Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) in the endangered grassy woodlands of Mt Majura’s west slopes. When: Sunday, 16 June 2024, from 1.00pm to 4.00pm. Where: Meet at the nature park entrance off Kellaway Street Car Park at the…
Weeding with Friends – Third Sunday Working Bee, 19 May 9am – noon Mount Ainslie and Mount Majura are part of the same ecosystem and in May FoMM will join with the Mount Ainslie Weeders to remove woody weeds from a ‘common’ patch. Meet at the Kellaway Street, Hackett entrance…
Join in the co-operative working party of the Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) and the Mount Ainslie Weeders in the endangered grassy woodlands of Mts Ainslie’s and Majura’s west slopes. When: Sunday, 19 May 2024, from 9.00am to 12.00noon. Where: Meet at the nature park entrance off Kellaway Street Car…
Weeding with a view – third Sunday working bee 21 April 1 – 4pm Come and help remove horehound at an old sheep camp on Majura Ridge. Enjoy the view, friendly company, homemade cake for afternoon tea and the satisfaction of having cleaned a patch of horrible horehound which will…
In the past years, between end of March and beginning of May, Swift Parrots visited the Mt Majura nature reserve. In 2005 and 2008, a record number of the critically endangered species was observed in the reserve around the lower Hackett water reservoir off Rivett street in Hackett feeding on…
