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Category: News

Woody Weeds Working Party 18/04/2021

Waltraud Pix 7 April 2021 7 April 2021Events, News, Weeds

Join the Friends of Mt Majura work party to follow up on the control of woody weeds in the nature reserve behind Mackenzie Street. The targets will be Cootamundra Wattle and Sweet Briar Rose and any non-native garden escape that we can reliably identify. With the end of daylight saving,…

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Work Party: Planting and Weeding @ the Drainage Ditch (21/03/2021)

Waltraud Pix 28 February 2021 20 March 2021Events, News

Message Sat 20/03/21 16:45 Due to predicted wet conditions on Sunday 21 March we postpone the work party to Sunday 28 March – same time and place. Friends of Mt Majura will be hosting a working party on Sunday, 21 March to plant native species along the edge of the…

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Working Party @ The Fair (21/02/2021)

Waltraud Pix 16 February 2021 16 February 2021News

  FoMM will resume its third Sunday monthly working bees on 21 February, at The Fair site at North Watson. Register your participation at the nature reserve entrance, corner of Tay and Ian Nicol Streets. Click on this map to view the volunteer registration point and working area; the base…

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Fireweed Alert and Canberra Nature Map

Waltraud Pix 12 November 2020 31 December 2020News

During a recent pleasant weeding session at The Fair project site I spotted a flowering plant that I haven’t seen before. I took photographs and uploaded them on Canberra Nature Map; see this sighting. The ACT Weed Officer Steve Taylor confirmed the species to be Fireweed, Senecio madagascariensis, a highly…

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Curse Bash & Bag (November 2020)

Waltraud Pix 10 November 2020 31 December 2020News, Weeds

Give Mount Majura a helping hand. One of our target weeds – Paterson’s Curse – keeps germinating from a large seed bank in the soil due to conditions that are favourable for this pesky purple pest. Fortunately, we can build on the efforts of volunteers who began weeding in late…

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Sticky Weeds Rampage (14/11/2020)

Waltraud Pix 10 November 2020 31 December 2020News, Uncategorized, Weeds

Please come and help remove the rampant Cleavers (Sticky weeds) at a lovely site with old-growth Yellow Box trees. Members of the Australian Conservation Foundation joined FoMM volunteers last Sunday and together we cleaned up two-thirds of the Cleavers as well as many Slender thistles, Sowthistles, Indian Hedge Mustard and…

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Working party at the drainage ditch (15/11/2020)

Waltraud Pix 10 November 2020 31 December 2020News, Weeds

Weeds have such a good run this season. Cleavers or Sticky weeds, in particular, are taking over and smothering native plants. Please come and give hand at the Friends of Mt Majura working party on Sunday, 15 November and help remove Cleavers and other herbaceous weeds around the drainage ditch…

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Hand Weeding and Direct Seeding around The Fair 11th & 18th October 2020

Waltraud Pix 1 October 2020 16 October 2020Events, News, Weeds

Rain since late summer has brought about the good, the bad and the ugly of Mt Majura. Whilst we experience a bumper season of native wildflowers*, the weeds, unfortunately, are rampant too. The best we can achieve is a reduction of seeding weeds at sites where we have already invested…

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Bird Walk (25/10/2020)

Waltraud Pix 23 September 2020 23 September 2020News, Walks and talks

Accompany bird enthusiast Peter Miller for a morning stroll on Mt Majura and see, listen to and learn about the birds that nest, fledge and sing in spring. When: Sunday 25 October, 8am (sharp) – 10am Where: Meet at nature reserve entrance Mackenzie Street roughly opposite Grayson Street in Hackett;…

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Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) Newsletter September 2020

Jo Lynch 1 September 2020 12 December 2020News, Newsletters

Events For more information on any of the below events, please visit our website at www.majura.org. WoW! Wild on Weeds Hand Weeding Sessions, Sundays in September Following terrific hand weeding sessions in June, the Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) will be hosting another set of hand weeding sessions over the…

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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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    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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    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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