St John’s Wort spread like wildfire across the Canberra region over the past years, wreaking havoc on native plant species in grasslands and grassy woodlands. St John’s Wort (SJW) is listed as one of the four most serious grassland weeds in the ACT Government’s Natural Temperate Grassland Endangered Ecological Community…
Celebrate the arrival of spring by enjoying time on Mount Majura! Join the Friends of Mount Majura in activities to improve the reserve and learn about the flora and fauna who call Mount Majura home. Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris visiting the purple flowering vine Hardenbergia violacea twining through the branches of a Drooping Sheoak Allocasuarina…
Join bird enthusiast Peter Miller for a morning stroll to spot, observe, listen to, and learn about the amazing variety of birds living on and visiting Mt Majura. We plan to walk on rough foot tracks, and off track on uneven ground. Some rare and uncommon feathery visitors have been…
Come and help remove horehound and other herbaceous weeds at the old stock camp on Mt Majura Ridge. Enjoy the views, friendly company, a cake and the satisfaction of having cleaned a patch of weeds which will encourage native plants to thrive. When: Sunday, 15 September, from 1 pm to…
Pre-Spring Work Party, Sunday, 18 August 2024, from 1pm to 4pm Spring is around the corner and Mt Majura’s early wattles are in full bloom. Join in a working party hosted by the Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) to remove exotic garden escapees including non-local Australian shrubs that grow outside their…
Spring is around the corner and Mt Majura’s early wattles are in full bloom. Join in a working party hosted by the Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) to remove exotic garden escapes including non-local Australian shrubs that grow outside their natural range and threaten to out-compete local natives of the…
Woody Weeds Working Party – 3rd Take (21 July 2024 1:00pm to 4:00pm) 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…
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…
