On Thursday 21stNovember 2013 a tornado touched down on Mount Majura. Those of us living in Hackett are very fortunate that the touchdown occurred on the eastern slopes. That Thursday night there was a huge and powerful storm with strong winds, hail and lots of rain. The maximum gust registered…
In 2009, the Explaining Change Project created three sample areas close by the Hackett water tank. This was so we could assess the relative impacts of rabbit and kangaroo grazing. One plot excludes both kangaroos and rabbits, one plot excludes kangaroos but allows rabbits and the third plot is a…
2645 residents of the ACT signed the petition to return Majura paddocks 5 and 6 back into Mount Majura Nature Reserve. Katy Gallagher tabled the petition in the ACT Legislative Assembly on the 26th November. The petition and background information are available here.
Rare Plant Survey Sunday, 3rd November 2013, 10am – 12noon Meet at the nature park entrance, Mackenzie Street opposite Grayson Street, Hackett (view this map) Bring sun protection, water, something to write, a camera if you have one. Join Dr. Michael Mulvaney, ACT Conservation, Planning and Research for an introduction…
Friends of Mount Majura will hold its first Annual General Meeting. Come along. Everyone is welcome! Wednesday 9 October 2013, 7.30pm to 9.00pm ACT Sportshouse 100 Maitland St, Hackett A group of FoMM members has worked hard over the last year to develop a new structure for FoMM with the…
Dear Friends It took several years of lobbying until the ACT government agreed to support a parkCare group for Mount Majura. In July 2003 founding members met the first time and chose the name Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM). I have been nominated the coordinator and held this position until…
Friends of Mt Majura Media Release Monday, 18 March, 2013 The grazing impact of Kangaroos: A three year experiment The results of a three year experiment by a local ParkCare group demonstrate that grazing pressure by kangaroos has serious consequences for the integrity of endangered grassy woodlands. Since late 2009,…
Since 2008 volunteers of the Friends of Mount Majura, the Mount Ainslie Weeders, the Watson Woodland Working Group and the wider public assisted Parks and Conservation Service with the control of rabbits in the Mt Ainslie and Mt Majura nature reserves. For three years in a row volunteers recorded rabbit…
Madagascan Fireweed, Senecio madagascariensis is a serious weed of grasslands and grassy woodlands (grazed and un-grazed). It has been recently found on the Monaro Highway close to the ACT border and on a paddock abutting Antill Street in Watson. It was most likely introduced with fodder. Click Fireweed alert flyer…
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).…
