If you think Privets are an environmental disaster, think again: Callery Pear, Pyrus calleryana, the darling of horticulturists and landscapers, is on the march to invade our nature reserves and local bush land. In September, Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) wrote to Suzanne Orr, the Minister for Climate Change, Environment,…
Congratulations to the Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) on winning the Landcare 2021 Group Award. Jeannine Fromholtz of the Molonglo Conservation Group presented the award to FoMM volunteers at the Monday’s @ The Fair session on 28th March 2022. Minister for the Environment, Rebecca Vassarotti, who helped to plant local…
View this video scan of the transformed Fair project taken in March 2021 and see images of plants and plant communities taken in summer 2020/21 at various sites: lower slope, deep soil upper slope, shallow soil & rocky outcrops mid slope around conifer photo points mid slope open woodland …
Watch the Seeding Nodes in the News Watch this Movie on Seeding Node Soil Preparation The Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) newest and exiting project aims to reintroduce native forbs (herbaceous species other than grass) including rare, endangered, and native food species to the grassy woodlands of the Mt Majura…
The record high temperatures, drought and raging fires this 2019/20 Summer season have caused enormous losses of habitat, wildlife (animals and plants), and general damage to our treasured ACT landscape and woodlands. Caring people in many locations sprang into action by providing containers with water on the kerbside of their…
A Big Thank You to more than 75 enthusiastic volunteers for planting, watering and mulching over 100 local trees, shrubs and wildflowers on Sunday 28th July 2019; click on this picture gallery to view Steve’s brilliant photographs of the event. Residents of Watson, many families, the Majura Mountain scouts and…
It is with sadness to report ongoing vandalism of Friends of Mt Majura work and Parks Service infrastructure around the Hackett Reservoir drain line. The ParkCare notice board and signs have been vandalized with graffiti, shrubs planted by volunteers were broken and erosion control measures destroyed. If anyone has an…
What a wonderful National Tree Day we had! View this photo gallery. A Big Thank You to over 100 enthusiastic volunteers for defying the cold and windy weather on Sunday, 29th July to plant, water and mulch 150 seedlings of local trees, shrubs and wildflowers in the nature reserve east…
On the 10 April Friends of Mt Majura volunteer Waltraud Pix found a dead European brown hare in the nature reserve east of The Fair, North Watson (Canberra Nature Map at https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Sighting/3394564). The animal had no external injuries and showed the stretched limbs and head typical of animals killed by…
On an overcast and coolish Sunday morning of October 22nd, Ornithologist Peter Miller led a group of 19 Bird enthusiasts (including three children & a sleeping baby!) on a leisurely stroll through the Fair Mt Majura Grassy Woodlands. Peter’s friendly storytelling style interspersed with questions and lively discussion kept us…
