Give a hand at a bush cleanup on Clean-up Australia Day Sunday, 1st March from 10 am to 12 noon. Meet at the volunteer registration point, nature park entrance Ian Nicol Street / Tay street east of The Fair, North Watson; click on this map. Bring gloves if you have…
Come along to the last work party in 2019 hosted by Friends of Mt Majura on Sunday 15th December; gift an hour or more to Mt Majura and help to mulch, water, and place debris at our project site in the nature reserve east of The Fair. Morning tea and…
Canberra Nature Map is a wonderful tool to share Mt Majura’s treasures and learn about our local wildlife. Jenni’s first contribution to CNM is this beautiful picture of an Echidnas gathering which she took recently. Of course, the gathering has a reason and of course, sex is involved. Read Michael’s…
Working party @ The Fair – Sunday 16 June 2019, 10am – 3pm Join in this working party at The Fair and help spread mulch around the plantings. Give as much time as you like. Where: Nature reserve east of The Fair, North Watson; access and volunteer registration at park…
End-of-the-Year Working Party – Sunday 16 December 2018 Join us to help remove English Ivy, Japanese Honeysuckle and a few other woody weeds that grow in and around the drainage line close to the Hackett reservoir. Come early for an introduction and give as much time as you want.You need…
Weeding With a View. Horehound Blitz – 17 June 2018, 1pm to approx. 4pm Please give a hand and help remove pesky horehound at an old sheep camp with a view. Give as much time as you like. Horehound is a common perennial weed often found at old stock camps…
A week ago volunteers of Friends of Mt Majura found Rambling dock, Actetosa sagittata and Bridal creeper, Asparagus asparagoides, at garden refuse dumping sites in the nature reserve east of Mackenzie Street, Hackett. The finding of Rambling dock alerted ACT weed officers and triggered a fast response of the ACT…
Dear Friends, Welcome to the June edition of the FoMM newsletter. Hope you have all been enjoying the clear and crisp winter weather lately to get out and about on Mt Majura. We had a fantastic work party last month removing around four cubic meters of Japanese honeysuckle and some English Ivy from the…
Sunday 11 September 8-10am, Meet at Mount Majura Nature Reserve entrance off Mackenzie St, near Grayson St, Hackett. Walk through the woodlands in early spring with bird enthusiast Peter Miller to spot, observe, listen to, identify and learn about birds of Mount Majura Expect to see a variety of early spring migrants, possibly…
Download FoMM President, Jochen Zeil’s annual report presentation to the 2014 AGM and find out all about what FoMM achieved in 2014, as well as the ongoing issues we face. FoMM AGM2014_WhatWeHaveDoneSmall FoMM AGM2014_PlansProblems&ProjectsSmall Warning: both these files are approximately 5MB each in size.
