The Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, Dr Maxine Cooper, invited public submissions to an investigation into the Canberra Nature Park (nature reserves); the Molonglo River Corridor (nature reserves) and Googong Foreshores. The terms of reference were published on the Commissioner’s website at www.envcom.act.gov.au. The closing date for the submission…
FoMM Newsletter October 2009 (pdf) • Rabbit follow-up control program • Watson Woodlands talk – tonight • Casuarina trail launch – this Friday 2 October • Old tip working bee – this Sunday 4 October • Spring Wildflower walk – Sunday 11 October • FoMM working bee – Sunday 18…
2008-09 FoMM Report (pdf) Friends of Mount Majura (FoMM) 2008/2009 report I just read the article “Restoring weed-invaded woodlands: the importance of Kangaroo grass” published in the Austral Bugle, Newsletter of the Southern Tableland (Vol 2, Issue 1, Winter 2009). The authors, Suzanne Prober (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) and Ian Lund…
Rabbit Mapping. Suggestions for 2nd round
The Rabbit Warren Mapping, a project jointly run by Friends of Mount Majura, the Mount Ainslie Weeders and the Watson Woodland Working Group, received a High Commendation at the ACT 2009 Landcare Awards ceremony held on the 10 September 2009. Thank you everyone who had a hand in the nomination,…
FoMM Newsletter September 2009
Voting is now open for the People’s Choice Award for the ACT Landcare Awards. For the first time, the public get to choose each state’s first winner of the People’s Choice Award category. Decided by your votes, the inaugural ACT People’s Choice winner will be announced alongside the judged winners…
full report click here to view pictures of the event More than 140 enthusiastic volunteers from Hackett and surrounding suburbs joined by Ms Caroline Le Couteur MLA, Andrew Barr, Minister for Planning and Senator Gary Humphries celebrated National Tree Day 2009 on Sunday, 2 August by planting over 300 local…
Mount Majura was host to a record number of endangered Swift Parrot, (Lathamus discolor) between end of March and beginning of May in 2005 and 2008. The parrots were most frequently observed around the lower Hackett reservoir off Rivett / French Streets feeding on nectar of Bundy and lerp –…
Mount Majura was host to a record number of endangered Swift Parrot, (Lathamus discolor) between end of March and beginning of May in 2005 and 2008. The parrots were most frequently observed around the lower Hackett reservoir off Rivett / French Streets feeding on nectar of Bundy and lerp –…
