The next scheduled Landcare session for Mt Rogers is on
Monday 4th December from 09.00hrs,
meeting at Mildenhall Place, Fraser.
Thank you,
Rosemary
Monday 4 December working bee
Thank you,
Rosemary
Next Landcare session for Mt Rogers, 26 November
The next Landcare session on Mt Rogers will be on Sunday 26th November from 09.00hrs.
We’ll meet at Mildenhall Place, Fraser.Tools, gaiters, gloves are provided.
Please bring water to drink, and wear clothing & hats suited to the expected weather!
Rosemary
Rosemary
Landcare at Mt Rogers, Monday 6 November
There will be a Landcare session
on Monday 6th November
starting at 09.00am
and from the Wickens Place carpark.
Rosemary
Sunday 22 October working-bee
Sunday 22nd October is the next scheduled working-bee session on Mt Rogers.
We’ll be meeting at the Wickens Place carpark by 09.00am.
If you have time to spare, please come and help us pull up Sticky Weed
before it sets seed.
before it sets seed.
You’ll be most welcome.
Please dress for the expected weather,
wear sturdy footwear and bring water to drink
…..we’ll have pairs of gaiters available.
Thank you,
Rosemary
wear sturdy footwear and bring water to drink
…..we’ll have pairs of gaiters available.
Thank you,
Rosemary
Spring beauty, and weeding on Monday 2 October
I found over 40 of these Fringed Lilies in the reserve yesterday. Each flower would fit on a 5c piece and the plants twine through or over other plants so the flowers can reach the sun.
Our Monday 2nd weeding session will begin from Wickens Place, Fraser at 09.00am.
We have been pulling-digging out privet and ivy seedlings but now is the time to pull out Sticky Weed when we come across it in the reserve or in our gardens….i.e. before the plants produce the seed capsules that stick to clothing, laces, shoes and skin.
Rosemary
Next working-bees for Mt Rogers
Our scheduled working bees are on Sunday 24th September and Monday 3rd October.
Each will begin at 09.00am at this stage.
On Sunday 24th we’ll meet at Mildenhall Place, Fraser.We’ll continue pulling out or minimal-digging the weed species we come across. We expect to find seedlings of Fleabane and Thistles that have germinated early during the increasingly warm spring weather.
We have gloves and gaiters available as well as the appropriate tools.
Please dress for the expected weather including a wide-brimmed hat. And bring water to drink.
Snakes are enjoying the sunny days. Please be aware for yourselves and dogs, that they could be moving through any areas of the 65 hectare reserve seeking prey or water.
Rosemary
Mt Rogers Landcare Group.
Monday September 4th, landcare continues at Mt Rogers
The next scheduled Landcare session for Mt Rogers will be on Monday 4th September from 09.00am
We’ll meet at Mildenhall Place, Fraser again and have tools, gloves ready, gaiters available to continue management of emerging weed species.Rosemary
Opportunities to learn land-care - not just at Mt Rogers!
The next working bee scheduled for Mt Rogers is on Sunday 23rd July from 09.30am. We’ll meet at the Hammett Close cul-de-sac in Spence, and, if needs be, drive a car up the slope with equipment.
We’ll be continuing seeking out thistles ad Fleabane plus any woody weed species we come across.
For the next Monday session, on 7th August, we’ll meet in Mildenhall Place, Fraser unless otherwise advised and at 09.30.
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There will be groups of Landcare volunteers on Mt Rogers at four weekend afternoons in the next months.
They will be completing the practical sessions of Landcare Restoration training for local habitats on Mt Rogers and near Ginninderra Creek at Umbagong (in Latham).
Rosemary
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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THIS WEEKEND
AND AHEAD!
AND AHEAD!
There are now over 30 Landcare groups caring for sites in Ginninderra Creek’s catchment area. The Catchment Group’s learning sessions are a great way to “care for Country”.
There may be places available for the October and December sessions if you know anyone who would be interested in augmenting their skills.
Habitat Restoration Weekend Workshops - Ginninderra Catchment
When: July 22nd-23rd; August 19th-20th; October 7th-8th; or December 2nd-3rd. 9.30am-4pm.
Where: GCG office, 21 Bingle St, Flynn. Afternoons at a local site (TBC) for hands-on learning.
Cost: $20 (financial hardship offer available)
Ginninderra Catchment Group (GCG) is running a habitat restoration training program for landcarers across the Ginninderra Catchment from urban, parks and rural landcare groups. The focus of the training will be on encouraging your site to regenerate its own seed bank and restore its own biological systems to bring back the bush.
The system of restoration starts with careful observation and surveying of existing biology and then offering a triage of sensitive, non-chemical repair techniques using novel approaches and tools.
Be prepared to be challenged and engaged in alternative ways of managing our sites. The workshops are two full days, both theory and practice, with morning theory sessions in the GCG office at Flynn and the afternoons out onsite learning hands-on techniques.
So that GCG can engage as many landcaring folks as possible, we will be running four weekend sessions until the end of the year, with 15 participants per weekend workshop.
Training opportunities are:
Topics included in the training:
Cost: $20 per person.
Financial hardship offer: If you are experiencing financial hardship, please contact us at ruralprojects@
The system of restoration starts with careful observation and surveying of existing biology and then offering a triage of sensitive, non-chemical repair techniques using novel approaches and tools.
Be prepared to be challenged and engaged in alternative ways of managing our sites. The workshops are two full days, both theory and practice, with morning theory sessions in the GCG office at Flynn and the afternoons out onsite learning hands-on techniques.
So that GCG can engage as many landcaring folks as possible, we will be running four weekend sessions until the end of the year, with 15 participants per weekend workshop.
Training opportunities are:
- July 22nd-23rd,
- August 19th-20th,
- October 7th-8th,
or - December 2nd-3rd
Topics included in the training:
- Common ACT exotic flora and fauna identification
- What weeds can tell us about the land on which they are growing
- Novel ecosystems and weeds as habitat
- Appropriate weed management techniques
- Herbicides and their impacts on biology
- Native flora and fauna ID
- Common fauna of the ACT (GCG Catchment)
- Common flora of the ACT (GCG Catchment)
- Identification techniques – VegWatch survey systems
- Planning for restoration
- Restoration techniques
- Revegetation – Seed collection, direct seeding, tube-stock planting
- Protection from rabbits, macropods and other threats.
Cost: $20 per person.
Financial hardship offer: If you are experiencing financial hardship, please contact us at ruralprojects@
Landcare on Monday 3rd July
The next Mt Rogers Working Bee will be on Monday 3rd July.
We'll meet, around 09.30, near the main path above the easement between Carey Place, Melba, and Hammett Place, Spence. There's parking in both of these cul-de-sacs.
We'll be continuing seeking and pulling up seedlings and saplings of introduced species:
*Privet,
*Cotoneaster,
*Ivy,
but working to the north of our session on Sunday 25th June.
Please dress for the expected weather. We can supply suitable gloves and secateurs but welcome your company and muscle power!
Rosemary.
Sunday 25 June landcare working bee
The next Mt Rogers Working Bee will be on Sunday 25th June.
We’ll meet, by 09.30, near the main path above the easement between Carey Place, Melba and Hammett Place, Spence. There’s parking in both of these cul-de-sacs.
We’ll be continuing seeking and pulling up seedlings and saplings of introduced species:
*Privet,
*Cotoneaster,
*Ivy,
as they will deprive native shrubs and trees of space, rain and nutrients if left to grow to maturity.
*Privet,
*Cotoneaster,
*Ivy,
as they will deprive native shrubs and trees of space, rain and nutrients if left to grow to maturity.
In the above photo, the new tools that the Ginninderra Catchment Group https://ginninderralandcare.
has funded for our Landcare volunteers are being used in removing a large Cotoneaster.
The red berries were bagged and the leafy branches were placed around a eucalypt where they will decay, with fungal
and microbial help, returning nutrients to the reserve’s thin soils.
Please dress for the expected weather.
We can supply suitable gloves and secateurs
and we welcome your company and muscle-power!
We can supply suitable gloves and secateurs
and we welcome your company and muscle-power!
Rosemary
Mt Rogers working bee on Monday 5th June
Greetings Mt Rogers Carers,
On Monday 5th we will meet by 09.30at the ‘eastern' arm of Schwarz Place, Flynn.
We’ll be continuing our seek-and-pull-out mission against Privet, Ivy and Cotoneaster seedlings which have grown from berries in gardens beyond Mt Rogers.
I will bring gloves and some ‘minimal disturbance’ digging tools.
The weather won’t be as warm as the last few days and the grass may well be damp.
Thank you,
Rosemary
Next working bee: Sunday 28 May
The next working bee on and for Mt Rogers will be on Sunday 28th May.
We’ll be meeting in Rechner Place (North) from 09.30.
We will be seeking out and pulling seedlings of privet, ivy and other ‘woody’ weeds.
Identification skills quickly learnt-on-the-job and small tools and gloves provided.
Thank you,
Rosemary
Sunday 26 March working bee
Mt Rogers’ landcare next working bee is on Sunday 26th,
meeting at Wickens Place, Fraser by 09.00am.
Continuing our efforts against Fleabane, Thistles and Verbascum.
The grasses aren’t so tall now as they die down.
Thistles and Fleabane seeds blow away on the wind so the next few days seem like last chances.
No previous experience necessary…BYO secateurs useful!!
Thank you to the TCCS mowing teams who have neatened up the reserve’s edges.
Perhaps next month we’ll have a PRIVVVVY PARTY?
A whole army of Mt Rogers community volunteers seeking and digging out Privet, Ivy and Cotoneaster seedlings like these.
These privets have germinated from a blob of bird poo after birds ate berries and brought them in from suburban gardens and public land easements.
If we have some rain they’ll dig out with small tools as we wouldn’t want to disturb the leaf litter and soil too much.
Thank you,
Rosemary
Landcare session dates for 2023, for your diary!
Greetings to Mt Rogers Carers.
If you’re able to be part of Landcare sessions during 2023 please would you note these dates in your calendar and diary now as information about tasks and activity locations is not always ready a week before each session!
These are scheduled Landcare Working-Bee sessions. Individual volunteers spend many hours in the reserves working on specific projects, observations, recording species or targetting the priority invasive species.
Mt RogersMorning sessions for about 2 hoursFirst Monday of each month………..…..6th February 08.30Fourth Sunday of each month…………26th February 08.30Treating the priority target weed(s) or priority tasks ‘of the day’.Main carpark area: Wickens Place, Fraser butDue to the size of the reserve the meeting places and parking locations may vary each time.My email: rosemary@blemings.org Those who have expressed an interest in volunteering for the reserve will receive notification prior to each working-bee.Future months…………………Monday 6th March 09.00…………………Sunday 26th March 09.00…………………Monday 3rd April 09.00…………………Sunday 23rd April 09.00…….……………Monday 1st May 09.00………………….Sunday 28th May 09.00………………….Monday 5th June 09.00………………….Sunday 25th June 09.00………………… Monday 3rd July 09.00………………… Sunday 23rd July 09.00…………………. Monday 7th August 09.00……………………Sunday 27th August 09.00……………………Monday 4th September 09.00 or 08.30……………………Sunday 24th September 09.00 or 08.30……………………Monday 2nd October 08.30……………………Sunday 22nd October 08.30……………………Monday 6th November 08.30………………….Sunday 26th November 08.30…………………….Monday 4th December 08.30Thank you for your interest and involvement.
Rosemary
Mt Rogers Landcare Group convenor
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