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
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