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Activities Friends of Grasslands regular activities include:
You can Help Us or Get Help if you want to be involved. The current calendar (below) includes FoG and related activities. To be kept fully up to date with FoG activities, become a member, get the newsletter and if you have email access you'll also get the FoG E-bulletin with all the latest news and information. If you have queries about any of the activities below, contact the person nominated, or Contact Us. FoG visits many private or public properties during the year to assist in plant identification and management issues. These visits usually do not appear in the FoG program because we may not know what to expect at such sites and because they are usually arranged at short notice. If you are interested in participating in property visits, Contact Us.
Please advertise this information amongst your friends and networks and support our activities. Non-FoG members are welcome to FoG events. For any FoG activity you should register with the indicated contact, who can assist with directions and possibly car pooling. By registering you assist us to organise any catering and provide you with any other information that you may need.
FOG ACTIVITIES FOG/Fenner Working Bee, Scrivener's Hut, Capital Hill (9.00am-12.00pm & 1.00pm-4.00pm Sun 5 Feb 2012)
We’ll finish clearing the southern end of this important button wrinklewort site of woody weeds on this only day of work scheduled for 2012 in this area of grassy woodland. We need all the help we can get to rescue this neglected site in National Capital landsa hop, step and jump from the federal parliamentary zone! Meet in the Scrivener's Hut car park between State and Capital Circles, entrance off State Circle, between Commonwealth Avenue and Flynn Drive (on the bike path from the lake beside Flynn Drive up to Parliament House). The work site is in the bush across the streamline from the carpark. Lunch will be provided. Please register with jamie.pittock@fog.org.au and bring drinking water (though this site also does have tap water available), sun protection and sturdy footwear. The work involves cutting and daubing woody weeds, piling of cut branches, some hand weeding near sites of important species. The site has partial shade, so work can still proceed if this midsummer's day turns out very hot. NON-FOG EVENTS Public meeting:
Conservation of Stirling Park in Yarralumla We invite you to participate in a public meeting on the future of Stirling Park in Yarralumla. This bushland is cherished for its flora and fauna, recreation and cultural heritage. However the Park is threatened by an influx of noxious weeds and a number of mooted developments. This public meeting will hear of the important values of the Park and how local residents in "parkcare" groups have helped conserve other reserves in Canberra, like Red Hill. We aim to form a "Friends of Stirling Park Group" that will provide ways for local people to contribute to conservation of the park through volunteer work. This meeting is organised by Friends of Grasslands, a Canberra-based community group, which has been working to control Stirling Park over the past three years. More information: Jamie Pittock, email jamie.pittock@fog.org.au, or mobile 0407 265 131. STEP Working Bees, NAC (8-11:00 am, every Thursday) The Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park (STEP) was established at the behest of FOG and the ANPS. Even over winter there is much work to be done at the STEP block in the National Arboretum Canberra (NAC). If you would like to help out at any of our regular working bees, please contact Tony Lawson on 6161 9430 or tony.lawson@fog,org.au.
A recently discovered large infestation of Spanish Heath (Erica lusitanica) at Percival Hill Reserve. This environmental weed has flowers that look a bit like the native Peach Heath (Lissanthe strigosa), but the leaves are very different. The leaves of Spanish Heath look a bit like the Native Small-leaf Parrot-Pea leaves (Dillwynia retorta var phylicoides). Please report any sightings to Steve Taylor at PCS: steve.taylor@act.gov.au. Further information: http://www.flickr.com/photos/act_parks/5959718079/in/photostream & http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&ibra=all&card=E43 Please advertise this information amongst your friends and networks. Non FoG members are welcome to FoG events. For inquiries or if you have an item to include, please Contact Us
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