Interested in learning more about herbicide application?

Are you a landholder in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT?

Are you working with herbicides as a Park Carer/landcarer in the ACT or in the Googong or Upper Murrumbidgee catchments south of the ACT? If you fall into any of these categories and want to upgrade your chemical application skills, ensure your machinery is working correctly, enable up to date records and gain accreditation or reaccreditation then read on.

Do you enjoy learning about wildlife or native plants, weeding, GPS tracking, checking pitfall traps or just 'general work with your hands'?

Come along to the inaugural meeting of the 'Friends of Mulligans Flat' meeting at Delfin Lend Lease Sales Office, Francis Forde Boulevarde, Forde on Sunday 23 October at 11 am.

More information is contained in the attached flyer.

Meet: Point Hut Crossing carpark at 9am.

Planned activities: Planting trees and shrubs, spreading Themeda seed (Kangaroo Grass) and making clay seed balls.

Please wear suitable clothes and sturdy footwear, and bring water. If you have experience with clay seed balls that would be great.

For more information about the POSM group, see the Parkcarers of Southern Murrumbidgee page.

Have you ever wondered how we can live an enjoyable, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle in cities and suburbs?

Want to explore how we can live wisely within our natural environment?

Intention: To agree and action the community hub/city farm we want to see in Canberra.

Guided Spring Wildflower Community Walk
- Farrer Ridge Nature Park

Meet at top of Muresk Street Farrer at 10am.
Bring cameras, binoculars, hat, & wear walking shoes.

More information: Phil Selmes, Parks Stromlo depot: 6205 7384

All welcome.

For more information about the group, see the Farrer Ridge Parkcare Group web page.

Meet: at Athllon Depot at 10am.

Planned activities: Weed assessment, and removal. Any possible forb/grass planting in degraded sites.

This is the regular monthly activity for the Farrer Ridge Parkcare Group, held on the first Sunday of each month.

For more information about the group, see the Farrer Ridge Parkcare Group web page.

Venue: Environment Centre, Lennox & Lawson Cr (by the National Museum)

Spring has brought us out of hibernation, and with it a fun and sustainable event to get you swapping instead of shopping...

Spring is the time of year when layers of clothing required start to dwindle, biking becomes a rekindled passion and vegetable gardens are revived...

Barney's Gully

Erosion control in a sensitive environment.

• Observing your land for challenges and opportunities
• Discussion of potential remedies to observed challenges
• Low risk/low cost/low maintenance techniques to reduce erosion, rehydrate flood plains, improve water quality, fertility and biodiversity

The ACT Government's Office of Conservation, Planning and Research aquatic scientist Matt Beitzel has had enough of mosquito fish in our urban ponds and dams.

Fenner School Public Seminar Series

Forestry Lecture Theatre (Bld 48)

Safe drinking water through Source Water Protection in the ACT

Lara Odell

Abstract:

Ensuring that the water which enters our treatment plants is of as high a quality as possible is recognised in the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines as an important step in the provision of drinking water. The ACT's drinking water is drawn from several different catchments, both within and outside the Territory's borders, encompassing a wide range of different land uses.