Red Hill Regeneration Group

The dreadful wind and cold on Red Hill for the Regenerators AGM on Sunday 2 December didn’t deter those members from completing their AGM and final working bee for 2018.

The Red Hill Historic Plantings were formally entered into the ACT Heritage Register under Section 40 of the ACT Heritage Act 2004 on 15 November 2018. The letter of notification and instrument of registration can be found here and here. More information…

You are cordially invited to the launch of the second book of poetry by Paul Williamson, titled ‘Ties to Red Hill’, at 4pm on Tuesday 4 December 2018 at the Red Hill Summit cafe (see  invitation).

The Red Hill Regenerators invite you to our next activity of 2018, which will be held on Wednesday 14 November 2018 starting at 9am

Unfortunately (or fortunately) our October mid month activity was cancelled due to rain. So this activity on 14 November will return to complete the rained out one.

For this next activity we will move down to the southern end of the Hill where verbascum have been spotted together with significant numbers of briar rose.

Time: Wednesday 14 November 2018 Work: 0900 to 1230, with byo morning tea at 1100. 

More information: info@redhillregenerators.org.au. Prior registration is not required.

Location: Meet at the reserve gate close to the Tamar Street junction with Hindmarsh Drive

Activities:  cut and dab briar rose and woody weeds, spray and chip verbascum and thistle, map rabbit warrens and coconut ant nests.

You bring: Water, hat, long sleeved shirt, long pants, eye protection, sunscreen cream, solid shoes, byo morning tea.

We bring: We will provide tools, dabbers, gloves and instructions

Note: It is important that you attend the safety briefing and instructions at 9.00am.  Children under 15 years must be accompanied and supervised by a parent or guardian. Individuals who are under 18 years must have parental or guardian consent. Those wishing to use the manual spray equipment are strongly urged to obtain free training from Parks & Conservation in the use of chemicals.

Cancellation: The activity will be cancelled by email (if possible) if enough rain/wind is forecast to make planned work potentially hazardous, or high temperatures are forecast.

Other 2018 activities scheduled for your diary are:

• Sunday 2 December 2017 time to be announced. AGM

The Red Hill Regenerators invite you to our next activity of 2018, which will be held on Sunday 4 November 2018 starting at 9am

For this activity, we are putting away the loppers, saws and dabbers and instead we will accompany Dr Michael Mulvaney for a nature stroll on Red Hill, where Michael will talk about and answer your questions on everything Red Hill – flora, fauna, insects, butterflies, history, geology, threats and more!

Time: Sunday 4 November 2018 from 0900. The length of the walk and talk will only be limited by your interest, although it should finish by about 11am, when we will find a shady spot for morning tea. 

More information: info@redhillregenerators.org.au. Prior registration is not required.

Location: Park cars at the top of Bonwick Place, Garran, taking care not to obstruct residential driveways, and walk 50m uphill to meet at the maintenance track.

Activities:  Walk and talk with Dr Michael Mulvaney

You bring: Water, hat, long sleeved shirt, long pants,  sunscreen cream, solid shoes, byo morning tea.

Cancellation: The activity will be cancelled by email (if possible) if enough rain/wind is forecast to make planned work potentially hazardous, or high temperatures are forecast.

Other 2018 activities scheduled for your diary are:

• Wednesday 14 November 2018 09.00am Final working bee for 2018.
• Sunday 2 December 2017 09.00am  AGM

The Red Hill Regenerators invite you to our next activity of 2018, which will be held on Wednesday 17 October 2018 starting at 9am

Our previous activity resulted in thousands of verbascum being sprayed and/or chipped over a huge area along both sides of the ridge and around the Davidsons Trig.  The rabbits are also back in large numbers and the status of known and new warrens need to be mapped, using Collector App (if you wish to obtain training for this activity please ensure that you have the “Collector for ArCGIS’ App loaded on your smartphone). While spraying the verbascum some new rabbit warrens were mapped.

For this next activity we will move down to the southern end of the Hill where verbascum have been spotted together with significant numbers of briar rose.

There is also an opportunity to water some of the plantings.

Note that the next activity on Sunday 4 November 2018 will be a nature walk, conducted by Dr Michael Mulvaney. More details will follow.

Time: Wednesday 17 October 2018 Work: 0900 to 1230, with byo morning tea at 1100. 

More information: info@redhillregenerators.org.au. Prior registration is not required.

Location: Meet at the reserve gate close to the Tamar Street junction with Hindmarsh Drive

Activities:  cut and dab briar rose and woody weeds, spray and chip verbascum and thistle, map rabbit warrens and coconut ant nests. Water plantings.

You bring: Water, hat, long sleeved shirt, long pants, eye protection, sunscreen cream, solid shoes, byo morning tea. Bring two buckets if you wish to do some watering

We bring: We will provide tools, dabbers, gloves and instructions

Note: It is important that you attend the safety briefing and instructions at 9.00am.  Children under 15 years must be accompanied and supervised by a parent or guardian. Individuals who are under 18 years must have parental or guardian consent. Those wishing to use the manual spray equipment are strongly urged to obtain free training from Parks & Conservation in the use of chemicals.

Cancellation: The activity will be cancelled by email (if possible) if enough rain/wind is forecast to make planned work potentially hazardous, or high temperatures are forecast.

Other 2018 activities scheduled for your diary are:

• Sunday 4 November 2018 09.00am Nature walk led by Michael Mulvaney
• Wednesday 14 November 2018 09.00am Working bee
• Sunday 2 December 2017 08.00am Working bee and AGM

The Red Hill Regenerators invite you to our next activity of 2018, which will be held on Sunday 7 October 2018 starting at 9am

A recent inspection along the Red Hill ridge has revealed that, despite our focus on verbascum over the last two years, they are back in large numbers this year. So the activity this month will primarily engage with spraying and chipping the verbascum located on the ridge mostly to the north and south of Davidson’s trig.  The rabbits are also back in large numbers and the status of known and new warrens need to be mapped, using Collector App (if you wish to undertake this activity please ensure that you have the “Collector for ArCGIS’ App loaded on your smartphone) (more…)