The annual Red Hill Regenerators twilight walk was held on Tuesday 14 December 2021 on a perfect warm, still evening, starting from the Red Hill restaurant at 5.30pm. The 90 minute walk attracted over 30 enthusiastic participants who were absorbed by the fascinating discourse on a wide variety of Red Hill’s unique geology, history, […]
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Just when you thought there were no more Red Hill activities this year, a special pre Christmas treat will be held on Sunday 19 December 2021 from 9am. We will have one last push to set a Guiness Book of Records for the number of verbascum flower spikes beheaded and dabbed within a two
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The Regenerators held their final activity of the year on 5 December 2021, combined with their AGM. In spite of Covid inconveniences, the year was productive, with awards, tree planting, weed removal and much success in grant applications. More… Photo by Andrew Zelnic
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Our expert ecologist Dr Michael Mulvaney has kindly agreed to lead a guided one hour walk from the Red Hill Cafe on Tuesday 14 December 2021, starting at 5.30pm. Michael (pictured above) will lead a light-hearted and entertaining twilight walk, explaining the ecological significance of Red Hill Nature Reserve and some of the plants
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The Regenerators have written to the Federal Defence Housing Authority to oppose the proposed housing development on the Lawson Grasslands. They wrote: I am writing in response to your invitation to comment on the proposed Lawson Grasslands development. I don’t believe that this development should proceed and there are many reasons for this.
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Our next work activity on Sunday 5 December 2021 will incorporate our AGM. We will work on chipping and beheading verbascum from 9am until morning tea at 11am. The AGM will be held at 11am. More information about the AGM can be found here.
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The Annual General Meeting of Red Hill Regenerators (Red Hill Bush Regenerators, RHR) will be held on Sunday 5 December at 11am on Red Hill Nature Reserve near Rusden Street, Garran. More… Documents regarding the AGM can be found here…
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The ACT Government has recently released the 284 page management plan including all Nature Reserves currently identified in the ACT. It can be downloaded here (13.8Mb). A couple of pages is devoted to each Nature Reserve, including the Red Hill Nature Reserve at page 222. The Plan commits to the following actions at Red Hill:
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The citizen science project to document Gang gang nesting and feeding behaviour is now underway. A summary of some of the main point are: * Over 300 citizen scientists have contributed 800 sightings of feeding Gang-Gangs over the platforms created for the project. An additional 1000 records have been collated from the records of three
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Welcome to our first, rain delayed post lockdown monthly work activity on Red Hill, on Sunday 14 November 2021 at 09.00am. While we have been locked down, the weeds have continued to flourish, despite some recent limited verbascum spraying by contractors. We are grateful to those volunteers who engaged in regular lock down exercise on
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