News (2024)

  Two information and interpretive signs were recently installed on Red Hill. The purpose is to inform and educate walkers and visitors about the ongoing extensive weed control effort being funded by the ACT Government and managed by Regenerator volunteers, and to encourage support for this project. The signs can be found along the ridge […]

This month our excellent spray contractors completed 129 hours of St John’s Wort spraying as part of a $15,000 grant from the Community Stewardship Weed Control Program. The work extended the previously sprayed area at the southern end of the reserve, including the large knoll near Hindmarsh Drive.  This project is part of the larger

Our previous work activity on 1 December 2024, to water our parched plants, was ironically rained off after the previous day’s falls of over 50mm. So two weeks later, we plan to return to provide some follow up watering and to cut/dab lots of briar rose and verbascum along the ridge above Garran. We have

We have experienced very low rainfall on Red Hill since August, and with the summer and hot weather already here, our latest plantings are unlikely to survive the summer without extra watering.  So, on Sunday 1 December 2024 we plan to water these young plantings from two filled water cubes located on the ridge above

On Wednesday 16 October 2024 we plan to work along the ridge south of the Davidsons Trig undertaking verbascum and thistle rosette chipping and cut/dab emerging weeds. There are a large number of briar rose bushes which are growing strongly, along with Nettle trees coming into leaf, privet and the usual supply of other common

On Sunday 6 October 2024 we plan to continue with weed removal (mostly Cootamundra wattle, Olive bushes, privet seedlings) in the bushland area above the Deakin suburb cut off drain, between Strickland Crescent and Kent Street. We will work along the slope westwards towards Kent Street, from the cut off drain along the suburb edge,

Castiarina xystra is a jewel beetle that has only been recorded once before on Black Mountain in the 1930s, was recently recorded on Red Hill, near Kent Street. Keep your eyes out for this rare beetle and report any sighting via Canberra Nature Map You can see more about this beetle at: https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4594356

Owing to a number of critical absences, we have brought the mid month activity forward from 18 September to Wednesday 11 September. On Wednesday we plan to continue with weed removal (mostly Cootamundra wattle, Olive bushes, privet seedlings) in the bushland area above the Deakin suburb cut off drain from Strickland Crescent to Kent Street.

The Walter Burley Griffin Society has published a very informative brochure titled ‘Following the Griffin Trail in Canberra‘, which includes a brief description of the existing heritage listed red flowering plantings of Callistemon and Grevillea to be found near the summit of Red Hill Nature Reserve. More information about these plantings can be found here.

To RHR members Thank you for your interest in Red Hill Nature Reserve and the Red Hill Regenerators. The group is managed by an active committee and all the committee members are standing for re-election at the 2024 AGM on Sunday 1 September 2024. However, as we expand our activities outlined in the President’s Annual