Friends of the Pinnacle
Community Weed Management Plan
The Friends of the Pinnacle have released their Community Weed Management Plan for The Pinnacle Nature Reserve (2010-2020). Please click here to access plan.
To make a comment please contact Pax, 6255 1095 or email fotpin@optusnet.com.au
Newsletter
Geographic Focus: The 128-hectare Pinnacle Nature Reserve, located south of the suburbs of Hawker and Weetangera, Belconnen.
Regular Walks and Working Bees: Guided walks are held every third Saturday morning of the month. Working parties are organised every Thursday and alternate Sunday mornings, weather permitting. The meeting point for guided walks and working parties is the De Salis Street carpark off Springvale Drive. Start/finish time depends on the season, generally 9.00am – noon in the cooler months.
Contact: Please contact Pax, 6255 1095 or email fotpin@optusnet.com.au for up-to-date information on our activities.
About Us:
Ecological communities at The Pinnacle Nature Reserve represent ecosystems of the ACT region now largely replaced by agriculture, forestry, urban and infrastructure development.
We seek to halt the decline of these ecological communities by better managing threats from inappropriate fire regimes, invasive weeds, grazing and disturbance by elevated rabbit and kangaroo populations, the insidious progression of erosion and the loss of endemic plant species. We also know that for people, enormous benefits flow from re-connecting with nature, the land and from working alongside others towards a common goal.
In May 2010 we released a draft Community Weed Management Plan for the Pinnacle Nature Reserve for community comment. This plan will be finalised early in 2011.
We are presently surveying and assessing erosion across the reserve and adjacent properties using the Landscape Function Analysis methodology developed by David Tongway and coworkers at the CSIRO. This will lead to preparation of a Land and Water Conservation Plan.
Bird and reptile surveys are ongoing. Rabbit populations are monitored regularly by mapping active burrow entrances. A comprehensive flora survey will be conducted in spring 2010 and, if our grant applications are successful, we will soon be trialing strategies for restoring native grasses.
The Friends are a highly motivated, well resourced and active group of people keen to implement an effective environmental management system for the reserve. We hope you will join us.