Friends of John Forrest National Park (FoJFNP, managed by DBCA, not SoM).
Email them to join:
friendsofjohnforrestnp@gmail.com
The Shire of Mundaring (SoM) in the Perth Hills has 79 registered bushcare groups, as at late 2023. To join one contact the Community Landcare Officer at the SoM on 9290 6774
Friends of Falls Park and heritage trail Parkerville Hovea
(FoFP, managed by SoM).
Jane Brook Catchment Group Inc.
Roving Rehabilitators, run directly by Shire of Mundaring (SoM).
All about Margaret
Mix Margaret Dylan Jones
W.A. composer, pianist, teacher, article writer, lyricist
Bushcare
My involvement and links.
Perth Hills, Western Australia
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Right click to download: Why SoM Volunteers Should Use Herbicides.pdf (sent to Shire 20 November 2024)
Bushcare Info, Chat & Music (BICM) is a series of events to promote bushcare focused on weed control, featuring interesting speakers plus my music and sometimes other musicians. Details are updated here.
BICM events are held every two or three months in 2024 & 2025, in venues around the Mundaring Hills area.
Next event:
BICM 5: POSTPONED from Nov 2024 to a Sunday afternoon some time in Feb 2025.
Held at Mundaring Uniting Church, 120 Stoneville Road (near the traffic lights, opposite KFC).
2pm to 4pm. Gold coin entry includes afternoon tea and a raffle ticket for a prize.
Nov 2024 programme was to have been as follows:
- Margaret D. Jones, original piano solos.
- Peter Kendrick, PhD. An illustrated talk on Pilbara weeding -- it's dynamite.
- Storme Reeves, original songs with piano/guitar.
Display items include information on bushcare, volunteer Friends groups, seedlings from the Shire, and controlling invasive environmental weeds. We’ll have example weeds on display.
Friends group members will be present and available to chat.
Get this wonderful new book on sale: The Nature of the Jarrah Forest, by Eric McCrum & his daughter Janine McCrum, $50 cash only.
Produced by Margaret Jones with assistance of members of Jane Brook Catchment Group Inc., members of Friends groups registered with the Shire of Mundaring in Hovea, Mundaring and Mount Helena, and members of Friends of John Forrest National Park (registered with the DBCA).
Would YOUR bushcare group like to be involved in one of these events, in your local hall?
Contact me, Margaret Jones, ASAP. Mobile 0414 374 701. mxmargaretjones@gmail.com
What is your vision for the massive forest we live in?
BICM 4: Sunday 25th August 2024
Mundaring Uniting Church, 120 Stoneville Road (near the traffic lights, opposite KFC).
2pm to 4pm. Gold coin entry includes afternoon tea and a raffle ticket for a prize.
Guest speakers:
- Andrew Wallace, outstanding young local naturalist.
- David Newsome: PhD, Emeritus Associate Professor, Environment and Conservation (Murdoch), will give an illustrated talk on why are weeds such a problem.
- Una Bell will treat us to a potted plant display including Wallaby grasses.
Live music is by Margaret D. Jones
Display items include information on bushcare, volunteer Friends groups, seedlings from the Shire, and weed control. We’ll have example weeds in pots.
Friends group members will be present and available to chat.
Get this wonderful new book on sale: The Nature of the Jarrah Forest, by Eric McCrum & his daughter Janine McCrum, $50 cash only.
Hosted again by Jane Brook Catchment Group Inc., with assistance of members of Friends groups registered with the SoM in Mundaring and Mount Helena.
BICM Event Three: Sunday 23rd June 2024
This time it's in the Mundaring Uniting Church, 120 Stoneville Road (near the traffic lights, opposite KFC).
Drop-in between 2pm and 4:30pm. Gold coin entry includes afternoon tea and a raffle ticket for a prize.
Guest speakers:
- Eric McCrum
- Una Bell: how to distinguish native grasses from weed grasses.
Live music is by Margaret D. Jones
Display items include information on bushcare, volunteer Friends groups, seedlings from the Shire, and weed control. We’ll have example weeds in pots.
Friends group members will be present and available to chat.
Get this wonderful new book on sale: The Nature of the Jarrah Forest, by Eric McCrum & his daughter Janine McCrum, $50 cash only.
Hosted this time by Jane Brook Catchment Group Inc., with assistance of members of Friends groups registered with the SoM in Mundaring and Mount Helena.
BICM Event Two: Sunday 14th April 2024
16 min video of Event Two
Margaret Forrest Centre inside John Forrest National Park. Drop-in between 2pm and 4:30pm. Includes afternoon tea. Free car entry at the gatehouse, gold coin entry to the venue. The lovely MFC shares a roof with the Rangers Office in the picnic area.
Guest speakers: Val English, Paul Udinga (the Senior Ranger at JFNP), and Joe (Julian) King.
Live music is by Margaret Jones.
Groups for this event:
Friends of Falls Park and heritage trail Parkerville Hovea
Friends of John Forrest National Park
14 min video of Event One (Feb 2024 in Parkerville).
The first event was an outstanding success even though it had to be postponed from January to a new day, date, time and venue as below, due to ceiling damage. From the flyer:
Event One (new booking): 2pm to 4:30pm (drop-in any time) SUNDAY 11th February at Parkerville Oval Pavilion, 580 Seaborne Street, Parkerville. Gold coin entry. Afternoon tea included.
All local Mundaring residents and others including YOU and your friends are invited.
Display items include information on bushcare, volunteer Friends groups, seedlings from the Shire, and weed control. We'll have example weeds in buckets.
Friends group members will be present to chat, interspersed with live music by Margaret Jones.
Groups for the first event (both are on Facebook):
Friends of Falls Park and heritage trail Parkerville Hovea
Friends of John Forrest National Park
We love to share what we've been doing for bushcare in this vicinity and we're always looking for new members. We have plenty of local bushcare things to talk about including planting local native seedlings from the SoM, weed control methods, and how to identify and deal with invasive plants.
Your moral support means a lot to us even if you're not in a position to participate. Perhaps you have questions, or stories to tell of your own bushcare activities.
Show us you care — see you there!
Get this wonderful new book on sale: The Nature of the Jarrah Forest, by Eric McCrum & Janine McCrum, $50 cash only. Eric will be there.
The first in a unique series of bushcare info & music events around the Shire of Mundaring produced by Mx Margaret D. Jones (she or they), local musician, composer, and teacher.
Short VIDEOS of
these events
16 min video of Event Two (April 2024 in JFNP)
14 min video of Event One (Feb 2024 in Parkerville)
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