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Spraying gorse on mullock heap

22/1/2021

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Gorse on ImLal South is under control. It's harder on the steep slopes of the mullock heap where we're trying a combo of digging, chainsaw cutting and spot spraying.
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New guards on what's left of the sequoia

12/10/2020

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Only seven of the original plot of 52 sequoias has survived the onslaught of the bouncing roos on the ImLal North site. They don't seem to like the swampy conditions much either. The sequoia pictured is as old as the young Nate on the left – 10yo and way behind Nate in the growth stakes.

Phil on the right shows his patented ring of steel  guard for keeping the roos at bay – for now.
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Building bridges on the bird survey transect

5/10/2020

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Phil continues high pruning of the ironbark

5/10/2020

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Culprit found who's churning up the earth

5/10/2020

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On the west side of ImLal South the ground is so holey, it's difficult to find a clear path in some places.

Gary was out measuring tree plots and came across the culprit attempting to hide  – as suspected, an echidna.

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Endangered hakea flourishing on the mullock heap

20/7/2020

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There’s still 28 of the locally endangered Hakea decurrens flourishing on the top of the mullock heap at ImLal. Everything else is taking a beating from the roos, wind and poor mullock heap soil (or lack of). They seem to have been flowering for ages.

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Removing plastic guards on plants at Footrot Flats

7/4/2020

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The rain came pouring down as I topped the mullock heap. Drenched, I must admit to descending gloomily to Footrot Flats, a soggy site south of the dam, where I thought our planting had totally failed. Not so – after record spring and summer rains and the warmth that comes with climate change, the hybrid eucs and Turkey oaks were rising from the dead. Many were becoming entangled in their plastic sleeves, so I removed the worst cases. Will now have to check whether or not they're more vulnerable to bouncing roos and ravaging wallabies.
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Thinning has saved the shrub layer along the west boundary

6/3/2017

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Thinning of swamp gum along the west boundary of ImLal South has successfully prevented them overwhelming the shrub layer. Five months after thinning, the cassinia, hop plants and tree violets are thriving.  Within this minimal intervention area, the plan is to alternate thickets of swamp gum with clumps of shrubs.
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Water, water everywhere

23/9/2016

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It's been a very wet early spring. The 'footy field' has reverted to a swamp. What few plants survived from last October planting day are now underwater (see bottom right). We'd better stick to reeds.

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Community planting day survival rate

15/12/2015

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Thirsty months for the plants since   over 3,000 put in at the beginning of October on bionic, forestry flat and footy field (aka direct seeding area on ImLal South). Phil pictured on the biolink. He has watered many of them twice since the planting day on Sunday 4 October.

Have had a 60-70% survival rate overall, although the Turkish oaks have had an 80% attrition rate.

Plants on W side of embankment looking particularly healthy.
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    Gib Wettenhall is interested in how  we carry out large scale landscape restoration that involves the people who live in those landscapes. That, he  believes, would build truly resilient landscapes.

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