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didn't you tell me the whole of Townsville is regrowth/replant? Same with Darwin I assume
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I think what I would have said was that in the last 15yrs the local council have planted a very great many trees hundreds of thousands in fact, should they have kept more established trees you bet you bum they should. Haas the destruction of what remnant forest there was had a negative impact on the regional environment...yes it has, does the LGA recognise this..Yes, are they now (too late in many ways) trying to hang onto what very very few big old trees they have in the urban area...Yes......do I do all I can to help them achieve that...Yes
Eric I have many hundreds of unpleasant pics from down your way of the abortion that passes for urbanlandscape design right on your doorstep....remember me collecting data through Logan??
If you think the landscape of places like Robina is an improvement then we'll just have to agree to disagree, when I'm down in the Gold Coast I live about 10mins from Robina Station its
not pretty, and in 20yrs they'll be asking why the heck people over planted with non-local species that need so much maintenance.
The travesty that is the trees at New Farm is a fine example oif what happens when noone take the trouble to recognise that trees need to be managed, not ignored....if they'd been a line of rose gardens do you think the locals and the council would have let them decline into the state of collapse we see today? I think not.
This has been my point consistently....If quality Arborists are envolved at the concept stage of subdivisions and yes it can and does happen...even in Brisbane (granted not very often!) the there are many ways big established trees can be retained.
That very poor specimens are selected and damaged and exposed to all kinds of environmental forces they were never having to deal with in the forest is stupid....noone here has been advocating that?
