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Banking for our future

The timing was perfect: between 450 and 500 trees were planted on the Sunday, just hours before the gorgeous rain set in.
Posted by glenbo in Environment & Wildlife on 08 Sep 2010 at 04:56 am

Sunday 05 September saw a successful day at the Riverbank Planting Project, on the gentle slopes adjoining Traveston Crossing Bridge.
Riverbank erosion affects all members of the Community ... it contributes to declining water quality in our streams, increases water treatment costs, and can result in the loss of quality agricultural land, property and Community infrastructure (such as bridges). In addition, sediment from failing riverbanks impacts on farmers who wish to irrigate, reduces habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms and can even have further serious impact on seagrass and dugong populations up in Hervey Bay.
The re-establishment of native riparian vegetation is an effective solution, and these Riverbank Stabilization Days are vital in maintaining the health of our river. Species planted included (from left to right in photo) - Lillypilly (will sucker and produce more stems to improve stabilisation); sandpaper fig; weeping bottlebrush (good stabilising plant for the stream edge, with bright red flowers); black tea-tree (the leaves contain aromatic essential oils, excellent as a shelter tree and colonising plant, and for erosion control on stream banks); mat rush (a good bank protection species, the flowers and white succulent leaf-bases of the new leaves are...
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