17 years on…Currency Creek Lions Park restoration update
We love revisiting old revegetation sites!
Way back in 2009, Ben was working on a biodiversity restoration project at Currency Creek Lions Park, managing bushland areas for weeds while also revegetating vulnerable Allocasuarina verticillata open grassy woodland. The aim was to increase habitat and help push back a front of invasive grassy weeds by introducing competition through plantings of the same dominant shrubs and trees found in the surrounding bushland we were buffering.
With help from the Green Corp, we planted key local native species including Allocasuarina verticillata (Drooping Sheoak) and Acacia dodonaeifolia (Hop-leaf Wattle).
This week, Ben returned to the site and re-took the original photo points - 17 years later!
Ben’s summary of results
“It’s fair to say that planting dominant trees and shrubs at appropriate spacings - mirroring the structure of the bushland we were buffering - has reduced the density of veldt grass. More importantly, it has significantly increased habitat value for wildlife across the site.
This was only a one-year project, so the area has continued improving on its own since then (contingent on funding). The only downside was noticing some plastic plant sleeves still on site, which we’ll look to address.”
