Tree planting on Scottsdale Reserve
Bush Heritage Australia WATree planting is essential to achieving Scottsdale Reserve's conservation goals which include:
- To restore habit such as breeding and food resources.
- To enhance landscape connectivity.
- To expand threatened ecological communities such as our Grassy Box Woodlands.
- To diversify plant genetics and improve the adaptability and resilience to climate change.
- To stabilise and enrich soils
- To increase diversity and abundance of native plants.
The Revegetation Program on Scottsdale involves a range of tasks which can be assigned according to the skills and experience of volunteers.
The holes will have already been dug and the ground will be easy to plant into.
Tasks include:
- Planting shrubs, tree, sedges and grasses into pre dug holes with hand trowels.
- Staking and stapling plants with Buh Heritage’s new 100% recyclable tree guards.
- Watering each plant using 10 litre buckets filled from a nearby water cube
- Recording the location, species and health of each plant on the iPad
Scottsdale Reserve is located 45 minutes south of Canberra nestled between the Murrumbidgee River and the Monaro Hwy.