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Quarry pays for state park trees for a comprehensive management plan to assess the site for weeds, identify restorative flora species, grow the appropriate species, organise weed removal works in preparation for planting and plan for ongoing maintenance”. In 2018, weeds such as blackberry, watsonia, pittosporum, cape ivy, Spanish heath, tree tobacco and boneseed removed from the creek line. Weed control had continued to enable the Wednesday 19 May plantings of coastal manna gums, manna gums, swamp gums and peppermint on the sides of the creek line and path. “Too often grants are short-term and focus in on only one element of bushland restoration - this is ineffective to repair the damage to our environment and our diverse habitats suffer,” Mr Fitzgerald said. He said the relationship between the Habitat Restoration Fund and Hillview Quarries started in 2011 “and has consistently achieved positive outcomes for the state park”. Keith Platt
STAFF from Hillview Quarries joined members of the Habitat Restoration Fund to plant 100 trees in Arthurs Seat State Park. The trees planted on land managed by Parks Victoria above the Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana were paid for by a seven-year grant from Hillview to the restoration fund. The Habitat Restoration Fund was started in 2006, “by a group of people who wanted to take a more hands on approach to preserving their local environment”. “The quarry crew offered a combination of enthusiasm, dedication, horticultural skill and area expertise to the job in just two hours, under direction of the Habitat Restoration Fund,” Greg Fitzgerald, who heads the fund’s board, said. “Habitat restoration in our natural bushland requires a long-term view approach and thanks to Hillview Quarries and the Ross Trust, this seven-year grant was awarded in 2018 to the Habitat Restoration Fund for works in this Parks Victoria site.” Mr Fitzgerald said the long-term grant “allows Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au
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lection to Parks Victoria or the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.” There are concerns dredging by DELWP of 20,000 cubic metres of sand to replenish McCrae beach may be contributing to the starfishes’ proliferation. DELWP said the works were designed “to avoid impacting any marine values and coastal vegetation” (“Denial over ‘threat’ to marine life” The News 19/4/21). “Our marine biodiversity and natural environment team experts have confirmed there are no specific concerns relating to the project with regards to land-based coastal vegetation, the reef, or the plants and animals that inhabit it,” Port Phillip regional director Stephen Chapple said. Long-time beach users reported that marine creatures were being “shredded” by the dredging machines. Ms Jones said rather than harming the starfish this may help them regenerate and proliferate and disseminate thousands of eggs. “Dredging has been linked to the redistribution of the starfish in the past,” she said. “I suspect the McCrae outbreak came from the dredge.
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