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Paisley Park a little safer
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Aerial view of Paisley Park (above) now fenced off with
Caring For Our Country funds which will help deter firewood collection
(below).
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Good
fences make good neighbours, poet Robert Frost said.
In the case of Paisley Park the new fence put up with Caring For Our
Country funds will deter one of the greatest threats to this grassy
woodland gem: illegal firewood collection. Purchased by Trust for Nature
in 2002, Paisley Park is a 12 acre block at Munro which builds upon the
excellent network of protected vegetation in the Perry River area. No
dieback is present in the canopy and few weeds have invaded. "This
is one of the few high quality remnants left on the plains. Even though
it is small there are very few remnants left of this quality. And with
less than 1% left of this endangered vegetation community there is an
urgency to protect all remnants," said Robyn Edwards, Trust for Nature’s
Gippsland regional manager. |
Red Gums are a key target
species for firewood collectors who had been caught red-handed in the reserve
taking trees in 2007. Six signs, which stated that the land was Trust for Nature
property and firewood collection was banned, also disappeared that year. Fencing
of this key remnant was one of the priority actions listed by the CMN and Trust
for Nature in the Caring For Our Country application. The fence is now up
and hopefully fewer trees will be coming down.
Unfortunately the fence will do little to abate the other threat to this
reserve: the neighbouring pine plantations. In 2002 Trust for Nature found just
one pine tree on the block. By 2007 that number had risen to 200. CMN ranger
Brett Mills removed them in a day and is continuing to work with plantation
company HVP on this issue.
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