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LLS sign identifying the fenced project site comprising hundreds of locally grown native trees including Swamp Mahogany.
Weed Control & Revegetation on Landcare Site at Ourimbah
Local Land Services Grant GS01664
Project Grant GS01664
Local Land Services (LLS) provided the Palm Grove Ourimbah Creek Landcare group (PGOC Landcare) with a grant aimed at improving local areas for threatened species of fauna. The project site has transformed a heavily weed infested area of privet, honey suckle and blackberry into an area of regenerating native vegetation including Swamp Mahogany and other endemic species from the seed of mature trees already growing nearby on the Landcare site.
The project site is located adjacent to the main access track about 200 metres north of the container storage area on the Palm Grove Ourimbah Creek Landcare site. The site was chosen to enhance food and habitat areas of targeted threatened species of native fauna.
Grant Project
The project has delivered the grant’s intended outcomes (weeding, planting and fencing the site to exclude animal grazing) to re-establish continuity of the EEC Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains on the Landcare site.
The project selected an area of cleared vegetation that disrupted an important continuous native vegetation corridor of Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains. Rehabilitation of this site infills a missing link where the establishment of the Swamp Mahogany vegetation community provides continuity to an important vegetative corridor.
Landcare members working on the project site with the water bore in the right foreground
Locally grown trees ready for planting on the project site (above).
Landcare plant nursery used to establish endemic Swamp Mahogany and other native trees from seed harvested on site for the project (below).
The project controlled dense areas of weed infestation of Privet, Honey Suckle and Blackberry on the site that was cut and poisoned. This enabled the planting of the EEC native species on the site after it was fenced to protect the project area from grazing animals like wallabies. The ‘before and after’ monitoring photos / transects provide a documented change that now favours restoration of the desired EEC vegetation for the target threatened species of native fauna. This is providing linkage with the adjacent corridor of Swamp Mahogany vegetation.
This corridor adds to the value of the whole area of the Landcare site as it is identified as an important regional corridor of native vegetation that connects the western Ourimbah Forest vegetation communities with the riparian vegetation communities adjacent to the Ourimbah Creek corridor. In addition the area is an important part of the west-east vegetation corridors either side the M1 motorway.
PGOC Landcare committed to the planting of endemic tree species through in-kind contributions to deliver the following:
on-site collection of seed of target native species particularly Swamp Mahogany
propagation of seed and the establishment of tube stock plants and
planting of the established Swamp Mahogany and other native plants on the project site
The Landcare Group will ensure the regeneration of the native trees on the project site through its maintenance of the protective fencing and the control of the targeted environmental weeds.
2022 2023
Monitoring Photo Set 1: Project Site from drone looking north from southern end
Project site with heavy infestation of privet prior to works in 2022 Project site with weeds controlled after works in 2023
Monitoring Photo Set 2: Project Site looking west to the water bore from eastern side
Weed infested site looking west to the water bore from eastern side BEFORE works Privet controlled and planted site looking west to the water bore from eastern side AFTER works
Monitoring Photo Set 3: Project Site looking east over the water bore from western side
Weed infested site looking east over the water bore BEFORE project works in 2022 Weed controlled and planted site looking east over the water bore AFTER project works in 2023
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