Inglewood has a fire break and fire trail and had two extensive lengths of gorse infestation along the bushline on each side.
The photo comparison sites here are on the northern side of the Inglewood fire break and trail .
Work commenced in March 2007 and primary weeding finished in January 2012 and comprised 16 sessions.. The length of the site is 470 metres and the area infested over 2.4 hectares
Gorse was the most prominent weed and generally was tall and reasonably old. It lined the edge of the fire break and stretched into the bush in parts up to 80 metres in before running out. The densest was at the edge and the further in areas tended to be in thick pockets interspersed with weed free zones.
During 2008 and 2009 photos at specific locations were taken to allow comparison to be made over the years. Follow up photos were taken in November 2018 and showed that the gorse had not returned and the bush was recovering well now that the infestations had been removed.
The bush now looks better with good understory having devolved. The native vegetation is re-establishing throughout the area. There seems to be plans to have management burns in the area, which if it takes place will mar it for quite some time. From viewing the trees it does not appear that there have been any bushfires in the area for a great many years.
Several sites are now hard to identify, even though the coordinates are known. The area has changed considerably since it was infested with Gorse and looks good, but the monitoring lesson is to make sure that some easily identified feature is present, as was the case with site AS.
AS From distinct stump making it easier to locate with reasonable precision
AV Bush has changed a lot since 2008 but hopefully the site matches, but was too hard to locate in 2022
AW The barrier of gorse has gone allowing native vegetation to establish
AX
AY The bush at this location looks a great deal healthier
Note In some locations bracken ferns were either present or moved in once gorse was cleared but in many spots other vegetation has taken over from the fern. But this needs to be checked to establish if more of the area also show this or that the spots visited were not truly indicative.