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Working with Greencorps 2009

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Sunday 26th July Working Bee

 

At Left Past President of the Rotary Club of Keilor East Arnold Vandenham and at right Ian Wheeler of Friends Of  The Maribyrnong Valley.
 

Green Corps

 


Expedition of FMV committee along the riverbank adjacent to the north Maribyrnong Defence Site, December 2004.
 

Looking upstream from the hairpin bend, boxthorn and lignum frame the landscape.

 

View of north bank showing the undercut and need for remediation

 

Redgums on L and R probably regrown from trees felled in early 1900s.

 

Intrepid FMV exploration party, L-R Bronwyn, Ian, Fred, Lorraine, Don.

 

Ian with stump thought to be a Sheoak, Casuarina felled in early 1900s. This might have been a standing tree when Grimes and Flemming passed in 1803!

 

Lorraine and Bronwyn looking at a part of the 2002 planting where Phragmites is taking over.

 

North bank of river showing undercut requiring attention


 

North bank showing section that has been repaired and section undercut.

 

 

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