HARROGATE CEMETERY BURNT TREE REMOVAL PROGRESS

The Harrogate cemetery fire affected tree works have been progressing well with the pines being felled ready for processing and removal from the site.

Logs and stumps will be shredded on site very soon and the course material removed to be further processed and refined into various landscape materials.

The area of ground subject to tree removals will then be groomed and tidied ready for restoration of indigenous flora and other plantings.

Councils ‘hollows for habitat‘ program will be extended to some of the dead gum trees at the site from some bushfire biodiversity funding.

Some living pines are being retained for amenity purposes to assist in the gentle transition of the landscape. Council is working closely with remnant vegetation and biodiversity experts at the site and there will be some dead pines retained in some spots in order to protect some rare flora and an emerging indigenous seed bank. Selected removal of the remaining dead pines will occur over time in a sensitive manner in order to progress the transition of the landscape.