First Progress Report - 3. to identify and mark tree/shrub juveniles for monitoring of control by partial breaking of stems
Some tree privet and Eleagnus were partially broken down during informal survey of the roadside canopy margin in 2018, as an ad hoc intervention to release adjacent juvenile native trees. The results are interesting, and the method has been used, and continues to be closely monitored, at our volunteer trial project site "Gahnia Grove", in Eskdale Reserve.
We have marked with orange tape some of the specimens in Witheford Reserve treated this way in 2018, and added some new examples. The technique has been shown to the Wildlands team manager in anticipation of their annual Ecocontract weed control operation this week. The information was supportively received and we look forward to sharing results of this collaboration.
In an example of similar collaboration, we are pleased to now have documentation of a brush wattle c. 15cm diameter, felled June 2018 in Gahnia Grove by Wildlands without chemicals or further intervention at our request, the stump now demonstrably dead and decaying.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/21645538
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