Celebrating Nagambie’s Grey Box Grassy woodlands…under a shadow S25 Ep33

Nagambie locals and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority are celebrating 30 years of revegetation work with local native grey box trees grassy woodlands (trees and understory) on Friday. Classified as an endangered environmental community in 2010, Grey Box and derived Grassy Woodlands are iconic. This is our vegetation backyard in the Goulburn Valley. They have enjoyed 30 years of ecological restoration, and deserve some celebration.Celebrate! Friday Sept 12th, Somewhere Café on the Nagambie Lake, 9.30 to 12.But here’s the catch. At the same time, the Elloura Estate in Nagambie, on Vickers Road and reaching North to the lake edge, are again wanting to remove a healthy stand of aged mature Grey Box trees. The irony is breathtaking. Ellouramarkets itself as an exceptional masterplanned community…offering stunning water or park views. It takes so long to grow a stand of Grey Box trees and associated grassy woodlands(and a park view), but a housing estate wants to bulldoze a healthy cluster of this woodland. …Trees that are a focus for the estate (in a creative mindset) and offer shelter in hot weather and a changing climate. Exceptional planning?The 51 trees campaign saved these trees less than a decade ago, and now they return to the firing line.Donna Winter-Irving is an active Nagambie resident and neighbour to the development. Donna joins EarthChat to chat about the forthcoming Grey Box and Grassy Woodland event, and share her concerns about the threatened healthy cluster of mature Grey Box trees on the Elloura Estate.Lend us your ears for an hour - sizzle like a sausage.