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• Hollywood Reserve - Upgrade of Footpaths - Update

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  The City has now completed path upgrades in the northern section of Hollywood Reserve on Friday 17 May.

  Park benches and picnic tables along the new pathways will be upgraded with concrete slabs in the coming months to assist the City meet its disability access requirements.

  Updates on the project will be provided as the project progresses.

  For further information, please contact Vicki Shannon, the City’s Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500, or email vshannon@nedlands.wa.gov.au

  
  

• Swanbourne Dunes - Coastwest Grant - update

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  The City of Nedlands in partnership with the Swanbourne Coastal Alliance and the Western Australian Planning Commission’s Coastwest Program are implementing a coastal restoration project along the primary dunes in Swanbourne.

  Site preparation has been progressing well. Brushing works have commenced and weed control is ongoing. The site is on track to be plants with local provenance seedlings in June.

  This project will assist the City to reduce erosion, control environmental weeds as well as increase habitat and improve ecological corridors.

  For queries, please contact the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500. Further updates on this project will be posted on this page.

• Point Resolution Reserve - River foreshore restoration

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  The City of Nedlands, in collaboration with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Riverbank Program are implementing another river foreshore restoration project along the Point Resolution Reserve foreshore.
  
  Recently contractors controlled invasive weeds and another section of brush walling is due to be installed along the north western boundary during March/April, which will extend the previously installed brush walling. The brush walling is being installed in preparation for fringing foreshore revegetation works that are scheduled during the winter months.

  This project involves:

  • Stabilising and protecting existing vegetation
  • Removing invasive weeds
  • Revegetating degraded areas in order to increase biodiversity, improve habitat and protect the foreshore from tidal and storm surges.

  
  

  For queries, please contact the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator, Vicki Shannon on (08) 9273 3500. Further updates will be posted on this page.
  

• Hollywood Reserve - Upgrade of Footpaths - Completed

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  The City has now completed path upgrades in the northern section of Hollywood Reserve on Friday 17 May.

  Park benches and picnic tables along the new pathways will be upgraded with concrete slabs in the coming months to assist the City meet its disability access requirements.

  Updates on the project will be provided as the project progresses.

  For further information, please contact Vicki Shannon, the City’s Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500, or email vshannon@nedlands.wa.gov.au

  

  
  

• Point Resolution Reserve - River foreshore restoration - Update

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  The City of Nedlands, in collaboration with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Riverbank Program are currently implementing another river foreshore restoration project along the Point Resolution Reserve foreshore.

  This project is progressing well with brush wailing installed in April and weed control ongoing. The site is on track to be planted with local provenance seedlings in June.

  For queries, please contact the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator, Vicki Shannon on (08) 9273 3500. Further updates will be posted on this page.
  

• Swanbourne Dunes - Coastwest Grant

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  The City of Nedlands in partnership with the Swanbourne Coastal Alliance and the Western Australian Planning Commission’s Coastwest Program are implementing a coastal restoration project along the primary dunes in Swanbourne.

  This project aims to increase the ecological integrity of the entire coastal corridor by enhancing linkages to adjacent bushland areas north and south in Cottesloe and Cambridge.

  Brushing is due to be installed on degraded areas in the coming weeks prior to winter revegetation works that will install approximately 6000 local provenance species. Ongoing weed control will also be undertaken throughout the project.

  This project will assist the City to reduce erosion, control environmental weeds as well as increase habitat and improve ecological corridors.

  For queries, please contact the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500. Further updates on this project will be posted on this page.

  
  

• Hollywood Reserve - Upgrade of Footpaths

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  The City will be upgrading pathways in the northern section of Hollywood Reserve (see map below by clicking on the heading) the week commencing the 15 April for a period of four days.

  Pathways will be closed between the hours of 7am – 4pm and pedestrians will be diverted to adjacent pathways and gates for access to Karrakatta Cemetery, Smyth Road and Karella Street.

  The pathways are being upgraded in accordance with the City’s Natural Area Path Network Policy. Once upgraded they will consist of red asphalt. Updates on the project will be provided as the project progresses.

  For further information, please contact Vicki Shannon, the City’s Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500, or email vshannon@nedlands.wa.gov.au

  

• Bushland Areas - Weed Control Program

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  The City's contractors commenced the annual bushland reserves environmental weed control program in July and have completed the grass control program. The contractors will be continuing with bulbous weed control until mid-October.

  The control environmental weeds is being undertaken in the following bushland areas:

  • Shenton Bushland
  • Allen Park
  • Hollywood Reserve
  • Birdwood Parade
  • Point Resolution
  • Mount Claremont Oval Reserve
  • Mount Claremont Community Centre
  • Swanbourne Estate

  The City will be focusing on the control of bulbous weeds, and annual and perennial grass weeds using the herbicides listed below:

  
  

  • Metsulfuron-methyl: used to control bulbous weeds
  • 2 2-DPA (Dalapon): used to control bulbous weeds
  • Glyphosate: used in conjunction with metsulfuron-methyl to control bulbous weeds
  • Fusilade: used to control annual and perennial grass weeds.

  Signage will be displayed whilst these works are occurring.

  
  

  For further information, please contact Vicki Shannon, the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500, or email vshannon@nedlands.wa.gov.au.

  
  

  The City undertakes environmental weed control to improve biodiversity values and to reduce the negative impacts environmental weeds that weeds cause to the ecosystems, for example they compete with the native plants, thereby reducing the species and diversity for both flora and fauna.

  
  

  Environmental weeds causes erosion, alters water availability, changes soil nutrients, increases the likelihood of bush fires, and changes the vegetation communities within bushland areas.

  
  

• Grass Tree Burning - Shenton Bushland - completed

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  The City completed the grass tree burning at Shenton Bushland on Tuesday the 21 August. The grass trees were burnt to reduce fine fuel loads within the reserve and the burnt areas will be monitored to assess weed growth and native flora regeneration.

  The City burning of dead grass tree skirts was undertaken across approximately two hectares of the Shenton bushland.

  This project aimed to reduce fine fuel loads within the hazard separation zone in the reserve. Shenton bushland has a high proportion of grass trees with many having long unburnt dead skirts which are a source of fine fuels. Fine fuel loads consist of grasses and small twigs which are less than 6mm in diameter.

  These fine fuels contribute to the intensity and spread of fire in the event of an unplanned fire and this work will assist the City to help protect property by reducing the build-up of flammable fuel loads.

  For further information, please contact Vicki Shannon, the City's Environmental Conservation Coordinator on (08) 9273 3500, or email vshannon@nedlands.wa.gov.au.

  
  

• Coastwest Program - Marine Parade

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  The City of Nedlands in conjunction with the Swanbourne Coastal Alliance received over $20,000 in funding from the Western Australian Planning Commission through the Coastwest Grants Program 2017/18.

  This funding is being used to restore a degraded area along Marine Parade. The project is now over half way complete with stabilisation and revegetation works complete and ongoing weed management scheduled to continue through spring and early summer.

  This project will increase the ecological value of the coastal dunes by reducing erosion and invasive weeds, as well as increasing habitat for animals and improving the aesthetics of the area once the plantings mature.