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• Recent Posts

  • Curving a shared path around trees 26.5.2012
  • My two bob’s worth 25.5.2012
  • SOF Submission on Laman Street 25.5.2012
  • Put in a submission to the Laman Street Rehab Project 23.5.2012
  • Has Frank made threats against the Council St Hill’s figs now? 20.5.2012
  • Arthur Park. Vandals. 18.5.2012
  • Going, going, gone 17.5.2012
  • Monitored Moreton Bay 11.5.2012

• Pages

  • About us :) The blog about Newcastle’s mature street trees
    • About Us part 2
    • Mike Ellison’s response to Newcastle City Council 20.1.2012
  • Corrections to Cr Cook’s YouTube video
  • Index
  • SOF Response to Cr Cook’s ‘Litany of Lies’
  • Some Figs that have not Fallen Over
  • Some Sydney pics: do these remind you of anywhere?
  • The Shame File
  • What will Laman Street look like without trees?
  • What’s the story behind Save Our Figs?
  • You should nominate for the ‘Design’ Workshop
  • Almost ten years of media reporting on being ‘beyond tree preservation’
  • Key documents and links

• Save the Laman St. Fig Trees

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• Mark Hartley’s second report on Laman Street

  

• GBG’s Original report of radar root mapping

  

• Treelogic assessments of Laman Street

  

• Rally and protest for Laman Street

  

• Treesaving year in Laman Street

  

• Laman St Civic Park Design Framework pics selection

  

• Anzac Centennial Place

  

• Underwhelming storm damage

  

• Civic Park preliminary plans

  

• Flying foxes in the Hunter

  

• Ground-penetrating radar report

  

• Fig trees in Newcastle

  

• Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour

  

• (Mostly) public art in Newcastle

  

• NCIG coal piles on Kooragang

  

• Wingham and Wingham Brush

  

• Blogroll

  • 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees
  • Arbor Day Foundation
  • Arid Plant manual from the University of Arizona
  • Avenues of Honour 1915-2015
  • Energy Australia's guide to planting near powerlines
  • LEAF
  • Metro trees
  • National Register of Big Trees
  • National Trust – Newcastle and Hunter
  • National Trust of Australia
  • Newcastle City Councillors
  • NewcastleOnHunter
  • Open Architecture Network
  • Our Green Corridor
  • Parks and Playgrounds movement
  • SA Urban Forests Million Trees Program
  • Save Our Rail
  • Save the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour petition
  • Save the Laman Street online petition
  • Saving Our Trees website for Sydney's inner West
  • Sydney City Council's Significant Tree Register
  • Toronto Tree Tours
  • Transition Town Newcastle
  • Tree quotes
  • treenet
  • Trees in Newcastle
  • Underground Buildings: Architecture and Environment
  • Veteran Tree Group
  • WordPress.com
  • WordPress.org

• community activism

  • Newcastle City Councillors' contact details
  • Protect Empire Park
  • Save Our Rail
  • Transition Town Newcastle

• trees

  • Brisbane CBD Tree Trail
  • Figs – Stranglers and Banyans
  • Specimen Tree Nursery – Mature Trees Photo Gallery

• urban forest

  • Brisbane CBD Tree Trail

• vandalism

  • Arnold Street photos: where council allowed poisoning of camphor laurels
  • Save the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour petition

• Council Felling Two CBD Plane Trees

  

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