Here’s proof that NCC has the will to look after some fig trees. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘tree preservation’
Ravenshaw Figs: Congrats to NCC 4.1.2012
January 4, 2012Pruning Laman Street 7.7.2011
July 7, 2011
Lopped tree from council's website
This is a photo of the sort of tree management practices that We Don’t Approve Of Any More. (more…)
Heritage-listed trees 4.3.2011
March 4, 2011
Happy fig tree news this week from the Lord Mayor’s column in the Star newspaper, sent to me by a fellow treehugger. (more…)
Council’s motion 17.12.2010
December 17, 2010
These are the council trucks that were parked in Laman Street on the morning of the meeting where council was to hear that the pull test was being recommended against by council staff. There’s a tree mulcher and a crane. Allegedly these are the vehicles they drive around any old time and they were just changing light globes. Whatever.
This is the motion council approved this week:
Chief arborist says ‘We have moved beyond tree preservation’
March 20, 2010
This is just a quick note to ask a question. (more…)
Questioning tree risk calculation
March 16, 2010
I sent an email this morning (more…)
Still waiting to hear about the charade/charette
March 10, 2010
People risking their lives at the laman Street art bazaar a couple of years ago
Am I like the distant relative waiting for the wedding invitation that never comes? (more…)
A town that wants to conserve its fig
March 9, 2010
A friend sent me a link to the article below, ‘Save our Fig’. (more…)
Tree Preservation in America
March 8, 2010
The before shot
I found a US website that promotes what I presume is a group of private arboricultural companies who work to maintain mature trees and improve their root systems. (more…)
Tree removed 2007- potentially unstable
March 6, 2010
This picture was taken and sent to me by Doug Lithgow from the Parks and Playgrounds Movement. (more…)
