Planting at Toolangi.
Image: Serene O'Halloran
Source: Museum Victoria
Degraded forestry site gets a little help from its friends.
Students, teachers and parents from Olinda Primary school, along with Museum horticulturalists and Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) staff, helped plant some new forest in Toolangi recently.
The seedlings planted in the degraded forestry site had spent the previous six months growing on display in Melbourne Museum’s Forest Gallery, demonstrating the regeneration of Mountain Ash forest following bushfire.
Museum staff Odetta Moore and Serene O’Halloran have now installed another 1200 locally sourced seedlings in the Forest Gallery’s seedling line displays. These will likewise be planted at an external location during next year’s Arbor week, when they have grown to suitable size.
This program has occurred twice a year since 2000 and looks set to continue, with enthusiastic support from both schools and Toolangi DSE staff.