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Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2005
Clark and Matheny published a model of urban forests sustainability in 1997 1 – I recall reading the article and thinking how far removed we were in Australia from such holistic tree management thinking – that was 1997 yet now 8 years on things look very different…
Author(s): Cockerel, Sarah
Year Published: 2004
This paper is an overview of a preliminary investigation into all tree avenues planted as War memorials throughout Australia. It cannot claim to be a complete record and in some ways serves only to highlight the gaps in our knowledge…
Author(s): Lawry, David | Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2015
A group of seven people from the community came together to help put together an amazing project which was delivered…
Year Published: 2015
A recent request to write briefly about the trends affecting Australian arboriculture proved to be a difficult
task. In considering a country that is continental, there is great variability – north south, east, west, urban,
regional and rural, tropical and temperate…
Author(s): Fakes, Judy | Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2019
Greg Moore and Judy Fakes recap on the Day One experience for delegates…
Year Published: 2018
Urban forest structures are defined by the spatial arrangement between vegetation and the built environment, within urban areas. These are often shaped by urban forest strategies that are defined by
the relationship between anthropogenic and natural processes in the city…
Author(s): Levett, Peter | Young, Peter
Existing Infrastructure, TreeNet Inlet Trials, Methodology, Rain Garden Development, and Future applications…
Author(s): Kearney, Bob
Believe it or not you and me and my mates at the Virtual War Memorial have a lot in common – but we have to dig a bit to understand why…
Author(s): Leadbeater, Steve
Year Published: 2006
The purpose of this paper is to explore the conflicting challenges faced by many utilities, Councils, and Road Transport Authorities (RTA) when managing vegetation on road reserves, and the impact of conflicting messages emerging from the industry…
Author(s): Cameron, Donald
Year Published: 2015
In the geotechnical engineer’s mind, complex natural systems like trees and their interaction with the soil and the atmosphere need to be simplified into more manageable concepts. To a lesser degree, the same could be said of agronomists and foresters…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2000
The role of trees in the urban landscape is essential not only to the aesthetics of cities, but also for the well-being of their citizens. Australians tend to take their parks, avenues and boulevards for granted, but in recent years there has been a significant loss of public open space, and a series of dramatic and often unintended attacks on trees growing in urban environments…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2010
A moderated forum on maintaining and renewing the urban forest…
Author(s): Ellis, Maree | Faulconer, Patrick
Year Published: 2004
Shoalhaven City Council has revised its Tree Preservation Order. It now exempts “Tree works on private land where any part of a tree is above a line 45 degrees from the vertical extension of the wall of any building measured from its base”. This rule is confusing and it does not work…
Author(s): Brown, Ian
Year Published: 2003
Tree Trial: Do we need one? Is anybody interested?
In the ideal Nursery world we could all still be growing trees in kerosene containers…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2011
The Newcastle City Council Tree Asset Management System (TAMS) records 109,000 street and park trees of which 1217 are the Hills Fig (Ficus microcarpa var Hilli). The Hills Fig public tree population comprises 832 semi-mature trees and 374 mature trees…
Year Published: 2017
Rapid environmental change presents many challenges and uncertainties for planners and decision makers of both urban and natural vegetation. Changes to current practices are needed, based on understanding conditions expected in the future, rather than relying on historical conventions…
Author(s): Lodge, Marcus
Year Published: 2007
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (River Red Gum) is a large tree reaching 25-35 metres in height with a broad spreading crown. As the tree matures it can develop buttress roots from its very thick trunk. Eucalyptus camaldulensis is the most wide spread and best known of the Australian eucalypts…
Author(s): Lawton, Peter
Year Published: 2003
The trial set out to develop ideas for a simple, low cost flood and drain rack – for use with a proposed new family of 3D air-pruning propagation cells. The cells and their nursery environment are being designed to work in harmony…
Author(s): Mowling, Frances
Year Published: 2008
The implications of climate change on the availability of water in the landscape are profound, particularly in regard to environmental water requirements that maintain biodiversity and water quality. Water supply and quality are likely to be affected by higher air temperatures, increased evaporation rates and projected changes in amount and seasonality of rainfall…
Author(s): Norris, Martin
Year Published: 2010
Broadly speaking, an act of God is a contract or tort law defence for an event (accident) that was caused by natural forces that were outside human control and that could not have been prevented by ordinary skill and foresight…
Author(s): Hart, Andrew
Year Published: 2015
Adelaide Botanic Garden First Creek Wetland from the Curator Andrew Hart…
