Bush Regeneration & More in Sydney

The Hills Shire Council 1998 – 2009
Fred Caterson Reserve, Castle Hill – Bush Regenerator of remnant Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, 2006 – June 2009

Annangrove Park, Annangrove – Regenerator of Turpentine Ironbark Forest, and Sydney Sandstone vegetation, 2000 – 2009

Cattai Creek Headwaters – Bush regeneration of remnant Shale Sandstone Transition Forest and planting of 14,000 plants in riparian areas of Cattai Creek over a three year period, 2003 – 2006

Cockayne Reserve – Bush regenerator of remnant Shale Sandstone Transition Forest and Riverflat Forest at Castle Hill, 2002 – ongoing

Michael Duggin Drain, Lower Portland – Regeneration and reconstruction of Riverflat Forest, 2002 – 2006

Col Sutton Park, Baulkham Hills – Hand weeding and spot spraying of weeds in bushland in Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, along a cycleway adjoining Col Sutton Park, 1999

Sophia Doyle Reserve, Baulkham Hills – Target weeding of woody weeds in Hawkesbury Sandstone Gully Forest, 1998

Australand 2009
25 Best St, Lane Cove – Bush regeneration weeding works at the 1493m2 bushland Lot 229, as depicted on Strata Plan 43337, survey reference 9294, and as stipulated by Lane Cove Council

Liverpool City Council 2008
Maxwell’s Creek Reserve, off Kurrajong Road, Prestons – Bush regeneration and re-vegetation works throughout 2008. These works included bush regeneration weed control, re-vegetation of Cumberland Plain Woodland, and Shale Gravel Transition Forest, and a 12 month maintenance period.

Baulderstone and Hornibrook 2007 – 2009
Second Ponds Creek, Windsor Rd Upgrade, Rouse Hill – Bush regenerator and restoration project works for the Roads and Traffic Authority, and Baulderstone Hornibrook. These works included utilising bushland regeneration weed control techniques, and bushland reconstruction plantings, to restore local native and endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland, and Riverflat Forest plant associations, at the site, and to make these areas resistant to future weed colonization and establishment-related threats throughout the designated project areas. Particular attention was also given to ensure the preservation of habitat for the Cumberland Plain Land Snail.

Viewbrook Investments 2006 – 2009
Lot 7 and part of Lot 5, 356 Old Windsor Rd Seven Hills – Vegetation management plan works. These works involved bushland regeneration weed control and bushland reconstruction plantings to restore local native Cumberland Plain Woodland, Riverflat Forest, and Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, plant associations at the site, and to make these areas resistant to future weed colonization. This project also involved the design, supply, installation and management of a temporary irrigation system.

Department of Environment and Conservation 2006 – 2009
Bush regeneration along a five kilometre long, and 10 metre wide, disused gas pipeline corridor through Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop and Gully Forest vegetation in Lane Cove National Park, at North Ryde.

Hawkesbury City Council 2004 – 2009
Bush regeneration, weed control and reconstruction of Riverflat Forest along 2.5 kilometres of South Creek on either side of the Fitzroy Bridge, on Windsor Road at Windsor, 2006 until 2009

Bellbird Hill Reserve – Bush regeneration, 2004 – 2006

Landscape Solutions 2006 – 2008
Topsoiling, mulching, bush regeneration and reconstruction planting of 20,000 Turpentine Ironbark Forest and Freshwater Wetland plants, of a riparian area associated with Stage 2, Student Accommodation Building, Macquarie University, RFI Act 3 A Permit Vegetation Management Plan

Maintenance of reconstructed riparian vegetation and Illawarra subtropical rainforest, at Shell Cover Area 7C

GM Baden Pty Ltd 2006 – 2008
Bungaribee Creek, Arndell Park – Section of creek-line stabilisation, mulching and reconstruction of local native Sydney Coastal Riverflat Forest by planting local native tube-stock, and direct seeding areas with locally collected native grass seed

Senator Management Pty Ltd 2006 – 2008
Bush regeneration and reconstruction of Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, and Riverflat Forest, along a 300 metre long section of Smalls Creek on Sydney Water lands, RFI Act 3 A Permit Vegetation Management Plan

Kurt Vegners 2006 – 2008
Seed collection, supply, installation, and two years’ maintenance of 15,000 local native Cumberland Plain Woodland and Sydney Coastal Riverflat Forest plants, at a property development site at Denham Court, RFI Act 3 A Permit Vegetation Management Plan

Blacktown City Council 1997 – 2007
Seven Hills and Plumpton – Reconstruction planting and 12 months maintenance of 30,000 Cumberland Plain Woodland and Sydney Coastal Riverflat Forest plants, at two creek-line and wetland sites, 2006 – 2007

Blacktown Creek and Timbertop Reserve – Bushland regeneration and reconstruction of Cumberland Plain Woodland and Riverflat Forest. Included planting of 10,000 hiko tubes and 20,000 grass cells. These works were undertaken under various contracts between 2000 and 2005.

Aquilina Reserve, Doonside – Regeneration and reconstruction of Riverflat Forest in the Eastern Creek catchment. Included ecological burns to control weeds and stimulate regeneration, 1998 and 2000.

Mt Druitt High School (supervising 500 students on a planting day) – Cumberland Plain Woodland reconstruction planting of 500 local native plants. Included a maintenance program, 1997 – 1998.

Waverley Council 2006 – 2007
Bronte Beach Reserve – Bush regeneration works, bushland management plan composition and selective stabilisation, and revegetation of local native Sydney sandstone heath vegetation

Campbelltown City Council 2006 – 2007
Pembroke Park, Minto – Bush regeneration and reconstruction plantings along a section of creek-line that supports Cumberland Plain Woodland and Riverflat Forest

Strathfield Municipal Council 2006
Mason Park, Homebush – Bush regeneration weeding in remnant saltmarsh, mangroves, and replanted sections of terrestrial local native vegetation

Department of Environment and Conservation 2006 – 2008
Lane Cove National Park, North Ryde – Bush regeneration along a five kilometre long and 10 metre wide disused gas pipeline corridor through Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop and Gully Forest vegetation

Sydney Water 2001 – 2005
Smalls Creek between Samantha Riley Drive and Withers Rd, Kellyville – Bushland regeneration of Shale Sandstone Transition Forest and Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest, 2005

Smalls Creek between Wrights Rd and Vantage Crescent, Kellyville – Bushland regeneration of Shale Sandstone Transition Forest and Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest, 2002 – 2005

Cumberland Plain Woodland reconstruction and screening plantings of disused pasture at the Picton STP and surrounding pump stations with 20,000 tube stock grown at our nursery from seed collected in Cumberland Plain remnants in the Picton region, 2001 – 2002

RailCorp 1999 – 2009
3600m2 section of RailCorp land along the Light Rail Corridor near Brenan St and Railway Parade, Annandale – Weed control, mulching, planting and maintenance works, 2008

6500m2 section of the Rail Corridor at Flemington – Weed control, site mulching and re-vegetation using local native plant species, 2005 – 2007

22 kilometre section of Rail Corridor between Marrickville and Yagoona along the Metro South – West line – Weed control and bush regeneration, 2005 – 2006

Various sections of the Freight Line Rail Corridor at Sydenham – Weed control, site mulching and re-vegetation using local native plant species, 2004 – 2005

Olympic Rail Corridor Greening Project on the Western Line, Auburn to Emu Plains – Weed control and re-vegetation works over 20 sites including regeneration and reconstruction of Cumberland Plain Woodland including planting 20,000 tube stock, mulching, and 12 months of post-planting maintenance, 1999 – 2001

WSN Environmental Solutions (ex Waste Service NSW) 2003 – 2007
Collecting local native seeds, supplying, planting, irrigating and maintaining 12,500 Cumberland Plain Woodland plants over a 12 hectare rehabilitated landform area at the closed down Grange Rd, Marsden Park landfill site, 2005 – 2007

Target bush regeneration weeding of woody weeds in Sandstone Bushland adjoining WSN’s Belrose Tip site, 2006

Collecting local native seeds, supplying, planting, irrigating and maintaining 11,500 Cumberland Plain Woodland plants over a 10 hectare rehabilitated landform area at Area 4 at Eastern Creek Waste Management Centre, 2004 – 2005

Collecting local native seeds, supplying, planting, irrigating and maintaining 9,000 Castlereagh Woodland and forest plants over a 10 hectare rehabilitated landform area at the closed Castlereagh Tip site, 2003 – 2005

Supplying, planting, irrigating and maintaining 3,000 Cumberland Plain Woodland plants over three rehabilitated landform areas at the Eastern Creek Waste Management Centre, 2003 – 2005

Landcom 2005 – 2007
Stoney Range Reserve and surrounds at Blackbutt, Shellharbour – Bush regeneration of the endangered Illawarra Sub-tropical Rainforest and Illawarra Lowland Grassy Woodlands, and reconstruction plantings, using local native plants along bushland edges

Taronga Zoo (Asset Management) 2006 – 2009
Taronga Zoo – Weed and tree management works and maintenance of the perimeter fence and fox proof fence, 2006 – 2009

Centenary Viewing Platform Slope Stabilisation Project – Soil remediation and stabilisation works over a 4500m2 area, supply and installation of 15,000 local Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest and Woodland tube-stock, and maintenance of area, 2001 – 2002

John Holland Group 2005 – 2006
Rouse Hill Stage 3 – Various re-vegetation jobs to rehabilitate local native Cumberland Plain Woodland and Shale Sandstone Transition Forest surrounding trunk drainage, sewer, potable, and recycled water mains infrastructure

Hammond Care Group 2005 – 2007
Woy Woy RFI Act 3 A Permit project – Regeneration and reconstruction of remnant riparian vegetation

Vigor Master Pty Ltd 2005 – 2007
Beecroft RFI Act 3 A Permit project – Regeneration and reconstruction of remnant riparian vegetation and Blue Gum High Forest

ASK Developments 2004 – 2007
Castle Hill RFI Act 3 A Permit project – Regeneration and reconstruction of remnant riparian vegetation and the endangered Blue Gum High Forest ecological community

Thiess John Holland 2004 – 2006
Lane Cove Tunnel project – Various bush regeneration and re-vegetation jobs, flora impact assessments, and mitigation plans

James Clifford Constructions Pty Ltd 2003 – 2005
Creek-line adjoining the St Marys RSL club – Stabilisation and re-vegetation with local native plant species, and two year maintenance, to satisfy DIPNR’s Part 3A requirements

Wirrimbirra Sanctuary/BradCorp 2003 – 2004
Nangarin Estate, Picton – Bush regeneration and bushfire hazard reduction amongst remnant Cumberland Plain woodland. The treated zones at this site were on steep terrain, over an area of more than seven hectares, adjoining new residential areas.

Department of Defence 2003
Orchard Hills – Bush regeneration of Cumberland Plain Woodland for Department of Defence and Defence Maintenance Management, 2003

Lower Colo River Landcare Group 2003
Colo River – Bush regeneration and re-vegetation of riparian vegetation

Penrith Lakes Development Corporation Ltd (PLDC) 2001 – 2006
Cranebrook Creek – Primary and follow-up bush regeneration weeding of Riverflat Forest, and Cranebrook escarpment site – Primary and follow-up bush regeneration weeding of Cumberland Plain Woodland, 2001 and 2004

Ecohort has also undertaken four Vegetation Consultancy Investigations, seed collection contracts and three previous bush regeneration/weed control projects on the Nepean River and adjoining PLDC owned lands

Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd 2000 – 2003
Various sites in the Rouse Hill and Kellyville areas associated with the development of trunk drainage and sewer infrastructure for the Rouse Hill Infrastructure Development Project (Stage 2) – Bushland regeneration and reconstruction planting of four plant community types (Cumberland Plain Woodland, Sydney Coastal Riverflat Forest, Shale Sandstone Transition Forest, and Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest). The project involves the primary and follow-up weeding of three kilometres of riparian areas along Smalls and Caddies Creeks, seed collection of 40 local native plant species in the Smalls and Caddies Creek catchments for use in subsequent native plant community reconstruction plantings, and planting and maintenance of 70,000 local native forestry tubes, and 180,000 grass cells, over 27 sites that have been disturbed to accommodate sewer line development, creek line channelization, and culvert reconstruction, 1999 – 2000.

Rehabilitate parts of the Warragamba Spillway – Supply and plant 13,000 local native plants, 2003

Olympic Coordination Authority 1999 – 2001
Fairfield City Farm, before and after the Sydney 2000 Olympics Mountain Bike Event – Impact assessment planning and restoration of Dry Vine Rainforest and grassy ground-layered Cumberland Plain Woodland, 1999 and 2001

Fairfield City Council 1998 – 2001
Prout Park, Mount Pritchard, along Burns Creek at Fairfield West, and at the Cabramatta Bat Colony, Cabramatta – Bush regeneration, re-vegetation and maintenance

Greening Australia and DIPNR 1998 – 2005
Mamre Homestead on South Creek – Bush regeneration of Riverflat Forest