Our Experience With Restoration Projects
The National Trust’s Bushland Management Division has experience restoring a great variety of sites with respect to vegetation type, weeds encountered and causes of degradation. Our particlar expertise is use of fine techniques and strategies in areas of high resilience or biodiversity. These skills are essential in areas regenerating after fire and those listed as Endangered Ecological Communities or in areas containing threatened flora or fauna.
The National Trust carries out approximately 100 bushland contracts in bushland reserves and reconstructed areas each year, principally throughout the Sydney area, the Blue Mountains and Central Coast region. Our clients include government departments, local councils, State owned authorities and private land owners.
The National Trust has experience managing the restoration of the following vegetation communities:
- Hawkesbury Sandstone vegetation communities – many sites throughout Sydney and the lower Blue Mountains. Sites have included a variety of vegetation including coastal vegetation, heath lands, open forest areas through to the closed forest found on creek lines
- Blue Gum High Forest - a number of reserves in northern Sydney e.g. Ludovic Blackwood Sanctuary, Beecroft; McQuoin Park, Wahroonga; Loreto College, Normanhurst; Mount St Benedict College, Beecroft; plus other reserves in the local government areas of Ryde and Parramatta
- Spotted Gum Forest - Stella James House, Avalon; Crown of Newport Reserve
- Littoral Rainforest communities - sites in Pittwater & Sutherland
- Cumberland Plain Woodland – many sites including; Charles McKay Reserve, Mt Druitt; Noorumba Reserve, Rose Meadow; Alpha Park, Greystanes; Bossley Road Bushland, Bossley Park
- Shale Sandstone Transition Forest – Rouse Hill Development Area, Rouse Hill
- Sydney Coastal River Flat Forest – Menangle Park, Menangle Park; Rouse Hill Development Area, Rouse Hill
- Blue Mountains Swamp vegetation at Katoomba and Leura
- Cooks River / Castlereagh Ironbark Forest – remnants at Campsie, Yennora, Holroyd and M5
- Freshwater wetlands – Glenbrook Lagoon, Blue Mountains; constructed wetland at Girrahween Park, Earlwood
- Sydney Freshwater Wetlands – Botany Wetlands, Botany; Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
- Coastal sand-dunes – Palm Beach, Pittwater; Maroubra Dunes; Yarra Point, Yarra Bay
- Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub – Wassell Street Remnant; Chifley Remnant; Arthur Byrne Reserve; NSW Golf Club, Bonnie Doon Golf Club, the Bird Sanctuary at Centennial Park and Botany Wetlands
- Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest – Carrs Bush, Galston; Boronia Park Reserve, Boronia Park; Parramatta sites
- Estuarine communities –Dee Why Lagoon, Dee Why
- Sydney Coastal Estuary Swamp Forest Complex – Jamieson Park, Narrabeen; Dee Why Lagoon, Dee Why
- Coastal Saltmarsh in the Sydney Basin - Eve Street Wetland, Arncliffe; Saltmarsh along the Great North Walk, Hunters Hill; Half Moon Bay, Drummoyne.
