Bushy Hill JCCA
The Bushland Plant Survey Project was conducted in 2010 by the Wildflower Society’s Bushland Plant Survey Project (WSWA) in collaboration with the then Head of Science and co-ordinator of the school environmental group, Roots’n’Shoots, and the Buildings and Grounds Co-ordinator for the College P&C, both of whom understood the importance of protecting the biodiversity of the area.
The aim of the project was to survey the remnant bushland at the College, in order to provide a species list and field herbarium to complement any existing floristic and vegetation information for the College grounds. The survey was conducted by WSWA volunteers, with the help of College students; and the field herbarium was assembled from the specimens collected during the survey and identified by volunteers and students.
The resulting information was to be used to enable identification of weeds for removal and to create a list of the correct local native species suitable for use in the rehabilitation of the grounds. It is expected that the list of species generated from this survey will be added to as a result of future survey work at the College.
In 2011 students in the Year 12 Biology class used the data gathered to choose the most suitable seeds to germinate and grow so as to revegetate the limestone cliff. They conducted a field trial on land that is now between the new building and the lower carpark.
The aim of the project was to survey the remnant bushland at the College, in order to provide a species list and field herbarium to complement any existing floristic and vegetation information for the College grounds. The survey was conducted by WSWA volunteers, with the help of College students; and the field herbarium was assembled from the specimens collected during the survey and identified by volunteers and students.
The resulting information was to be used to enable identification of weeds for removal and to create a list of the correct local native species suitable for use in the rehabilitation of the grounds. It is expected that the list of species generated from this survey will be added to as a result of future survey work at the College.
In 2011 students in the Year 12 Biology class used the data gathered to choose the most suitable seeds to germinate and grow so as to revegetate the limestone cliff. They conducted a field trial on land that is now between the new building and the lower carpark.
September 2010 - Bushy Hill: the original quadrat sites
September 2015
Bushy Hill Flora Survey Report and Field Herbarium
To load this document I had to break the Bushy Hill Flora report into four parts.
This file conatins the Introduction and some history of the Bushy Hill Site.
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Some research links
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