I found this little fella (does anyone recognise it?) in the rip line we used to plant the eucalypts and acacias and currajongs in a 50 metre wide, 1.5km long wooded corridor that we hope will give the birds and small native mammals protection as they pass from remnant vegetation to remnant vegetation. This little lizard is our own DeGroot (the New Guard officer who slashed the ribbon when Jack Lang was to open the Harbour Bridge).
We are planting 3000 trees of various sizes to provide an understory as well as tall trees. We have our reasons: 1. Biodiversity is a charcteristic of a high soil carbon environment. This corridor will encourage biodiversity above and below the ground. 2. Trees in buffers and scattered across grassland are also good for carbon.Scientific papers have said soil carbon is higher in the vicinity of trees. 3. Soil carbon increases soil producivity.
These rocks dug up by the ripper as it prepared the planting line shows you what we are farming on in some paddocks.
Dan's friends Simon and Bethany came to help, watering thousands of seedlings.(More to come)
2 comments:
Its a bearded dragon. We get heaps of them at our place Near Braidwood NSW.
Thanks Dan, that photo of me is absolutly horrid. I was also expecting a bigger wrap then that. lol just kidding hope all is well and my little trees are growing nicely. Bethany
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