NPWS

The Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water and Greenfleet have this week completed the planting of another 100,000 native trees on the Blowering Dam Foreshores in Kosciuszko National Park.

The cooperative project began in 2006 and has seen 330,000 trees planted over 330 hectares of previously cleared agricultural land.

Fifty hectares of land near the Blowering Depot and Yachting Point were planted as well as replanting of areas where seedlings had died off due to drought conditions

NPWS Southern Ranges Regional Manager, Dave Darlington, said today the project has been funded in part by the DECCW and in part by Greenfleet under an agreement signed in 2006.

"The aims of the project are to rehabilitate cleared lands to help prevent weed infestations, provide habitat for native animals, add to the scenic qualities of the area and to store carbon to help offset emissions from vehicles and heavy industry.

"A substantial amount of funding has been committed to the project to spray weeds, erect fences, prepare the soil to plant seedlings and maintain the plants on an ongoing basis", Mr Darlington said.

Further planting sites are being prepared for revegetation over the next few years in an attempt to plant close to 1 million trees over nearly 1000 hectares.