There has been considerable discussion on the forum about the flora at Greens Lake - in particular a certain tree.
I took it upon myself earlier in the year to make sure that no transgressions were occurring that would raise any risk to any flora at the Lake. Should there be any danger of exacerbating the well-being of trees, then I felt action should be taken by those who were responsible to correct that transgression.
I made contact with Goulburn Murray Water and obtained the following information concerning this area as described by Dept of Environment -
This map is drawn from the PDF document attached. The JPG also attached below is a "snap" taken from the attached PDF document to save scrolling through it to find the detail on flora -
The information was provided by Mr Brian Letcher within the following email in response to my email to GMW ...
From: Letcher, Brian [mailto:Brian.Letcher@gmwater.com.au] Sent: Friday, 29 August 2014 4:17 PM To: rockylizard@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Subject: Greens Lake flora
John,
Thank you for your interest in the flora surrounding Greens Lake.
Whilst Greens Lake is not a reserve and is owned by Goulburn Murray Water I have attached a protected matters search report for the Greens Lake area, which identifies all matters of national environmental significance.
I have also included a link to an Environment App below which you may be interested in.
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
NOTICE: If you are not an authorised recipient of this email, please contact Goulburn-Murray Water immediately by return email or by telephone on +61 3 5833 5500. In this case, you should not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on this email or any attachments, and should destroy all copies of them. This email and any attachments are confidential and may contain legally privileged information and/or copyright material of Goulburn-Murray Water or third parties. You should only transmit, distribute or commercialise the material if you are authorised to do so. This notice should not be removed.
Goulburn-Murray Water protects the privacy of its customers by providing customer information in accordance with the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000 For further information regarding Goulburn-Murray Water's privacy statement please refer to our website at http://www.g-mwater.com.au/
Hopefully readers have read all the way to this point. I really hope so.
I stress the reason for publishing this information on the forum is only to ensure that no further emotive argument is forthcoming regarding the danger, real or imagined, to any tree at Greens Lake.
None of the trees are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
Please can all members of this forum simply contribute in a positive way, sharing their experiences of the GN lifestyle and the aspects of that lifestyle that have drawn us all to this wonderful forum.
It does not matter what your background, age, gender, political or musical (or any other) persuasion, preferred camping style, caravan, motorhome, campervan, tent or even sleeping in the back of your car.
Every member has so much to offer and share - irrespective of how long they have been on this earth or the time they have been on this forum.
Again, I apologise for my badly worded post yesterday that created a false impression that some may be seen as more value than others here - it was not my intention and my naivete was too obvious.
Don't feel bad Rocky. There was nothing wrong with your previous post, NOTHING.
Thanks for all that detailed information though. Great read and informative. At the end of the day nothing threatened as well.
I did know all that from some questions I had asked from some professionals and got positive answers.
Keep safe my friend.
Ame25 said
08:43 PM Dec 20, 2014
I have been at Greens now for 3 weeks and have been so busy enjoying this beautiful place that I haven't even looked for a particular tree. Can't be very obvious as I haven't noticed it yet but there are an awful lot to choose from. Maybe I will spot it before I leave.
BTW...have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ... Those of us at Greens intend to. Cheers Colleen
Gerty Dancer said
09:21 PM Dec 20, 2014
Its not dangerous to a tree to nail something into it unless its a copper nail! Horticulturists screw or bolt right through a tree sometimes to hold a branch from falling, and the tree is fine!
Please don't put wire or nylon rope around a tree or branch though, it eventually ring-barks the tree as it grows and will kill it
Happy Christmas to all the Thong Trees, Bra Trees, Nicker Trees and Bottle Trees around Australia!!!!
PS And we loved the anthills in Qld and NT that are dressed in T shirts and hats etc, they look like fat people all along the road. the ants keep working, some t-shirts had been "built over".
jules47 said
09:32 PM Dec 20, 2014
Well written RL - and good comments from other posters - Gerty - we loved the anthills being dressed, some even have hard hats on, we even saw a Santa!!!!
frangipani said
09:50 PM Dec 20, 2014
Gday Rocky lizard, you can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can please half of the people some of the time,
You keep posting, love your photo's you have a great festive season, - Fran
Gday...
There has been considerable discussion on the forum about the flora at Greens Lake - in particular a certain tree.
I took it upon myself earlier in the year to make sure that no transgressions were occurring that would raise any risk to any flora at the Lake. Should there be any danger of exacerbating the well-being of trees, then I felt action should be taken by those who were responsible to correct that transgression.
I made contact with Goulburn Murray Water and obtained the following information concerning this area as described by Dept of Environment -
This map is drawn from the PDF document attached. The JPG also attached below is a "snap" taken from the attached PDF document to save scrolling through it to find the detail on flora -
The information was provided by Mr Brian Letcher within the following email in response to my email to GMW ...
_____________________________________________________________________________________
From: Letcher, Brian [mailto:Brian.Letcher@gmwater.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 29 August 2014 4:17 PM
To: rockylizard@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: Greens Lake flora
John,
Thank you for your interest in the flora surrounding Greens Lake.
Whilst Greens Lake is not a reserve and is owned by Goulburn Murray Water I have attached a protected matters search report for the Greens Lake area, which identifies all matters of national environmental significance.
I have also included a link to an Environment App below which you may be interested in.
Regards
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/myenvironment/id458267028?mt=8
Goulburn-Murray Water
BRIAN LETCHER
Customer Services MANAGER
Rochester - Campaspe Operations
RETAIL & OPERATIONS GROUP
41 High St
Rochester
Victoria 3561 Australia
www.g-mwater.com.au
Phone (03) 5484 7403
Fax (03) 5484 7450
Email Brian.Letcher@gmwater.com.au
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
NOTICE: If you are not an authorised recipient of this email, please contact Goulburn-Murray Water immediately by return email or by telephone on +61 3 5833 5500. In this case, you should not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on this email or any attachments, and should destroy all copies of them. This email and any attachments are confidential and may contain legally privileged information and/or copyright material of Goulburn-Murray Water or third parties. You should only transmit, distribute or commercialise the material if you are authorised to do so. This notice should not be removed.
Goulburn-Murray Water protects the privacy of its customers by providing customer information in accordance with the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000 For further information regarding Goulburn-Murray Water's privacy statement please refer to our website at http://www.g-mwater.com.au/
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hopefully readers have read all the way to this point. I really hope so.
I stress the reason for publishing this information on the forum is only to ensure that no further emotive argument is forthcoming regarding the danger, real or imagined, to any tree at Greens Lake.
None of the trees are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
Please can all members of this forum simply contribute in a positive way, sharing their experiences of the GN lifestyle and the aspects of that lifestyle that have drawn us all to this wonderful forum.
It does not matter what your background, age, gender, political or musical (or any other) persuasion, preferred camping style, caravan, motorhome, campervan, tent or even sleeping in the back of your car.
Every member has so much to offer and share - irrespective of how long they have been on this earth or the time they have been on this forum.
Again, I apologise for my badly worded post yesterday that created a false impression that some may be seen as more value than others here - it was not my intention and my naivete was too obvious.
Cheers - and happy travelling - John
Thanks for all that detailed information though. Great read and informative. At the end of the day nothing threatened as well.
I did know all that from some questions I had asked from some professionals and got positive answers.
Keep safe my friend.
BTW...have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ... Those of us at Greens intend to. Cheers Colleen
Its not dangerous to a tree to nail something into it unless its a copper nail! Horticulturists screw or bolt right through a tree sometimes to hold a branch from falling, and the tree is fine!
Please don't put wire or nylon rope around a tree or branch though, it eventually ring-barks the tree as it grows and will kill it
Happy Christmas to all the Thong Trees, Bra Trees, Nicker Trees and Bottle Trees around Australia!!!!
PS And we loved the anthills in Qld and NT that are dressed in T shirts and hats etc, they look like fat people all along the road. the ants keep working, some t-shirts had been "built over".
Gday Rocky lizard, you can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can please half of the people some of the time,
You keep posting, love your photo's you have a great festive season, - Fran
