Get Involved
with like-minded people who are committed to improving the environment through rainforest revegetation
With ongoing plant production at the Lake Eacham nursery and various projects always underway, there are numerous opportunities to volunteer with TREAT and meet interesting and like-minded people from your local community.
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Nursery – Fri mornings, McLeish Road Nursery, Lake Eacham
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Community Tree Plantings – Wet season, Sat mornings
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Display Centre – Mon, Wed and Fri, McLeish Road, Lake Eacham
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School programmes – various
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Yungaburra Markets – 4th Sat each month, Yungaburra
The TREAT Environmental Benefit Fund (EBF) is an approved charitable fund. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
The fund provides for various activities directly related to revegetation projects such as site maintenance, purchase of frost guards and irrigation, fencing and stock watering points.
Members can receive 10 free trees each year, after their first year of membership. They can also apply for up to 300 trees for private projects, after one year’s membership.
Suitable trees for the habitat will be chosen by nursery staff and the applicant needs to demonstrate that site preparation and maintenance have been considered. The applicant should attend a Planting Workshop prior to planting.
The TREAT auger can also be borrowed for these projects.
Submit an Expression of Interest for future revegetation on your property
To help in planning ahead for future priority revegetation areas, TREAT is building on its experience of the past 40 years by seeking expressions of interest from landholders on the Evelyn and Atherton Tablelands who are interested in revegetation on their properties.
The purpose of this is to build a data base of possible planting projects for the TREAT Committee to prioritise for future funding applications.
Invitation to apply for a
Crawford Rainforest Restoration Grant
Following a substantial bequest from the late Don Crawford, South Endeavour Trust has established a grant program, the Crawford Rainforest Restoration Grants. This program will commit a total of up to $100,000 per annum to supporting rainforest restoration projects on the Atherton Tablelands. With regard to these grants, we will consider any proposal brought to us that benefits rainforest restoration. This could include part or whole funding of planting projects. We will also be considering fencing projects that would protect significant rainforest plantings.
What's on, when & where ?
SEED PROPAGATION & TREE ID
WORKSHOP
@ TREAT nursery 9 am
Bookings essential
PLANTING WORKSHOP*
@ Freeman's Forest NR
Cutler Road, Lake Eacham
Bookings essential
* A requirement for those requesting more than 10 trees for the first time.
Call Barbara Lanskey on 4091 4468 or contact the TREAT nursery on 4095 3406 to book a place.
Tree identification & seed propagation workshop
This workshop is held in two sessions with a tea/coffee break in between, and is scheduled to finish at 12.30pm. Dinah Hansman presents the tree ID session and brings along samples of various tree branches to look at leaf features. She talks about leaf arrangement, feel, smell etc. and explains features such as domatia, glands, oil dots etc. which participants can see by using TREAT's hand lenses. Notes with diagrams are handed out. Peter Snodgrass presents the seed propagation session. At this time of year he has an assortment of seeds collected, and he shows the best ways to sow, germinate and grow the different seed types. Peter also has notes handed out.
Planting workshop
This workshop is held at Freemans Forest Nature Refuge where hole digging and planting can be demonstrated. An information session is held first, to talk about what is involved in site preparation, planting and maintenance of a planting site, and Mark and Angela McCaffrey together with Peter Snodgrass share their extensive knowledge and experience of these activities. Notes are handed out. There is a tea/coffee break after the information session, then at a designated area, augers are used to dig holes and trees are planted, to give participants hands-on experience. The workshop usually finishes about midday. Freemans Forest NR is on Cutler Road off Lake Barrine Road.