About

The people, and the years

Some milestones of the group and other activities, from the first planting at Bangalow Pool.

Committee

1998
First project – bank planting at Bangalow Pool.
2000
First successful grant application – Olympic site.
2001
Beginning of many community plantings – Olympic site.
2002
Natural Heritage Grant to plant 3500 trees at Potter’s.
2005
Herrmann’s Stage 2, over 3000 trees planted along Byron Creek.
2007
Successful Envirofund grant application – over $36,000 for the Bangalow sports field planting.
2008
Community planting day – sports fields (Envirofund project).
2008
First Big Scrub Day information stand, Rocky Creek Dam.
2008
10th anniversary celebrated in December.
2009
Big Scrub Day held in Bangalow – hosted a walk through the Sport Field (Envirofund) project.
2009
Successfully completed the Envirofund project.
2010
First Indigenous regeneration team to help.
2011
No new works, time spent consolidating existing projects.
2012
Wetland construction completed.
2014
Allsouls Church planting Stage 1. 850 trees planted along Byron Creek.
2016
Allsouls Church planting Stage 2. 3500 plants to be planted to connect Stage 1 up to Bangalow Pool. Made possible by a 20 Million Trees grant, planting starts April 10th.
2017
Trees labelled along the Riverwalk from the Bangalow Parklands to the length of the sports fields.
2018
We are turning 20! Work continues on our major sites controlling weeds and increasing diversity.
2019
Little Maori Creek planting continued onto the western bank, made possible by Bangalow Koalas group. 2500 trees planted in this area.