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Revegetation to restore foreshore bushland reserves
Bass Coast Shire Council has started preparation works to plant 10,000 indigenous plants on the Cowes West and Ventnor foreshores, in response to Crown Land encroachment.
This revegetation is part of Council’s Encroachment Program, which focuses on rehabilitating public land sites. In many of these cases, the original coastal vegetation was cleared many decades ago and has since been maintained as grassed areas and used, sometimes unknowingly, by adjacent properties as an extension of their yards.
Four sites at Cowes West and one at Ventnor are currently being prepared for planting, which includes spraying of environmental weeds such as kikuyu. Planting will be carried out during winter and spring, when conditions are best suited to plant establishment.