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The Pines Campground at Araps - What's happening! 21-Nov-2014 At 3:46:49 PM Old_Man

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The Wimmera is getting drier and hotter. It now makes no sense to chop down existing trees, if it ever did, because they're very hard to replace with anything else. If exotic pines spread at all last century, they certainly won't in present conditions - even mature pines are struggling to survive. The point is, how to revegetate? Conditions are now so dire that just putting in a few seedlings and pissing on them will give very slow & uncertain results. I'm trying to sound optimistic here: look at what's left of those on the track up to the Pharos. If there is an answer, it includes species selection, ground preparation, large numbers (of trees & volunteers), persistence, and maintenance. There used to be a saying, it never rains at Arapiles ...