The ACT has funded a number of new and continuing environmental and civil management initiatives in its 2010-11 budget. 

 

They include:

 

  • $6.2million over four years for management of Canberra's street trees, with a focus on scheduled tree maintenance works especially in streets, heritage trees and in high priority parks.

  • $1million over four years will support critically endangered woodlands in the ACT, particularly Box-Gum woodlands, through a range of measures such as revegetation, reintroduction of missing habit elements like dead wood and managing grazing pressure and research.

  • $3.3million over three years for the construction of the Canberra Centenary trail.

  • $2.1million for the design stage of Molonglo Riverside Park, adjacent to the planned Molonglo urban development.

  • $1.8million for management of invasive weeds, such as Serrated Tussock, Chilean Needlegrass, African Lovegrass, St John's Wort and blackberry in grasslands and woodlands with high conservation value. These locations include Namadgi National Park, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Murrumbidgee River Corridor and Jerrabomberra Creek.

  • $300,000 for a willow removal and revegetation project along the Molonglo River waterski area to improve sightlines and stabilise the riverbank.

  • 1.5million for an ACT-wide willow removal project on public and private land, including the clean-up of tree debris deposited by recent flash flooding.

  • $512,000  for the rabbit control program in nature reserves to target new areas and undertake follow-up work.

  • $100,000 project to install identification, interpretative and directional signage highlighting areas of heritage, environmental and local significance.