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A small strip of remnant vegetation along the Tingoora-Chelmsford Road … 11 rare trees have been identified alongside the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 4, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The discovery of 11 rare trees – which has delayed the re-alignment of a dangerous corner on the Tingoora Chelmsford Road – has South Burnett mayor Wayne Kratzmann seeing red.<\/p>\n

In his report to Wednesday’s Council meeting, Cr Damien Tessmann referred to the fact that “the local ecology” in the area of the roadworks needed further investigation. This had delayed the start of the project, which had been due to begin last week.<\/p>\n

“By ‘local ecology’ are we talking about plants again?” Mayor Kratzmann asked.<\/p>\n

“This Council, in my opinion, gets a lot of unwarranted criticism about us spending a certain amount of money.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s been covered in the press. I urge the press today to write the story about what it costs the Council regarding ecology on plants.<\/p>\n

“I would like to know what it cost us on the overtaking lanes at Wooroolin where we had to identify some plants.<\/p>\n

“Now, I live in a National Park. I’m keen for the preservation of our trees. But simply, in 2016, when the ratepayers’ dollar is hard enough to get in, it’s so hard to spend money with the cutbacks, (we can’t afford) to have additional costs because of ecology of plants.”<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said he had a feeling this subject could be coming up at the Council meeting after he drove along the road on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I shudder when I see little pink ties (which mark protected plants) on the side of the road,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I don’t know what this is going to cost us but whatever it’s going to cost us we can’t afford it. Council needs to take this up with other councils as well.<\/p>\n

“Whether those plants were there or not would not make any difference to our community, to our future, to the future of Tingoora or Wooroolin or the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

“And no one even knew they were there before we went in and did the work!”<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said it was a dangerous corner where people could be killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Council has had the desire to fix that and now that work has been delayed because we found local ecology on the side of the road,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Councils can’t do this any more and the State Government needs to be told that.<\/p>\n

“This is not about being opposite to the Greens. I support emission control etc etc.<\/p>\n

“This is just simply crazy and simply a waste of Council and ratepayers’ money that we cannot afford.”<\/p>\n

Cr Ros Heit said the closure of the road was\u00a0 also very inconvenient for local peanut farmers during their harvest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She said Council had been trying to work with the farmers, but because of this delay, they would now be travelling an extra 10km with every load of peanuts.<\/p>\n

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southburnett.com.au understands that Council initially located a single Acacia tingoorensis<\/em><\/a> along the route of the proposed road realignment but it has now identified 10\u00a0Callitris baileyi<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Atlas of Australia,\u00a0 A. tingoorensis<\/em> is a species of wattle native only to Queensland. It is classified as “significant” and “vulnerable” and is found only near Kingaroy and in the Ingham area of north-eastern Queensland.<\/p>\n

C. baileyi<\/em> is better known as Bailey’s Cypress Pine.\u00a0 It is found sporadically between the NSW border to Goomeri and west to the Bunya Mountains. A small population also exists in north-eastern NSW.\u00a0In NSW,\u00a0 it is classified as “threatened” and in Queensland as “near threatened”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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