Culturally Significant Landscape Elements
Useful and ornamental fruit trees, which are smothered in spectacular blossom in spring and decorated with colourful fruits in autumn, add character to our landscape in much the same ways as the radiata pines on the Mornington Peninsula.
Several years ago Mornington Peninsula Shire Council made a push to rid the peninsula of the beautiful lines of ancient dark green pines criss-crossing the landscape.
Fortunately, after a loud community outcry, the intrinsic value of the pines was fully appreciated, and now those old windbreaks are actually protected as part of the landscape's heritage.
The Shire’s Road Side Management Strategy states: 'Many treelines, including those composed of non-indigenous trees, such as Monterey or Radiata Pines, are culturally significant elements of the Peninsula landscape.'
The same should be recognized of the valuable wild fruit trees of Australia.
Several years ago Mornington Peninsula Shire Council made a push to rid the peninsula of the beautiful lines of ancient dark green pines criss-crossing the landscape.
Fortunately, after a loud community outcry, the intrinsic value of the pines was fully appreciated, and now those old windbreaks are actually protected as part of the landscape's heritage.
The Shire’s Road Side Management Strategy states: 'Many treelines, including those composed of non-indigenous trees, such as Monterey or Radiata Pines, are culturally significant elements of the Peninsula landscape.'
The same should be recognized of the valuable wild fruit trees of Australia.