Wadalba
Tree removal in Wadalba
Removal, pruning and stump grinding for Wadalba homes, including the blocks beside the northerly connection of the Wadalba Wildlife Corridor.
Tree work in Wadalba
Gliders in the hollows, wattles in the understorey
In 2021 council ecologists and Wadalba's environmental volunteers radio-tracked squirrel gliders in the Wadalba Wildlife Corridor. A mature female and her daughter nested together in a favourite nest box or tree hollow and used a 900 m stretch of the corridor. Squirrel gliders are a threatened species that den in hollows, so on a block near the corridor a hollow-bearing tree is checked for gliders before its removal is even quoted.
The volunteers also identified important glider food plants, such as the acacia the gliders are regularly found foraging in. On blocks that adjoin the corridor, wattles are thinned with care and kept where possible, and it is the weeds that come out rather than the native understorey.
Services in Wadalba
Hollows, wattles and the council boundary
Tree removal
Removal near a known den tree timed with care, since there are squirrel gliders in the Wadalba Wildlife Corridor.
Tree pruning
Dead wood and crossing limbs taken out of garden trees, with the cuts on natives kept small.
Stump grinding
Stumps ground below the surface so turf or garden beds can go back over the spot.
How it works
From the first message to a written quote
The council question is settled before any price, and nothing is booked until you have said yes to a quote in writing.
- 1
Tell us what the tree is doing
Where it stands, what it is close to and what you would like done about it.
- 2
A contractor comes to see it
A tree contractor who covers your suburb looks at the tree, the access and what is underneath it.
- 3
The council question is answered
Height, trunk size, distance from the house and the species decide whether a permit or an exemption applies.
- 4
You get it in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date on one page, and nothing is booked until you have said yes.
Wadalba questions
Corridor land, a sea eagle nest and trees by the house
Is the bushland behind the fence council land?
The northern link was planned that way. In June 2016 council gave in principle support to rezone vacant land in Wadalba, with a large portion to be transferred into council ownership to form the northerly connection of the Wadalba Wildlife Corridor. Its trees are council's to manage, so a private job on that boundary keeps every cut, drop and drag on the owner's side.
Can a big gum with a nest in it come down?
Not before it is checked. In February 2015 Wadalba residents campaigned to save the nest of two rare sea eagles on land slated for housing, and council said the decision was up to the developer. Big old eucalypts in what remains of the bush can hold a nest like that, so a large tree is checked for an active nest before removal, and work near a known nest tree is planned around the breeding season.
Can a tree right beside the house be removed?
It can be. Council's DCP exempts removing or pruning a tree within 3 metres of an existing approved structure, measured 1.4 metres above ground, provided evidence from a trade or consulting arborist is kept for 6 months. The exemption is not available for a habitat tree for threatened fauna, which near the corridor can mean a glider den.
