Today we are to help assist the Southern Yorke Peninsula Landcare Environmental Group to remove the Aleppo Pine ( Pinus Halepenis).
The Aleppo Pine is native to the Mediterranean area. It was planted in the Yorke Peninsula to be used as a wind break and it was also good firewood. The reason why the Southern Yorke Peninsula Landcare want to remove it is because it invaded a lot of bushland where native plants should be growing.
We were given saws to chop these plants down. You had to cut the trunk off at the bottom otherwise they would just start growing again. This was a very iring job. The leaves were very itchy and it really burnt the calories. I was exhausted by lunch time. After lunch we moved to another location where we were to pile all these dead trees in an area to be burnt later on. Again this was very hard work. The pile was massive. If you wee to light it you would have to stand at least 10m away from it because it would be so big and hot. The pile was made up of about 50-60 dead trees. After this we went back to Wambana. The time was 4:30pm and we ere very tired from the hard work.
All the people that work for this organisation are volunteers because the want to make a difference to help the environment of their home land. I felt very happy that we helped the Southern Yorke Peninsula Landcare organisation because I know that all the man power we we gave them in one day would've taken them days to do. I also felt happy because we made a difference to helping the environment that these volunteers love.
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