Franke Scrub: January 2009

Jan 29, 2009

Working bee and meeting

We had a large attendance at our working bee held on Wednesday 28th January.
Jed Brennan, Toowoomba Regional Council’s Director of Engineering, showed us maps and plans of the proposed road development and how it might impact on the Reserve and we came away feeling that our efforts to protect and care for this special patch were well worth continuing.

Where is Franke Scrub?

From Toowoomba, follow signs which take you north out of the city on the New England Highway towards Crows Nest. On reaching Highfields, (a little over 4 k from Blue Mountain Heights), turn left at the traffic lights into Cawdor Road. After approx. 1.6k, turn left into Cawdor Drive, then after approx. 2.2k, turn right into Franke Road. Continue off the end of the bitumen for several hundred metres. The dirt road is suitable for ordinary 2-wheel drive vehicles and there is room to park on the other side of the Scrub.

About Franke Road remnant scrub

A council road reserve protected by legislation which prevents clearing of road reserves. It is a length of deep creek bed with a diverse flora of old-growth dry rainforest trees and shrubs including the threatened Tarenna tree Tarenna cameronii and uncommon Orangebark tree Maytenus disperma.
Euphorbiaceae and Sapindaceae dominate the vegetation.
As a good remnant of the dry rainforest scrub which covered a lot of this area before closer settlement, Crows Nest Council received Natural Heritage Trust funding for its protection in 2006.

Jan 30, 2009

Maps and Site Plan

Jan 29, 2009

Working bee and meeting

Where is Franke Scrub?

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