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While it is unrealistic to suppose that there will be any large-scale rehabilitation or regeneration of land to something approaching its natural condition in the foreseeable future, some small tracts of land in the lower reaches (of the
Brisbane River) deserve better care than they currently
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In 2008, a community-based catchment group, Wolston and
Centenary Catchments (WaCC), was formed. Since May 2014, WaCC has been operating from its base at the Pooh Corner Environment Centre (PCEC). This facility is located at the Wolston Road frontage to the Pooh Corner Bushland Reserve.
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Centenary Suburbs, including a rainforest fragment then still present on a small tributary below Mt Ommaney. That particular remnant vegetation fragment is adjacent to the site where the
201:, Australia. The suburbs originated as an "ambitious long-term suburban development proposal that included a number of neighbourhoods, or suburbs, each with sufficient services and facilities for its residents to have their day-to-day needs met without having to go elsewhere".
354:(WRBG) was the first community-based, volunteer-run bushland rehabilitation group to be established in the Centenary Suburbs. WRBG commenced operations in 1993 at its site at Pullen Reach, under the auspices of Brisbane City Council through a program that came to be known as
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established and continues to operate. That group's site encompasses the Mount
Ommaney walkway, which skirts the slope below the prominent hill that bears the same name, and is adjacent to Mount Ommaney Creek, near its confluence with the
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Habitat Brisbane bushland rehabilitation groups began to flourish, and by 2010 there were around a dozen such groups in the Centenary Suburbs and the surrounding south-western suburbs of Brisbane.
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in 1859. Originally the land was all known as
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receive. ... Initiatives for the rehabilitation and care of such areas have to come from local communities, not government bodies, to be effective.
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the land forty years previously in the 1860s and after whom Goggs Road is named. Only three of the farms sold at the original auction.
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Young, Peter (1990). Davie, Peter; Stock, Errol; Low Choy, Darryl (eds.).
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Historical overview, Centenary Suburbs Historical Society website
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Centenary and District Environment Action Inc, established 1996.
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Save Our Riverfront Bushland (SORB), established Sep 1991;
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1027:"Save Our Riverfront Bushland (SORB)"
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1192:"Wolston and Centenary Catchments"
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352:Westlake-Riverhills Bushcare Group
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876:"SALE OF WOLSTON ESTATE"
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670:Burrendah Road, Jindalee
325:Environmental Protection
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1116:Map of WRBG site at
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782:References
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431:Graceville
264:Riverhills
199:Queensland
149:Bellbowrie
66:4074, 4073
41:Population
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