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extensive tree planting, clearing and replanting has taken place to achieve the current landscaping pattern.

       The existing vegetation in the eastern precinct was surveyed in March 2008 and mapped on a recent aerial image of the site. A large number of native and exotic species were identified. A number of these species are indigenous to the area and could have existed on the site as part of the grassy woodland on the lower slopes of Mt Ainslie grading into the grasslands of the Limestone Plains. These are shown in the following table and at Figure 3.

Tree Species                Native or Exotic   Indigenous to Site
Eucalyptus bicostata        Native             No
Eucalyptus blakelyi         Native             Yes
Eucalyptus bridgesiana      Native             Yes
Eucalyptus cinerea          Native             Possible
Eucalyptus elata            Native             No
Eucalyptus leucoxylon       Native             No
Eucalyptus maidenii         Native             No
Eucalyptus mannifera        Native             Possible
Eucalyptus rossii           Native             Possible
Eucalyptus melliodora       Native             Yes
Eucalyptus nicholli         Native             No
Eucalyptus pauciflora       Native             Yes
Eucalyptus polyanthemos     Native             Yes
Eucalyptus rubida           Native             Possible
Eucalyptus viminalis        Native             No
Planatus orientalis         Exotic             No
Populus deltoides           Exotic             No
Quercus lustanica           Exotic             No
Quercus robur               Exotic             No

       The species identified as indigenous to the site are those which characterise the present woodland vegetation abutting the AWM site on the north side of Treloar Crescent. The species possibly indigenous to the site are those which are marginal to the woodland community (either occurring in the forest form on the mid and upper slopes of Mt Ainslie, or downhill of the woodlands on the margins of the grassland plain).

       Figure 4 shows the present site vegetation overlain on the 1952 aerial photo. This shows that, of the indigenous species currently on site, only some individuals of Eucalyptus melliodora, Eucalyptus bridgesiana and Eucalyptus polyanthemos are currently growing in locations where remnant woodland existed at the time of the commencement of site landscaping in the area.

       Examination of these locations on site showed that only two individuals of Eucalyptus melliodora south-east of the C.E.W. Bean Building and a small group of Eucalyptus bridgesiana at the intersection of Treloar Crescent and Fairburn Avenue were mature enough to have been present, albeit as saplings only, in the original woodland group or to have grown in situ from seeds from this group. See Figure 5. All other trees, either because of their comparatively young age or because they are species that do not naturally occur in the area, are considered to be planted trees.

       Figure 3. The existing vegetation of the eastern precinct, March 2008

       Figure 4. The present site vegetation overlain on the 1952 aerial photo.

       Figure 5. Trees which may have links to the original woodland on site.

       These trees (the two Eucalyptus melliodora trees and the small group of Eucalyptus bridgesiana)