Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue restoration

HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT… The historically significant Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is set to undergo restoration. Photo: Katelyn Morse.
HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT… The historically significant Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is set to undergo restoration. Photo: Katelyn Morse.

 

HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT… The historically significant Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is set to undergo restoration. Photo: Katelyn Morse.
HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT… The historically significant Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is set to undergo restoration. Photo: Katelyn Morse.

GREATER Shepparton City Council is working with several organisations and community representatives to restore the historically significant Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue along Melbourne Road.

The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is Australia’s longest eucalypt memorial avenue, spanning almost 20km and including over 2,400 native trees commemorating all those who served in WWII from Shepparton and surrounding areas.

To conserve and enhance the memorial avenue, council formed the Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue Advisory Committee in 2017 to investigate funding for a restoration, inform residents and the community of its significance and enhance and conserve the avenue.

Greater Shepparton City Council Director Sustainable Development, Geraldine Christou said council had growing concerns regarding the integrity of the Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue over recent years.

Geraldine said, “There have been a variety of issues affecting the memorial such as prolonged droughts in recent years, the distinct lack of awareness of the memorial avenue’s significance, inappropriate garden plantings in front of houses, removal of significant trees and ad hoc maintenance.”