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Looking south from Traveston Crossing Rd across a lower river terrace showing a green track or drainage line amidst the surrounding sprayed areas.

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Close up of pegs used to delineate the track or drainage line.

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Looking east from Traveston Crossing rd showing a track width on the fence line bordering the sprayed pasture. A pile of mulched timber in the foreground was once a group of farm shade trees.

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Looking east along Traveston Crossing rd.
Piles of mulched timber are dotted amongst the blanket herbicide spraying of the hill.

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Looking east along the fence line parallel with Traveston Crossing rd showing a track width on the fence line bordering the sprayed pasture.

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Looking south-east from Traveston Crossing rd. Unsprayed area in the foreground is around a small farm dam.

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Excerpt from Figure 4-3 from the Traveston Crossing EIS - showing that a site office and concrete plant are planned on the QWIPL owned property at the bend in Traveston Crossing Rd just to the east of Traveston Crossing Bridge.

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Looking from across the river to the QWI owned farm(far background house, shed and cattle yards) with Traveston Crossing road in the left of the photo below the house.

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Two excavators clearing native remnant vegetation in preparation for setting up the tree farming trial.

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Excavator clearing hoop and bunya pine trees near the cattle yards.

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Looking south from Traveston Crossing rd towards the proposed dam wall location at the far background. Remnant trees have been felled and heaped in piles, farm fences removed and this section of the farm is proposed for the site office and concrete plant.

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Heaped native remnant trees 15th Nov 2007
Shed in the far background hill.

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Excavator heaping native remnant farm trees.

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Partially cleared stony ridge to the south of the house 14th Nov 2007

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 Next day 15th Nov 2007 ridge completely cleared including stony section.

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Cleared ridge with large blue gums felled in the foreground

QWIPL Earthworks

After all the denials, arguments, mistruths, etc, a picture truly is worth 1,000 words.

If you didn’t catch the front page, here is a photo of the excavator QWIPL has brought on site for their “geotechnical investigations”.

he 255LCV is not a toy.

It weighs 25 metric tonnes. It has a reach of 10 metres and a dig depth of 6.6 metres. It can lift up to 8.6 metric tonnes in a single scoop (with the standard 2.4 metre wide bucket).

It is, as they say, clearly not there just to $&#*@ spiders