Tewantin
Tree removal in Tewantin
Tree removal, pruning and storm work in Tewantin, from the riverside streets to the blocks near the national park.
Tree work in Tewantin
Poinciana Avenue and the Waratah Reserve roost
Heritage Noosa holds a postcard of poinciana trees in Gooloi Street, the old name of Poinciana Avenue. The card dates from the 1950s, so the big old poincianas there are long-standing character trees. Tewantin's local plan code expects development to retain the mature poinciana and fig trees along Poinciana Avenue, and asks for more poincianas in new street planting there. So where tree work beside the avenue is part of a development approval, it leans toward careful crown work and protecting roots rather than removal.
Noosa Council lists the flying-fox roost in Waratah Reserve among the shire's high conflict roosts, with a management plan of its own. On a block that backs onto the reserve, trimming or removing trees has to stay within the state's low impact code of practice, and anything that disturbs the roost vegetation needs a Queensland Government permit first.
The timing can be unusual too. After a large colony of little red flying-foxes had roosted there for about six months, the council's contractors carried out tree trimming in Waratah Reserve at night, on 20 and 21 March 2023, to open a buffer between the colony and the houses. Work on the blocks next door may have to fit the colony's timing as well, rather than a normal daytime schedule.
Services in Tewantin
Avenue trees, river yards and tall gums
How it works
What happens after you get in touch
The council question is answered before the price, and nothing is booked until you have the quote in writing and have said yes to it.
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Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
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Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
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The council position is checked
Lot size, how close the tree is to the house and the mapping on the block decide whether an application comes first.
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Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Tewantin questions
Falling limbs, stringybarks and storm surge
Do the big gums around Tewantin drop branches?
They do. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service warns bike riders in Tewantin National Park that blackbutt, flooded gums and other trees often drop small branches. On a block that holds the same eucalypts, the job is often deadwooding, clearing dropped branches from the roof and gutters, and checking each crown for weak limbs.
Could a stringybark in the yard be protected?
It could be. Tewantin National Park, which protects forest and heath remnants between Noosa and Cooroy, is home to the endangered swamp stringybark, a multi-trunked tree with grey, fibrous bark and creamy white flowers. A tree like that on a nearby block is identified before any cutting, because a threatened species can bring state protected plant rules into the job.
Which parts of town can storm surge reach?
During Tropical Cyclone Alfred, Noosa Council listed Hilton Terrace, Hilton Esplanade, Lewis Street and Mill Street among the low-lying areas storm surge could inundate, and said those areas often go under in lower-level river floods as well. Trees standing in ground that wet lean or fall more readily in the gales that follow, so storm work there starts with the root plate and any leaning trunk.
