Working Bee | Golden Valley Tree Park

Join the Forestry Australia WA Branch for a practical working bee at Golden Valley Tree Park, helping with wilding and wattle control around the Canary Island pine plots. The aim is to complete useful, manageable work and wrap up by lunchtime.

Date: Saturday 23 May 2026 | Time: 8.30 am to lunchtime
Location: 164 Old Padbury Rd, Balingup WA 6253

RSVP / questions:
events@forestry.org.au

What we’ll be doing

  • Cutting and treating wildings
  • Wattle control
  • Tidying regrowth around the target area
  • Working from the ground – no pole saws needed

Please bring

  • Pruning loppers
  • Electric chainsaw, if you have one
  • Gloves, sturdy boots and eye protection
  • Water bottle and weather-appropriate clothing

Past WA Events

Prospects for Active Management in Australian Native Forests
Date: Wednesday 4 February | Time: 6:30 pm
To read the report click HERE (Report coming soon!)

Innovation in Mechanical Plantation Establishment of Blue Gum
Date: Thursday 8 May | Time: 9.00am – 2.30pm

Social Gathering in Bunbury
Date: Thursday 17 April 2025 | Location: Froth Craft Bunbrewery, 12 Victoria St, Bunbury

Field Trip: Native Forest Enhancement – Ecological Thinning
Date: Thursday 26 September 2024 | Location: West of Manjimup

Field Trip: Plantation Forestry – The journey forward
Date: Monday 22 July 2024 | Location: Chowerup

Field Trip: Eucalypt growing, product marketing and utilization
Date: Saturday 11 May 2024 | Location: Brunswick

Social Gathering
Date: Friday 2 February 2024 | Location: Bunbury

Foresters Wood activity day
Date: Saturday 7 October 2023 | Location: Foresters Wood, Glenoran

Field Trip: Engineered Timber Structures and Pre-fabricated Timber Construction
Date: Friday 1 September 2023

Online Event: Prescribed Burning – Practical Challenges at Landscape Scale
Date: Wednesday 28 June 2023 | Time: 9:00am
Speaker: Ed Hatherley, Blackwood District Fire Co-ordinator, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Parks and Wildlife Service

Online Event: Biomass Recovery from Plantation Thinning Operations in Ireland
Date: Monday 22 May 2023

Online Event: Post fire survivorship and recolonisation of quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) in southwest Australian forests
Date: Tuesday 16 May 2023

Field Trip: Forest Pest Management Research Consortium & Industry Plantation Management Group
Date: Friday 28 April 2023

Book Launch: Shades of Green
Finding a middle path trough the forest by the late Dr Chrissy Sharp
Date: Friday 18 November 2022

Online Event: An Introduction to Soft Edge Mosaics
A novel approach to large scale prescribed burning for biodiversity management and community protection
Date: Friday 1 July 2022

Field Trip: Thinning for Ecosystem Health
Date: Sunday 19 June 2022

Foresters Wood Working Bee
Date: Saturday 21 May 2022

Dinner & Presentation
Collaboration to Transform Forest Health and Bushfire Mitigation
Date: Tuesday 22 March 2022

Online Event: Supply Chains for Hardwood Pulpwood
A Tasmanian Perspective – learning from the transition from weight based to cubic metre based supply chains for hardwood pulpwood
Date: Tuesday 14 December 2021

Field Trip: Manjimup
Private Plantation Growing – Softwood Resources – Small scale Sawmilling Field Day
Date: Saturday 11 September 2021