VicRoads Western Highway tree cull: authority 'severely underestimated' environmental effect

By Melissa Cunningham, the Courier
Updated November 17 2015 - 11:42am, first published 8:41am
Isabel Mackenzie, 91, chained herself to a tree to protest the loss of vegetation from the Western Highway duplication. Picture: JEREMY BANNISTER
Isabel Mackenzie, 91, chained herself to a tree to protest the loss of vegetation from the Western Highway duplication. Picture: JEREMY BANNISTER

AN INVESTIGATION into VicRoads culling about 900 trees along the Western Highway has confirmed the authority’s methods were inaccurate. 

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