With little fanfare or pomp Salient editor Jackson James Wood and News Editor Michael Oliver today planted a Kowhai tree on Victoria’s Kelburn Campus.
The idea to plant a tree as a way of, in-part, eschewing Salient‘s massive carbon footprint and enhancing the already beautiful grounds of Victoria University, was Advertising and Sponsorship Manager Jon McQueen’s.
Wood was enthusiastic about entrenching some Salient vegetation into the campus that nurtured him.
“Hopefully Vic will nurture this tree like it nurtures so many great minds,” Wood said as he let out his famous belly laugh.
The native Kowhai—approximately 2.5 Salients worth of wood pulp—sits in pride of place, 20 metres up Hunter Drive (right by the maroon and white cars on gate one in this link) and is expected to bloom over the summer, attracting Tui and other nectar-drinking native birds for hungry first years to catch.
“I love that I did my part for nature by turning up and putting a tree in a hole,” said Oliver. “l’ll never have to recycle again.”
A plaque will be put under the tree sometime over the summer break.