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In the Greening Australia nursery in Aranda, trays and trays of pots are being filled with potting mix and seeds of native trees. Volunteers gather every Wednesday to work together to grow plants that will help revegetate bushfire-ravaged properties throughout the southern tablelands. The nursery usually grows 120,000 plants per year but thanks to a grant from the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, that number will be boosted to 160,000. Operations lead for Greening Australia ACT and NSW Graham Fifield said threatened species such as the glossy black cockatoo,…