[caption id="attachment_8094" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Saltwater paperbark (Melaleuca halmaturorum)[/caption] This photo of a magnificent, ancient saltwater paperbark was taken in the West Avenue Range Watercourse in September 2009 by NGT's Mark Bachmann. Any guesses for how old it might be? You can see previous photos of the week here....
In Part 3 of this story, we discovered how the currently accepted spelling of Lake Monibeong came into being in the 1940s. In this fourth and final piece of the tale, we're going to go right back to the beginning again, to see whether any clues...
Last Saturday, I spent a great day at the Birdlife Australia Congress which was held in Portland for the first time since 1957! There was a fantastic local flavour in the middle part of the day, with sequential talks by: Bob Green - looking at the bird...
[caption id="attachment_7994" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Yellow-footed Antechinus near Rennick, Victoria - image by Mark Bachmann(click to enlarge or see larger version below)[/caption] This image of a Yellow-footed Antechinus (Antechinus flavipes) was taken by NGT's Mark Bachmann, near Rennick in Victoria. The Yellow-footed Antechinus is a partly arboreal (tree-climbing)...
In the next chapter of this story, we go forward a few years to the mid-1940s. By this time, it seems that more people were making the journey to what (as we discovered in Part 2) had become known as Lake Bung Bung, a period that also corresponds...
We pick up this story again by revisiting a series of newspaper articles that appeared in the Portland Guardian in the 1930s...
When it comes to the names of places, never assume anything: that is what some recent digging has taught me! While Long Swamp is a pretty straightforward and descriptive name that leaves no room for confusion, the same cannot be said for one of the spectacular...
On Thursday evening, I had the great pleasure of being invited along to the 2014 Victorian Coastal Awards for Excellence, which were held at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. It was really heartening to be gathered with so many people active in coastal conservation...
The latest edition of From the Ground Up is now out, and the community nursery project is featured in a great little story on page 11. Just in case you missed it, you can check out the article below - which can also be enlarged by...
[caption id="attachment_7419" align="aligncenter" width="511"] Have you been hearing them lately too?Spring is the time of year for frogs to be out and about in our wetlands![/caption] Yes, it is that time of year again...
