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“The perception that Indigenous Australians were primitive hunters and gatherers who lived in a nomadic ‘Stone Age’ culture resonates through most narratives found on Indigenous people in pre-colonial times. This narrative is better placed in the realm of myth; I contest claims that the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians was only forty years in pre-colonial […]
As the lockdown wears on its not all doom & gloom out here. Walgett has made great progress re vaccination rates & the cases you hear on the news are Dubbo people with Walgett addresses. Progress hasn’t been so good with my quest to have the state library of NSW preserve this website in perpetuity […]
Yaama to all visitors to this site – yaama being the Gomeroi word for hello. For those who’ve only just googled their way here in NAIDOC week, I hope you like the thousands of CMTs you can see. Culturally Modified Tree is the term used now for trees whose bark has been removed or trunks/branches […]
An accidental epiphyte is a plant that normally grows terrestrially (in the ground) but that occasionally grows to maturity in a tree crown, usually in terrestrial-like microsites such as the crotches of branches (www.sciencedirect.com) A tree crotch is that small pocket where the branches join the trunk or the base of multi trunked trees […]
The long anticipated visit of Qld ecologists Jen Silcock & Russell Fairfax took place on Easter Monday & they had a week recording TinTs and viewing other CMTs here. I hadn’t met Russell before but was surprised by how much their son Rowan & his vocabulary had grown in 7 months. The mosquitos were […]
Aboriginal tourism workshop – NATOC + DNCO + NSW LALC I attended a very interesting meeting at the Tamworth golf club last week. It was “An introduction to Aboriginal Tourism” and all the speakers were right on top of their game. The welcome to country was given by Daisy Cutmore the deputy chairperson of […]
I have just ordered & read “Sticks and Stones” published by the Border Rivers – Gwydir CMA, a follow up to ‘’Bush Tucker, Boomerangs & Bandages”. Even though we are outside the geographical area on their map, we share much of the same vegetation and are within the Kamilaroi/ Gomeroi nation boundaries. Both books […]
Im re reading a great Australian classic written in 1959 by Dame Mary Durack – Kings in grass castles. I thought the biography of her Grandfather & other pioneering relatives may give some insight into CMTs but Gomeroi lands are too far south and east to be relevant to the story. Around the time […]
So this scartree website is now in the hands of the modern gods – the tech people who run the world (or crazy domains at least). They will attempt to operate on the site to remove sufficient Inodes from its innards so we can stay hosted. There are often lots of flotsam & jetsam […]
Ive been getting a lot of technical emails from my web server about inodes & load speeds & VPS that I don’t understand but the general gist is I have way too many photos of trees on this website. Although Im still uploading photos with 800 pixels the size & quality of these pictures are […]