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Just back from Albany W.A and a symposium on the Walking Together project led by Prof. Stephen Hopper & the Menang, Goreng Merningar Elders. The walking together project went for 4 years and was partially sponsored by Lotterywest to explore traditional noongar land management techniques & cultural collaboration. Priscilla, Jen & I spoke (despite my […]
Lets sum up what we know in this blog then look at where we need to go next. Trees in Trees, or TinTs for short, are known as accidental woody epiphytes in the academic world. Accidental epiphytes are plants that grow on trees – like orchids or strangler figs – but don’t feed off […]
A is for Academia, B is for Bigotry, C is for Country & D is for Democracy
The long awaited TinT paper is finally published & Im hoping you can access it by just clicking on the link below – I cant seem to get links to work on my blog – *sigh* -but will try again: BT23053Unusual, human-mediated prevalence of epiphytes in semi-arid New South Wales, Australia J. L. Silcock , J. […]
Ive been running some google searches on mistletoe lately to identify an interesting variety on a Myall tree not far away. Apparently, mistletoe doesn’t kill trees unless they are already doing poorly. Here are 3 excellent sources of info – Mistletoe Breaking the myths (nsw.gov.au) https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/the-misunderstood-magical-mistletoes-of-australia/11505510?utm_campaign=abc_everyday&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_everyday Home > Gardens / CANBR > Plant Information […]
I don’t know the Gomeroi name for water holding trees but am hoping Rhonda Ashby can find out for me as she is the language expert (gamilaraay/ yuwaalaraay/ yuwaalayaay). In the Menang language group of the south western Noongar people in W.A they are called Gnaama Boorna (Gnaama = a hole for water & Boorna […]
2 wonderful things have happened in the last few weeks – well 3 actually as we have 2 different papers accepted by 2 different journals! Firstly…. its finally managed to rain despite the BOM telling us repeatedly it won’t. Not all El nino years are droughts – the BOM likes to catastrophize – hottest! Coldest! […]
It’s not climate change but people change that’s turning our National Parks & Nature Reserves into giant bonfires. Colonisation removed the old fire-stick farmers & the conservation movement removed the new conventional farmers/ graziers. Last week lightning lit up the Narran lakes nature reserve and 22,000 hectares was burnt before rain eventually put the fire […]
As the smoke clears after the recent referendum, the losers lapse into blame shifting mode similar to what followed the public republic rejection a generation ago. Most people default to the ‘if it aint broke don’t fix it’ approach to constitutional change despite the statistics showing the system is broke for some of us. The […]
Ive been photographing & uploading tree pics to my archives since 2016 so Ive learnt a bit about PERSPECTIVE. The angle & the lighting are important too but in order to show the tree’s true size you need something beside it. Mostly I muster paddocks at home with a few kelpies who may be […]
Ive been reading about Awe hunting this week – I used to think it meant chasing wild electrical storms, hang gliding or bungee jumping off bridges. Apparently, there is a more sedate version where you look for the amazing in the everyday. Julia Baird wrote this about a recent Compass episode on ABC NEWS STORY […]