ringbarking & non indigenous

Antigar scar close up

budda ( Budtha ) poisoning Pocket

bullet wounds TB

wire scar Gingie rd

the dog chain ?

whitefella scar on pine in Ration

I dont know why this coolamon tree was cut?

ringbarking in the Moonal

poison fail MR

more recent poisoning - Tordon?

failed poisoning stripes

poisoning - Nardoo

poisoning fail stripes

steel axe cut on scar TB

surveyors scar on Gingie Rd

the bin HP

tree poisoning MR

ringbarking fail I think W

chinese ringbarking scars 1880s

steel axe cuts indicate failed poisoning attempts

surveyors scar on Gingie road

poisoning fail

steel axe cuts Mooroo - failed poisoning

who cut this with a steel axe & planted gargaloo?

shallow poisoned strips AG

funny face by steel axe

chinese ringbark Stud

steel axe cut resource tree

bullet wounds again TB

steel axe cuts - possum hunting?

Antigar scar 4381

Tordon cuts? TB (5)

Supplejack scar tree used by pig hunteres for firewood

old hinge near gallows

poisoning fail?

old rifle range TB

the no 3 tree

old chinese ringbarking

surveyors tree Spillbury

surveyors tree arrow

steel axe cuts unknown

scrubcutting - rosewood regrowth

scrubcutting - Supplejack regrowth

new surveyors tree SP

steel axe stripes the result of failed poisoning

A - Whitefella canoe ?

explorer/surveyor scar P

old scars & new TB

scarring from ringbarking in the 1880s

poisoned scartree

surveyors scar in Keero

belah ringbarking - unknown reason

ringbarking in Keero

steel axe cut ? Newtons

steel axe scar not cultural

ringbark regrowth

ringbark recovery

steel axe cut in the Moonal

unknown axtrax

steel axe cuts on old scar

steel axe cut chips out of scar sides - why?

surveyors tree Spillbury

Chinese ringbarking P

Axtrax - steel - not cultural

this shallow scar was caused by that wire

Bullet holes ? Newtons

teardrop scar caused by ringbark fail

ringbark scar not cultural WB

poisoning in warrambool

old scar new steel axcuts

failed poisoning

dozer blade scar Preist

steel axe poisoning & scar cut

modern art ...branch tear or canker scar

ringbarking or collar scar?

chinese ringbarking 1880s

high double galah scars

high branch tear I think K

high coolie or branch tear

steel axe resource scar

old Tordon poisoning Bimber

high canker scars I think

old wood borer scars prob.

old branch tear scar i think R

steel axe cut shelter scar HP

old bucket abrasion scar HP

self pruning abcission layer? P

favourites - target cankers

target canker close K

lightning strike radius damage old scartree

ringbark or poison fail - not cultural

high branch tear scar?

ringbark/ poison fail WB

ringbarking fail regrowth

axtrax - ringbarking

rosewood scrubcut MW

rosewood old scrubcut branch stubs MW

Allan finds old rosewood stumps from previous scrub cutting

strange steel axe scar

high branch tear I think W

chainsaw cut scar P

Rosewood cut for stock fodder

why is there Belah ringbarking in Keero ?

wood canker scar natural

necklace scar - poisoning fail

No. 3 tree - 150+ yrs old

chinese ringbarking I think

cankerous coolabah limb

steel axe cut scar TB

roadworks scar non Indig.

Belah ringbarking fail K

RT ringbarking fail ?

RT canker or some disease

RT ringbarking 1891-1901

BR Travelling Stock Route

ringbarking post 1880s

BR crazy scarring with coolabah reshoots

FW high galah scarring?

FW disease pockmarks

steel axe resource tree G

steel axe resource cuts?

canker not axcuts G

CS chinese ringbarking recovery?

CS timber cutting or possum hunting?

CS termite trails

CS natural branch tear

CS axcuts - ringbark fail

wire scarring Goorie

Tungra - possum hunt

NB disease or fire ?

NB kissing cousins natural

tiny steel axcut coolamon

pinched bark - ringbarking? G

ringbark scarred doubles

telegraph line tree G

GY ringbarking I think

GY possum hunting steel axe

self pruning - cladoptosis

failed ringbarking common

failed ringbarking most likely

ringbarking + coolamon

high galah scar I think ?

steel axtrax across old scar - why?

axe scar or healed self pruning?

tordon poisoning fail WG

surveyors blaze Spillbury

canker scars natural WG

layered scar -ringbark fail

A crazy canker scars

A scars & ringbarking

A ringbarking maybe ?

A ringbarking scar

A irregular ringbark scar

A ringbarking grinner

G canker or grub search ?

G surveyors scar

G ringbarking triple

G ringbark scarring

G ringbarking pinch scar

G termite tracks

G old ringbarked coolabah

G canker disease ?

G strange ringbarking ???

BR surveyors scar modern

BR chainsaw burl theft

surveyors scar T.W track Wlg

RT natural canker scarring

disease or indig. scarring ?

natural branch tear scar TB

G triangular galah scar

G high galah scar

BH V.old ringbarking

BH V.V old ringbarking

BH V.old ringbark coolie

101 uses for coolamons ?

G more ringbarking

G unknown - branch tear ?

G steel axe resource hole

G canker scarred coolabah

G canker scars close up

branch tear coolie MW

dunno whats going on here ?

G burns + steel axe cuts

G branch tear coolamon?

Dunno whats going on here either?

G lightning strike scar

A Chinese ringbarking

RT resource extraction steel axe

non Indig. AW - surveyors?

possum hunting steel axe

GGS wood borers - natural

M wire scarring

I will survive - bimblebox regrowth

FW ringbarked dead coolamon

T steel axe possum hunting

T canker scars

unknown not cultural scarring

canker type scarred box with Ubend branch

Ubend branch seeking light - natural

canker disease holes

Currant bush growing thru Rosewood

split pine .. natural or not?

natural spiral scars caused by vines

RT ringbarking scars

old ringbarking scar

canker scarring

ringbarking aka girdling in the US

unusual deep ringbarking scar

RT scarred by bulldozer blade slippage

RT vine scars

steel axe possum hunt

This T piece growth caused by scrub cutting

surveyors scar on Spillbury boundary revisit

1880s ringbarking ?

more recent surveyor's scar at Menindee

natural coolabah arch on Menindee lake

steel axe cut - possum hunt?

trunk distortion caused by canker disease

steel axe cut - hunting possum ?

axtrax - cultural or ringbarking ?

Black box reshoot - common & normal

bimblebox reshoot - common & normal

high branch fall scarring

trunk grooves caused by vines not people

Did this pine branch fall in here or was it put there?

This is a branch drop scar not a coolamon

I think this scar is a ringbark fail

dont think this is cultural as its too shallow

1880s ringbark fail scar I think?

ringbark fail scar (1880s) Not a cultural coolamon

same with this teardrop shaped scar I think

1 epicormic shoot from this fire scar has been cut off with a chainsaw

I think this is caused by lightning ?

I think this scar is caused by a branch fall

multiscarring probably canker disease WG

I think this scar was caused by a big branch falling out

dunno what happened here? old bimble box battler

wind smashed pine tree

spiral bark/ cambium layers - lightning scar?

Did the branch fall here or was it a ridge pole for bark shelter?

the box tree has grown around the fallen branch - psydrax camp

Im calling this a failed ringbarking attempt

same, note the mid section axtrax -should be at top & bottom if cultural

skeletal leaf of prickly pear - introduced in 1788

This smile is a tricky bugga - the pointy ends suggest its not cultural?

I think this scarring is caused by wood borers

unknown column cactus - escaped from early settler gardens

I think these twin coolamons were caused by ringbarking

another strange bark scar - probably canker

ringbarking

this is natural scar left by a divide trunk splitting open

this coolamon type scar been caused by wire I think

the tree was possibly used as a fence post - located beside a fence

this is a possum hunt with a steel axe - resource extraction tree

canker scars

wire scarring Boree

the wire has 'rung' this tree used as a fence post - old yards Boree

This scarring is caused by wood borers

and this twister scar is probably caused by a branch tearing off

old style coolabah ringbarking - pre 1880s?

this is a very big twisted scar caused by a branch being torn off

old axe cut or torn branch scar?

I dont think this is a cultural scar - too shallow & misshapen

fungus face

probably canker

kero tin on the Ginghet

the coolamons on this boxtree were caused by ringbarking years ago

I think this 1 was too. Ringbarking often failed on older trees

this one succeeded. Regrowth was a big problem in nth west NSW

wood borer tracks on a dead ironwood

wood borers on a coolabah

weird as they are these scars are caused by ringbarking 1880s/90s

burnt bark sheet from a modern fire - not cultural

multiscarring unknown - natural I think TB

this coolabah has a trunk/ branch twist - probably natural

1880s ringbarking - this is another rung Ringtree - sad but true

this nearby memorial for the death of mother & baby is also rung

this is caused by canker - not cultural

cactus in tree - not cultural - duh!

looks like ringbarking but why are the 2 steel axe rings so far apart?

and whats with this deep centre chop out? making crotches?

why is there a steel pipe thru this branch?

who dunnit? And why they dunnit?

normal 1880s type ringbarking - recovering

This appears to be a naturally occurring scar with whiteant trails

I think this scar was caused by wood borers

phantom of the opera? Cankered & not ...

trees 'consume' wire or inorganic material as they grow.

an arborist told me these are 'canker' scars - never seen them this deep?

also strange this tree should be in the middle of the new Barwon camp?

1880s ringbarking scar that has been revisited & burnt? Confusing

leopardwood slab scar

have come across this 1 before but couldnt resist

surveyor's tree Billybingbone rd

with govt. arrow above the numbers

non eucalypt doubles probably natural

surveyors scar Billybingbone rd

I think these little scars are natural

possibly canker disease? No visible axe marks ..

surveyors scar along Cumberdoon way

this pointy old growth protrusion was caused by Tordon poisoning

I think this is caused by canker not stone axes

poison tin - either this tree has grown or someone was a V good climber

faded surveyor's blaze

target practice - tin can on pine stump

cypress pine surveyor's blaze TCS

Tennis court for the 12 Apostles & families - abandoned after WW2

reference tree marking the SthWestern boundary of Brewon station

I think this reinforced drum is pretty old at Tennis Court Swamp

the 12 apostles last played tennis here in about 1950

fig & cactus epipytes growing on an old shed at Beaudesert Qld

tree face on a eucalypt in a garden in Orange NSW

ringbarking scar on a scar red tree

strange scar with chainsaw cut. Not sure if this caused the scar?

I think these doubles were caused by a failed ringbarking attempt over a century ago

these scars are caused by tordon poisoning - targeting coolabah

this old surveyors blaze was stamped on an existing scar

across the boundary fence is another blaze with the numbers 4 3 8 1

this was a possum tree - here is the scar where they set a fire to smoke it out

this shallow scarring is caused by galahs eating the bark

I think this scarring was caused by Tordon poisoning

this is a rubbing scar caused by branch on trunk abrasion

Tordon stripes I think - failed poisoning I think

If cultural they would have used the fallen trunk for firewood I think?

Tordon poisoning scar

very faded surveyors scar I think Wee Wally

very faint number 8?

this is a very old surveyor' blaze - hardly legible now

I think its an 'H' with a '4' underneath? Maybe an '8' or '9'?

There is no arrow either. Most Surveyor's blazes have these

another very old surveyor's blaze at Cumborah

you can just make out the Govt. arrow on the top of the scar & a 'C'

2 views of a rung Ironbark but who dunnit? Diff species scar differently

I dunno what caused this high scar but dont think its cultural

nor this one - too shallow & the shape is wrong - not a coolamon

This isnt a CMT either - possibly a dozer blade has nicked the tree?

someone was hunting possum with a chainsaw? Indig. or not?

this scar is caused by branch tear. The fallen branch is still there

bird bites - what makes some trees more attractive than others?

old eucalypt slowly engulfs engine relic - iron deficiency?

wood borers

wood canker - top & bottom views

old miner's bucket

canker disease has given this old box a grotesque look

whoever 'rung' this old coolabah wasnt the brightest bulb in the box?

this coolamon prob. wasnt cut with these steel axes I found nearby

scrubcutting, whitewood lopped for sheep so branches are still visible below

I think this wood pattern was caused by canker

this old tin has been shaped for some purpose

while this old tin with a wire handle is half buried

why do termites attack some eucalypts & not others?

chainsaw or axe? who cut down this old box with lignotuber at GG?

the coolamon would be Indig but someone has harvested the off shoots with a steel axe

total debark of central trunk - probably ringbarking? GNR

ringbarking axe scars - didnt cause the scar or kill the tree GNR

rung scartree - sometimes they went around sometimes thru

Ive looked long & hard at this coolabah branch 'S' bend & say natural?

this coolabah was rung a long time ago & tried to recover but failed GNR

surveyor's tree on the banks of the Balonne

joker's tree a little further along this popular fishing spot

dont you just love the nose ring? St George QLD

this swamp dwelling coolabah is badly infected with canker

but it seems like they may have tried to make it into a ringtree?

bumpy barked belah tree - insect infestation?

not cultural in my opinion - too shallow with chainsaw cut stump

old box trees filling up with clay balls is caused by termites apparently

roadside erosion - check out those bimblebox roots!

cactus in a coolabah at Spillsbury- been there awhile I reckon

Not cultural but accidental - Prickly pear is not native to Australia

I think this box burn is a lightning strike not a cultural charcoal rub

2 views of a jigsaw cut modern coolamon. Prob. was cut by Indig person

same with this burl amputation - make lovely wooden bowls

here's another 1 - only put in this archive because I dont Know who is doing this

same with this chainsaw cut possum tree - Indig I expect

someone forgot to water their pot plants? 2 views

these holes in the dead bumble are caused by fungus not people

fencing wire engulfed by blackbox in Marungle

nicely finished water tin from the Cumborah ridges

discard from old bridge at Billybingbone camp

BBB bridge over the Marra creek

Time & nature will win out over scars & ties ...

old Chinese grave along the Ginghet flood plains

glass bottle grave nearby - unknown

unknown scarring possibly related to the rolls of fencing wire?

this looks like a high coolamon but its shallow so more likely cockatoos

again, this looks like re-scarred coolamon but likely a big branch tear scar

old miner's cooking pot Cumborah ridges