Historical environmental repair and conservation in Australia
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Port Phillip Bay 1896 – ca.1930
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‘Ti Tree reserve’ 1886 Source: S Calvert SLVicDense Coast Teatree growth ‘Ti-tree on Beach Road’ 1910 Black Rock – Beaumaris Source: Sandringham and District Historical SocietyEroded foreshore reserve ‘Sandringham beach from Hampton Point’ 1876 -1880s Source: N Caire NGVThinning Coast Teatree ‘Brighton Beach Boxing Day’ approximately 1880 Source: National Library Australia Red Bluff Brighton 1880 -1900 remnant Coast Teatree Source: SLVIC Ti Tree Brighton 1911 degraded zone Source: Bayside Library Service BrightonSandringham Beach Road Tea-tree seedlings planted base of fence 1900 – 1910 Source: Stout and Griffith SLVicSandringham degraded foreshore 1921 Source: WH Hansom SLVicDonald Macdonald 1920s Source State Library Victoria
Arid lands restoration, South Australia, ca.1930
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Indigenous vegetation pastoral country Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38Severe soil-drift South Australia Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38Overgrazed, windswept plain in the north-eastern pastoral country Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38Recovery of vegetation after ploughing furrows and protecting from grazing animals Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38Plough furrows have assisted the establishment of annual plants Source: Woodroffe (1947)A Wirraminna station flora reserve in 1936 after five years of fencing Source: H Peters Collection State Library South Australia B77568/86
Whyalla 1932 – 1937
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Natural regeneration at Whyalla beach Left: Sand dunes degraded by livestock ‘Panorama of Whyalla from Hummock Hill’ 1935 Source: National Trust South Australia Right: Sand dunes stablilised by natural regeneration of indigenous vegetation after fencing to exclude livestock “View of Whyalla’ 1941 Source: State Library South Australia
Natural regeneration in sand dune, Whyalla beach Hummock Hill at rear Source: BHP Review 1939
Broken Hill regeneration area 1936
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Cable Hill Broken Hill 1915 a degraded landscape Source: SLSANSW Minister Mines and Forests to Albert Morris Secretary BFNC 1936 Source: State Archives NSWMargaret and Albert Morris undated Source: BFNC Outback ArchivesMay Harding conservation advocate Source: BFNC Outback ArchivesNSW Minister for Conservation to May Harding Secretary BFNC 1946 Source: State Archives NSWBroken Hill dust storm approximately 1907 Source: SLSA (B54756/18)Undegraded indigenous vegetation The Pinnacles Broken Hill ca.1890 Source: SLSA (B-73354-5)Broken Hill regeneration area with fenced regeneration reserves and unfenced, stock exposed sections Source: Pidgeon and Ashby 1940
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Vegetation contrasts, Broken Hill regeneration area Left: A section of the new 1950-51 regeneration reserve, immediately after fencing Source: Zinc Corporation 1951 Right: A section of the same 1950-51 regeneration reserve in 2017, with Mulga on ridge, saltbushes on plain Source: P Ardill
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Acknowledgements:
Bayside Library Service Brighton
BFNC Barrier Field Naturalists Club, Broken Hill
BHP Broken Hill Proprietary Company
NGV National Gallery of Victoria
NLA National Library of Australia
National Trust (South Australia)
Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library, Broken Hill Council, New South Wales
Pidgeon, I. & Ashby, E. (1940) “Studies in Applied Ecology I. A Statistical Analysis of Regeneration Following Protection from Grazing” in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW. 65 pp.123-143.
Sandringham and District Historical Society
State Archives and Records, New South Wales Government
SLNSW State Library of New South Wales
SLSA State Library of South Australia
SLVic State Library of Victoria
South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38 images courtesy South Australian Government Department of Primary Industries and Regions
Trove online data base, National Library of Australia and Partners
Woodroffe K (1947) Chronicle ‘Saltbush and Bluebush’ 21 August p.46