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Port Phillip Bay 1896 – ca.1930

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'Ti Tree reserve' 1886 Source: S Calvert SLVic
‘Ti Tree reserve’ 1886 Source: S Calvert SLVic
Dense Coast teatree growth 'Ti-tree on Beach Road' 1910 Black Rock - Beaumaris Source: Sandringham and District Historical Society
Dense Coast Teatree growth ‘Ti-tree on Beach Road’ 1910 Black Rock – Beaumaris Source: Sandringham and District Historical Society
Eroded foreshore reserve 'Sandringham beach from Hampton Point' 1876 -1880s Source: N Caire NGV
Eroded foreshore reserve ‘Sandringham beach from Hampton Point’ 1876 -1880s Source: N Caire NGV
Thinning Coast Teatree 'Brighton Beach Boxing Day' approximately 1880 Source: National Library Australia
Thinning Coast Teatree ‘Brighton Beach Boxing Day’ approximately 1880 Source: National Library Australia
Red Bluff Brighton 1880 -1900 remnant Coast Teatree Source: SLVIC
Red Bluff Brighton 1880 -1900 remnant Coast Teatree Source: SLVIC
Ti Tree Brighton 1911 degraded zone Source: Bayside Library Service Brighton
Ti Tree Brighton 1911 degraded zone Source: Bayside Library Service Brighton
Sandringham Beach Road Tea-tree seedlings base of fence 1900 - 1910 Source: Stout and Griffith SLVic
Sandringham Beach Road Tea-tree seedlings planted base of fence 1900 – 1910 Source: Stout and Griffith SLVic
Sandringham degraded foreshore 1921 Source: WH Hansom SLVic
Sandringham degraded foreshore 1921 Source: WH Hansom SLVic
Donald Macdonald 1920s Source: State Library Victoria
Donald 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 1937-38
Indigenous vegetation pastoral country Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Severe soil-drift South Australia Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Severe soil-drift South Australia Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Overgrazed, windswept plain in the north-eastern pastoral country Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Overgrazed, windswept plain in the north-eastern pastoral country Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Recovery of vegetation after ploughing furrows and protecting from grazing animals Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Recovery of vegetation after ploughing furrows and protecting from grazing animals Source: South Australian Soil Conservation Committee 1937-38
Plough furrows have assisted the establishment of annual plants Source: Woodroffe (1947)
Plough 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
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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Panorama of Whyalla from Hummock Hill 1935 Threatening sand dune centre Source: National Trust (SA)View of Whyalla 1941 Stabilised sand dune centre Source: SLSA
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

 

 

Whyalla beach sand-dune natural regeneration site Source: BHP Review 1939
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: SLSA
Cable Hill Broken Hill 1915 a degraded landscape Source: SLSA
NSW Minister Mines and Forests to Albert Morris Secretary BFNC 1936 Source: State Archives NSW
NSW Minister Mines and Forests to Albert Morris Secretary BFNC 1936 Source: State Archives NSW
Margaret and Albert Morris undated Source: BFNC Outback Archives
Margaret and Albert Morris undated Source: BFNC Outback Archives
May Harding conservation advocate Source: BFNC Outback Archives
May Harding conservation advocate Source: BFNC Outback Archives
NSW Minister for Conservation to May Harding Secretary BFNC 1946 Source: State Archives NSW
NSW Minister for Conservation to May Harding Secretary BFNC 1946 Source: State Archives NSW
Broken Hill dust storm approximately 1907 Source: SLSA (B54756/18)
Broken Hill dust storm approximately 1907 Source: SLSA (B54756/18)
Indigenous vegetation The Pinnacles Broken Hill ca.1890 Source: SLSA (B-73354-5)
Undegraded indigenous vegetation The Pinnacles Broken Hill ca.1890 Source: SLSA (B-73354-5)
Plant regeneration at Broken Hill Source: Pidgeon and Ashby 1940
Broken Hill regeneration area with fenced regeneration reserves and unfenced, stock exposed sections Source: Pidgeon and Ashby 1940

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Newly fenced 1950-51 regeneration area displaying initial re-vegetation Source: Zinc Corporation 19511950-51 regeneration reserve, Broken Hill regeneration area, with mulga, saltbush Source: P Ardill 2017
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

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