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This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australias rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

While interest in rainforests and the movement for their conservation are often mistakenly portrayed as features of the last few decades, the debate over human usage of rainforests stretches well back into the nineteenth century. In the modern world, rainforests are generally considered the most attractive of the ecosystems, being seen as lush, vibrant, immense, mysterious, spiritual and romantic. Rainforests hold a special place; both providing a direct link to Gondwanaland and the dinosaurs and today being the home of endangered species and highly rich in biodiversity.

They are also a critical part of Australias heritage. Indeed, large areas of Australian rainforests are now covered by World Heritage Listing. However, they also represent a dissonant heritage. What exactly constitutes rainforest, how it should be managed and used, and how much should be protected are all issues which remain hotly contested. Debates around rainforests are particularly dominated by the contradiction of competing views and uses seeing rainforests either as untapped resources for agriculture and forestry versus valuing and preserving them as attractive and sublime natural wonders. Australia fits into this global story as a prime example but is also of interest for its aspects that are exceptional, including the intensity of clearing at certain periods and for its place in the early development of national parks.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental History, Australian History and Comparative History.

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An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939
This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australias rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.
While interest in rainforests and the movement for their conservation are often mistakenly portrayed as features of the last few decades, the debate over human usage of rainforests stretches well back into the nineteenth century. In the modern world, rainforests are generally considered the most attractive of the ecosystems, being seen as lush, vibrant, immense, mysterious, spiritual and romantic. Rainforests hold a special place; both providing a direct link to Gondwanaland and the dinosaurs and today being the home of endangered species and highly rich in biodiversity.
They are also a critical part of Australias heritage. Indeed, large areas of Australian rainforests are now covered by World Heritage Listing. However, they also represent a dissonant heritage. What exactly constitutes rainforest, how it should be managed and used, and how much should be protected are all issues which remain hotly contested. Debates around rainforests are particularly dominated by the contradiction of competing views and uses seeing rainforests either as untapped resources for agriculture and forestry versus valuing and preserving them as attractive and sublime natural wonders. Australia fits into this global story as a prime example but is also of interest for its aspects that are exceptional, including the intensity of clearing at certain periods and for its place in the early development of national parks.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental History, Australian History and Comparative History.
Warwick Frost is Professor of Tourism, Heritage and the Media at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include environmental history, comparative economic history and the history of national parks and zoos.
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An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939
Fire, Rain, Settlers and Conservation
Warwick Frost
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An Environmental History of
Australian Rainforests
until 1939
Fire, Rain, Settlers and Conservation
Warwick Frost
First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park Abingdon Oxon - photo 1
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Contents
Introduction
In the winter of 1886, Euphemia Williams travelled from Buninyong near Ballarat to the Great Forest of South Gippsland. She was about 19 years old and she carried with her a seven-week old baby. Three years earlier, her husband William had selected land in the forest and then proposed to her. He had worked at clearing the vegetation and erecting a house and now they were moving there permanently. The first part of her journey was a 200-kilometre train trip from Ballarat through Melbourne to Drouin at the forests edge. Then she experienced a rather bumpy 30-kilometre coach journey to the frontier town of Poowong. Finally, after being reunited with her husband, she rode 30 kilometres further south to their new home at Jumbunna East.
For Williams, this was her first horse ride of such a distance, and she was glad they were able to take it slowly. Her husband carried their baby in a large shawl tied over his shoulder. Over 30 years later, she recalled how as they neared their selection:
We plunged into a very narrow bridle track, where we could touch the trees on either side, and could not see the sky in some places, so dense was the scrub. Our horses had to scramble over logs and through mud knee deep nearly all the way. At last we came to what was supposed to be a clearing on top of a very high hill and on a ledge some 200 feet below my husband pointed to what appeared to be some galvanised iron on top of a pile of logs, and said, There is your home. At first I could not speak, and my eyes filled with tears. That one spot of iron, in the midst of a sea of logs and stumps, looked so desolate that my heart failed me for the moment. However, after scrambling over logs, etc., we managed to get to the cabin, which, proved to be logs piled one on top of the other in chock and log fashion. There was a large fireplace, made of wood outside, and lined with stones and mud. There were also windows and a door, but it was not easy to get inside, as there was a huge stump in the doorway.
(South Gippsland, 1920: 348349)
Reunited as a family, the Williams worked at creating a home in their isolated bush selection:
As the logs did not touch each other in places, there was plenty of ventilation, and the wind blew our hair about during the night. Next day we cut strips of tree ferns and put them in the crevices on the inside, and at night we started to line the rooms with hessian and paper. The next work was to make some furniture out of a few pine boards and blackwood logs. All this kind of work had to be done at night, as there was fencing, clearing, etc., to be done in the daytime. As we could bring so little with us, we had not even a piece of tin to make into a shovel for putting the burning coals on the camp-oven, so I had to use a piece of pine board cut like a spade, and dip it in water every time I used it.
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