Framings of Wombat Forest
Perched on the toe of the Great Dividing Range, where Dja Dja Wurrung, Wada Wurrung and Wurundjeri lands meet, lies the Wombat Forest. This 70,000 ha patch of bushland harbours the headwaters of 7 major rivers and hosts over 550 species of native flora and fauna, many of which are rare, and some which occur nowhere else on Earth. In the last 250 years it’s been mined, logged, grazed, burned and battered by storms, yet it still grows on - perhaps a little crooked, but still loved and lived in by many. But now, as we turn to face the gathering storms of climate change, we are faced with some questions: Where do we belong, as humans, in the forest system? How do we care for the places we love as we navigate the turbulence of climate upheaval? What has been lost, what is left, and where to from here? Big Questions. We wouldn’t presume to have the answers. But all the same we invite you to ponder as you wander through this landscape of perspectives, each face and voice another thread to stitch into the stories we tell of the Wombat Forest.
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Episodes
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20 hours ago
Gary Lawrence steps us through the history of Wombat Forest, and the intertwinement of the forest, the groundwater, and the community of Daylesford
Music Credits:Creative Commons License Blue dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)- "GreyCase" - Smoke Shop- "Lush Arborio" - Sungrazer- "Trek on Alpus" - EarthMover- "Breeze Bloc" - Still and Shallow
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20 hours ago
20 hours ago
Senior lecturer and mountain biker Antanas Spokevicius takes his students to the Wombat Forest, when he's not exploring it on two wheels himself.
Music CopyrightCreative Commons License Blue dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)"Ranch Hand"; "Highway 430" - Truck Stop
20 hours ago
20 hours ago
Tom Fairman is a Forest Scientist, who researched the storm event which impacted the Wombat Forest in 2021
Music Credit:Creative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)Picnic MarchLick StickMilkwoodJadie Grange
4 days ago
4 days ago
Local field naturalist and ecologist Tanya Loos
CREDITSCreative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)"Erben Plains" - Cataldo"The Poplar Grove" - Bitters
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4 days ago
Stefan Arndt, Professor of Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology and researcher at the Ozflux research site, located in west of the Wombat Forest
CREDITSCreative Commons License Blue dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)"Picnic March" - Bitters"Fissure Forming" - Trailhead"Silent Ocean" - Eltham House"Brer Spine" - Butterstone
4 days ago
4 days ago
Forest Activist and Founder of Wombat Action Group
CREDITSCreative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/)"Milkwood" - The cabinetmaker"Lover's Hollow" - Bitters"Capilla" - Castle Danger"Four Count" - Reflections