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.
Episodes
Levi Jessen-Fennell takes us on a walk around Babbington's Hill, where the DJAARA fire crew did their first official cultural burn in the Wombat Forest.
CREDITS Creative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/) "Careless Morning" "Waiting at the Hem" "Carnation Pink" "Jumpup"
BBC Sound Archive - Grey Shrike Thrush call -Golden Whistler call
Ecologist and skink enthusiast Anna Senior tells us about the lives of the endangered Mountain Skinks who live in the Wombat Forest
Audio Credits - Creative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) "Our Only Lark"; "Coulis Coulis" - "Jat Poure" - "Palms Down" -
Amy Calton has been a forest activist for 20 years, and is the founder of Wombat Action Group.
Music Copyright Creative Commons License - Blue Dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/) "Milkwood" - The cabinetmaker "Lover's Hollow" - Bitters "Capilla" - Castle Danger "Four Count" - Reflections
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 Copyright Creative Commons License Blue dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/) "Ranch Hand"; "Highway 430" - Truck Stop
Stefan Arndt, Professor of Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology and researcher at the Ozflux research site, located in west of the Wombat Forest
CREDITS Creative Commons License Blue dot Sessions (app.sessions.blue/) "Picnic March" - Bitters "Fissure Forming" - Trailhead "Silent Ocean" - Eltham House "Brer Spine" - Butterstone
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