Topics: Environment: North West
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Barbara Grew describes the fight to protect a local art site and the land and community from the proposed expansion of the Calga sand mine
1789 - view
yams in “greatest plenty” on the marshy banks
1824 - view
Timbercutters advance
1825 - view
inexhaustible body of sea shells, offer a valuable manure for generations to come
1826 - view
open elevated Forest Country
1826 - view
sandstone mountains with deep gorges and razor-back ridges that end suddenly in towering bluffs
1826 - view
Lake Paterson is one important wetland. It is increasingly drained for agriculture
1827 - view
rich alluvial land
1828 - view
mangrove mudflats
1842 - view
The lake abounded with fish of all sorts…several points of land which extended into the lake were black with ducks and water fowl; they were in the thousands [with] countless pelicans
1889 - view
Margaret Smith Hall (1833-1909), John Smith Hall ’s unmarried sister purchased sixty acres of Crown Land adjoining her land and “Lilburn Cottage” situated on a portion of “Lilburndale”
1890 - view
They grow and harvest vegetables including corn, potatoes and cabbages
1941 - view
The river teeming with fish, even the calmness of the water, the high tides of Xmas, and the floods. Bird calls
1941 - view
black currants, puddings and wild raspberrys
1941 - view
wattle tree
1941 - view
native bee nests
2009 - view
Wonnarua Aboriginal Corporation to grow local trees to reclaim bushland