Australia’s Ever-changing Forests Series (National Conference Proceedings)
Australia’s Ever-changing Forests: Proceedings of the First National Conference on Australian Forest History. Edited by Kevin J. Frawley and Noel M. Semple, 1988. Department of Geography and Oceanography, Australian Defence Force Academy. Download PDF from The Fenner School of Environment and Society (PDF, 21.5MB).
Australia’s Ever-changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australian Forest History. Edited by John Dargavel and Sue Feary, 1993. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University.
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Australia’s Ever-changing Forests III: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian Forest History. Edited by John Dargavel, 1997. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University
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Australia’s Ever-changing Forests IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Australian Forest History. Edited by John Dargavel and Brenda Libbis, 1999. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University
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Australia’s Ever-changing Forests V: Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Australian Forest History (Hobart, Tas, Feb 2002). Edited by John Dargavel, Denise Gaughwin and Brenda Libbis, 2002. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University
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A Forest Conscienceness: Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society, Inc. Edited by Mike Calver, Heidi Bigler-Cole, Geoffrey Bolton, Andrea Gaynor, Pierre Horwitz, Jenny Mills and Grant Wardell-Johnson, 2005. Millpress Science Publishers, Rotterdam. Access the proceedings in the conference section.
Trans-Tasman Forest History: History, Culture and Management 2007
Selected papers from this conference have been published as
Trans-Tasman Forest History, a special edition of the journal Environment & History,
Vol.14 No.4, November 2008, edited by Brett J. Stubbs, Paul Star and Michael M. Roche
Australia’s Ever-changing Forests VI: Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Australian Forest History . Edited by Brett J. Stubbs, Jane Lennon, Alison Specht and John Taylor, 2012.
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Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories
No.1 Short overviews (Ed. John Dargavel)
No.2 Araucarian Forests (Ed. John Dargavel)
Callitris Conference, Nov 2000
In November 2000 the Society joined with The Australian National University (Environmental History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies and Department of Forestry) and Macquarie University (Department of Physical Geography) in convening a conference on the history of the Callitris forests. The conference was held at Coonabarabran in NSW, near the Callitris forests of the Pilliga.
Perfumed pineries: Environmental history of Australia’s Callitris forests. Edited by John Dargavel, Diane Hart and Brenda Libbis, 2001. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University. Download Perfumed pineries as a PDF (PDF, 9.8MB).
CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN: BLUNDELLS FLAT AND SHANNONS FLAT, A.C.T.
Much of the natural and cultural heritage of Blundells Flat and Shannons Flat in the northwest of the ACT was burnt during the 2003 Canberra fires. In 2004, the Society received an ACT Heritage Grant to prepare a Conservation Management Plan for Blundells Flat and Shannons Flat. The report is written by AFHS member Mark Butz.
The need for a Conservation Management Plan for Blundells Flat and Shannons Flat, ACT was prompted by the 2003 bushfires in Canberra, which burnt out all but one of the ACT historic arboreta, including the historically significant poplar arboretum at Blundells Flat. Concerned about loss of natural and cultural heritage, Friends of the ACT Arboreta (FACTA) obtained a grant through the Bushfire Recovery Program to examine options for the recovery of the arboretum at Blundells. FACTA engaged heritage professional Mark Butz to undertake the study, the results of which appear in the publication entitled Blundells Flat area ACT: management of natural and cultural heritage values. Background study for the Friends of ACT Arboreta, Canberra. 2004
This report formed the basis of a comprehensive paper presented by Mark at the Society’s 2004 conference at Augusta in Western Australia [papers from this conference will soon be available on the Society’s website]. Due to the Society’s interest in the role of arboreta in Australia’s forest history, discussions were held with Mark regarding additional research into Blundells Flat arboreta. The Society then applied for and received a grant from the 2004-2005 ACT Heritage Grants Program to prepare a Conservation Management Plan For Blundells Flat And Shannons Flat.
Mark Butz has prepared this plan over a number of years, but it has only recently been finalised and is now available for download on the Society’s website. It is a detailed and carefully researched document providing an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the complex interweaving of nature and culture in the history of human settlement in the ACT. Users of the report should abide by normal copyright laws.