Environment
Visitors enjoying the natural environment of the Fitzgerald National Park.
Avoiding the spread of Dieback
Dieback (Phytophthora dieback) is a disease that presents a very real threat to our native species. A fungus that exists in mud and soil, it affects more than 40 per cent of native plant species and has the ability to forever alter some of our bushland by killing off...
Land and life of the Ravensthorpe Region – a quick history
Dr Gillian Craig is a botanist living on a farm near Ravensthorpe. She wrote the following in 2010: A timeline 3000 million years ago – volcanic activity around Ravensthorpe caused lava to flow across the surface to form black basalt. This has weathered to develop...
The Amazing Place In Which We Live
Andy Chapman is a zoologist living on the edge of the Fitzgerald River National Park, near Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. The following text is a copy of a brief address, one of several, given at the official opening of Julia Bell’s Eremia Camel Treks on 20 April 2008....