Category: wetlands
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The Lachlan River at Cowra
We briefly stayed at Cowra whilst on a small road trip to Canberra and Melbourne in August. I wanted to have a look at the Lachlan River as it is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment and hence a part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The river, which starts near near Goulburn in the Great Dividing Range,…
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The Coorong’s wetlands
The Coorong wetlands in South Australia are a Ramsar listed wetland and is often seen as natural, given that it is national park. But it is deeply historical as it has been shaped by entangled changes to human and nonhuman lives.
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Flood Country
Living in flood country means living with droughts and floods, with rivers that have variable flows, and floods that spread out onto the floodplains.
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wetlands v agriculture
Wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin river system can be understood as watery places that are co-constituted by an assemblage of human and nonhuman relations and they are, historically, the changing outcome of a plurality of multispecies interactions. So argues Emily O’Gorman, an environmental historian, in her recent book Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories…
Nourishing Terrains 