Seeing the wood for the trees

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Saturday 16 November 2013 1:30PM (view full episode)

Image: Alongside the railway in Burnley, Victoria. Some of the trees in the area are Aboriginal scarred trees, others are caused naturally. (James Pattison; ABC) Link to larger image.

In just one of the countless bends of the Yarra River that snakes its way around Melbourne, the trees tell a story.
The red gums bear old scars where the Wurundjeri people, prior to European occupation, cut away the bark to make canoes. Since the process doesn’t kill the tree this was the district’s first sustainable timber industry.


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