Browse Items (7 total)
- Tags: Wetlands
Culgoa - Balonne: Oral History of Michael Anderson
Tags: Aboriginal customs, Aboriginal kinship systems, Aboriginal spirituality, Connection to country, Cotton, Culgoa-Balonne, Cultural flows, Dams--Australia, Dreaming (Spiritual), Ecological sustainability, Environmental flows, Fishes--Cannibalism, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Migration, Floods, Indigenous peoples, Landholder, Riparian areas--Management, Siltation, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water allocations, Weirs, Wetlands, Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi / Yuwaaliyaay language
Position: 45 (130 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Hayley Purbrick
Hayley Purbrick is a fifth generation member of the Purbrick Family who owns the Tahbilk Winery. She grew up on nearby Lake Nagambie and has interacted with the river since she was a child. She is involved in the…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Droughts, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Goulburn, Landholder, Reptiles--Identification, Revegetation, Water allocations, Weirs, Wetlands
Position: 173 (68 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of John Koehn, John Douglas, and Roy Patterson
John Koehn is a research officer for the Arthur Rylah Institute, Melbourne, and studies freshwater fish ecology. John Douglas works for Victorian Fisheries, and Roy Patterson is a…
Tags: Billabongs, Ecological sustainability, Environmental flows, Fish habitat improvement, Fishes--Identification, Fishing industry, Flood plains, Geomorphology, Goulburn, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, Irrigation, Physical characteristics (Animals), Recreational fisher, Riparian areas, Scientist, Taungurung people, Wetlands
Position: 109 (89 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Rolf Weber
Rolf talks about: wetland vegetation; role of plants in providing protection for fish and their eggs; Myriophyllum…
Tags: Fish habitat improvement, Fisheries, Fishes--Identification, Goulburn, Plants--Identification, Restoration ecology, Scientific methods, Scientist, Wetlands
Position: 150 (74 views)
Katarapko: Oral History of Barry Porter
Born in 1949, Barry lives in Berri, in the Riverland area. Having worked on a pile driving barge and worked most his life on the river, Barry has extensive knowledge of locks and weirs from the Murray…
Tags: Environmental flows, Family life, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Speciation, Floods, Katarapko, Lure fishing, Native animals, Physical characteristics (Animals), Recreational fisher, Salinisation, Water levels, Water temperature, Weeds, Weirs, Wetlands
Position: 129 (79 views)
Katarapko: Oral History of Kingsley Abdulla
Kingsley is from the Gerard Aboriginal community in South Australia. Born in 1971, he has always lived on the river; camping with family and extended family, a time for Elders to educate the…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Burial sites, Dredging, Droughts, Erosion, Fishes--Identification, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, Katarapko, Salinisation, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water quality, Wetlands
Position: 8 (308 views)
Murray: Oral History of John Douglas
Born in 1960, John grew up in Melbourne, visiting with extended family around the Mildura area. He worked at Snobs Creek as a technician, becoming an expert…
Tags: Communities, Environmental flows, Fieldwork, Fisheries, Fishes--Breeding, Murray, Naturalists, Recreational fisher, Water temperature, Wetlands
Position: 141 (76 views)