Updated October 2009 Photographs of Western Australian south west forest and flora

karri, marri & jarrah
forest and flora

Brookes Inlet from Mt Frankland, 7th December 1988
Sun occluded by layer of smoke over forest from DEC/CALM burn

Regrowth karri Eucalyptus diversicolor dawn mist, Quinninup, March 1998

Eucalyptus diversicolor Boorara Forest, January 2000

Karri Eucalyptus diversicolor in stand of marri, Corymbia calophylla Boorara State Forest February 2002

Eucalyptus diversicolor Boorara State Forest

Boorara Forest was clearfelled (clearcut) in 2000 by the Western Australian Government and timber industry against determined protest by local environment groups. During the Boorara logging a log truck driver pointed to his loaded truck on the edge of Borrara Forest on 15th March 2000 and said "Photograph these, you will never see their like again" - he was right

Fruiting Zamia, Wilmot State Forest, January 2004

Xanthorrhoea, Germaine George, South Australia, 1983

Zamia in stand of Xanthorrhoea, Wilmot State Forest, January 2004

Burnt tiny Diverse Ecotype Zone (DEZ) of Melaleuca spadjacent to Durham Road, Karara State Forest, Western Australia, 2004

Fungus, possibly Cantharellus concinnus
Common name Pink Chantarelle
Northcliffe, Western Australia, July 2001

I was on a mid winter walk and this fungus was on my path. Thanks to Dr Richard Robinson, Science Division, Dept of Environment and Conservation for provisional identification from this scan from the original transparency