In the late 1990s, eight friends went looking for the most degraded, clapped-out piece of farmland they could find.The reality of climate change had entered the mainstream collective consciousness, and the government had recently limited the scope of the Native Title Act, which was born out of the historic Mabo decision that capsized the myth of terra nullius.
"You go to Gariwerd/The Grampians or Wilson's Prom, and they're beautiful and you feel this connection, you feel something special. It must be that the whole country has that possibility, so we wanted to recreate that."The area had been cleared and used for sheep grazing, and while it wasn't great agricultural land, it was useful for what we wanted, Mr O'Connor said.Fortunately, remnant native grasses and a seed population remained in the soil, he said.
Occasionally they made mistakes, like the time they sourced the wrong trees and planted the invasive Sydney Wattle instead of the Silver Wattle. ReSource RICA is located near other bushland reserves and a national park, and Trust for Nature's north-west area manager David Dore said there were ecological benefits to the connectivity being built between existing native forests and the site.
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