by Anne-Maree McInerney, Director of the Gould League Although the closing of the Forest Discovery Centre in 2012 was a massive blow to the community of Toolangi, it didn’t see the demise of Forest Education, as Australia’s oldest registered environmental charity...
by Steve Meacher In the late 1980s there was increasing controversy regarding the native forest logging industry, particularly the wood chipping sector. The industry was spending millions of dollars to improve its image. Against this background, in the early 1990s the...
by Bernie Mace The small settlement of Toolangi, located on the ridge of the dividing range approximately 70 kilometres northeast of Melbourne, has long been appreciated for its mountain forest ‘ambience¢. In the context of the much broader environment, it’s located...
by Lynn Dean The Knitting Nannas of Toolangi (KNOT) was a group of grandmothers from Toolangi and Healesville who were deeply concerned about the logging of Toolangi State Forest. Even though there was a history of logging over the decades in Toolangi, it had...
by Steve Meacher The Toolangi-Castella area prior to European settlement Prior to the incursion of Europeans, the mountains of the Great Dividing Range surrounding Toolangi and Castella were dominated by spectacular, old growth forests (200-450 years of age). Severe...
by Steve Meacher The timber industry around Toolangi and Healesville peaked between 1917 and 1928 but declined due to the Depression, the 1926 bushfires and the 1929 timber strike[i]. In 1936 the Victorian government, the Forests Commission and Australian Paper...