Category Archives: environment

Launching Murray-Darling Mysteries

Posted on March 19, 2024 by redgumgirl

My book ‘Murray-Darling Mysteries — Nature’s unique strategies for survival in the Murray and Darling Rivers in Australia’ is being launched on the Spotlight Network on Tuesday 19 March at 8 pm New York Time (or 11 am Wednesday 20 … Continue reading →

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SAVE OUR RIVERS DELEGATION

Posted on November 16, 2023 by redgumgirl

Tuesday 14 November 2023 was an important day for the future of the Murray-Darling Basin! A delegation of more than 20 people from across the Basin travelled to Parliament House in Canberra, to deliver a petition on behalf of 10,000 … Continue reading →

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Lerp Attack Hindering Eucalypt Recovery

Posted on November 1, 2023 by redgumgirl

The crazy weather patterns of 2023 have thrown another spanner in the works! Just when the eucalypts of the Adelaide Hills had a chance to put on a burst of healthy growth after many years of stress, they are being … Continue reading →

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Lower Murray Valley is recovering from the Big Flood

Posted on April 9, 2023 by redgumgirl

There is a miracle happening on Lower Murray River floodplains! Thousands of tiny green seedlings are emerging on moist floodplain soils, in the aftermath of the long inundation during the 2022-23 floods. In April 2023, trees that were severely stressed … Continue reading →

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Moving Murray Mouth!

Posted on February 23, 2023 by redgumgirl

Water in the southern Murray-Darling Basin travels 2300 km from the Snowy Mountains to the Murray Mouth, while Darling River water travels more than 2700 km to reach the Mouth. The Mouth first closed in the early 1980s and further … Continue reading →

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Living on the edge in the Murray Valley

Posted on January 7, 2023 by redgumgirl

In early January 2023, as the peak of the floodwaters advances down the Lower Murray Valley from Morgan to Mannum, holiday house communities which perch on the river terraces are paying the price for building on the edge of the … Continue reading →

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A whole new major flood experience

Posted on January 1, 2023 by redgumgirl

The Murray River flood of 2022 is keeping the journalists and hydrologists guessing! It is not behaving like the more familiar flash floods of the eastern states and it is not following the recorded patterns of past big floods, when … Continue reading →

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A free-flowing river once again!

Posted on December 4, 2022 by redgumgirl

The Lower Murray River is flowing free and spilling over its banks for the first time in decades! Since construction in 1922-40, the lower reaches of the Murray River have been controlled by a series of weirs from Mildura to … Continue reading →

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GURRA GURRA WETLANDS FLOWING AGAIN

Posted on November 30, 2022 by redgumgirl

The 2022 floods in the Murray River in South Australia are literally life-saving for water-starved floodplains and their ecosystems. River red gums and black box woodlands up to medium levels were in their sixth year without water, and both species … Continue reading →

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BANROCK BLACK BOX TREES FINALLY GETTING A DRINK!

Posted on November 29, 2022 by redgumgirl

The water regime for Banrock Station wetlands has been managed since 2003 to simulate a natural wetting and drying regime, bringing diversity and life back into wetlands which had been permanently flooded and dominated by carp. The process was greatly … Continue reading →

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