Walks/places that no longer exist?

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Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby ellak » Wed 25 Apr, 2018 8:12 pm

Hey everyone!
Hope this is in the right place, if not sorry!
I'm doing a project for uni where I want to show human impact/disturbance in Tasmania. I'm looking for natural places, ie. a waterfall, a special clearing etc that no longer exists due to human impact/climate change/development. For example, maybe there was a forest in a place that was cleared for housing development. I thought this would be a good place to ask!
I'm looking for images, stories, and maybe videos of the place.
Thank you!
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby taswegian » Wed 25 Apr, 2018 8:42 pm

hello Ellak
Are you looking for places that are now drowned under Hydro dams? Lake Pedder, Forth Falls etc?
Not now available because of change of ownership? Bike tracks? Private ventures in WHA's?
Then there's landslides on face of Western Tiers?

there's no doubt areas around towns and cities will have changed even if its from productive farming to residential blocks.
I've seen inner pockets of native forest give way to urban sprawl.

Road widening and bypasses etc have an impact on land use change and their inherent characteristics.

Transmission lines crisscross the landscape and clearing and road accesses have created change.

perhaps the biggest impact is forest activities.
The mass changes from vast areas of farming land to eucalypt (pulpwood) plantations and now the reverse has/ is changing the landscape.

Not sure exactly what fits your needs.

Edit: Hobart Rivulet would be a typical example I'd suggest.
The consequences of 'civilising' it would not be difficult to collate.
Masons Creek in Ulverstone is similar on a smaller scale.

A small island in the Mersey River disappeared yonks ago at Horsehead Creek, I imagine other estuaries could tell similar tales.
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby wander » Thu 26 Apr, 2018 11:23 am

Lake Pedder.
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby Strider » Thu 26 Apr, 2018 8:59 pm

Macquarie Harbour is quite topical lately...


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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby Mechanic-AL » Sat 28 Apr, 2018 10:10 am

Sadly......
the 3 Capes no longer exists for me.
"What went ye out into the wilderness to see?
A reed shaken in the wind"?
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby taswegian » Sat 28 Apr, 2018 11:01 am

I echo Mechanic-Al's comments and not in any way interested in drawing this into a debate wonder what Ellack's hoping to glean from her research.
But these sort of issues are right at the heart of what makes a (natural) place "special".
Yesterday the ABC news covered a tourism seminar where there was a warning of not killing the very 'thing' that makes Tasmania Tasmanian.

I'd be interested to hear more from her research and her aspirations.
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby tastrekker » Sat 28 Apr, 2018 6:13 pm

Heemskirk Falls mostly drowned under Lake Pieman. Like the original Lake Pedder, I never got to see Heemskirk Falls or Forth Falls Hence the photo below is not mine :(

As a child I remember an amazing photo behind the counter of the old Wilmot Shop showing several tiers of Forth Falls most of which are now below the waters of Lake Barrington. The waterfall mural in Sheffield depicts the second and most spectacular of the drops which have been drowned.

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Dombrovskis, Peter. (1974). Heemskirk Falls, west coast, Tasmania, 1974?, 2 Retrieved April 28, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-151308260
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Re: Walks/places that no longer exist?

Postby ellak » Wed 02 May, 2018 4:21 pm

Thanks everyone for your comments,
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@Tasweigan I'm hoping to collect stories and images for an art project where I need to put together a mini exhibition based on a theme. I chose to look at human impacts on our environment in hope to make people think about their impacts. Not to create debate at all, I was hoping through sharing places and stories of places that have disappeared it might make people think more about the amazing surroundings and places we have in Tasmania that are slowly disappearing due to our impacts
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