Survival of Australia's iconic, giant & legendary blackbutt trees | Hidden Gems #4 | ABC Australia 

I first saw these two trees when I was about 7 years old......that's nearly 70 years ago. Our family lived in the Camden Haven valley north of Middle Brother Mountain. It formed our southern backdrop and North Brother (or "Laurieton Mountain" as we locals called it) was to our east. Back in the 1950s - and into the early-to-mid 1960s - the entire region consisted of dairy farms and timber mills; at one point there were thirteen mills within a ten-mile radius of our town. Today the dairy farms are nearly all growing macadamias and I think the only mill is the one at Herons Creek, now owned by Boral. Our neighbour was a foreman/supervisor for Herons Creek Timber Mills and it was he who introduced me to these two enormous Blackbutts. I used to accompany him sometimes on his daily round when I was on school holidays. Although he was in the timber-harvesting profession he had a deep love and respect for the bush and all the flora and fauna which covered this region. Many years after I was privileged to see these trees I took my wife and two-year old daughter to see them when we holidayed in my old hometown in 1982. I hope that they will still be there so that my grandchildren can take their children to see them.

Thankyou for sharing culture, loved it

Wow beautiful, have to see it in person one day.

It is so sad to hear about these ancient trees being cut. People are so ignorant.

I wish I had a school like this one that I could have learnt from when I was a child.

trees would have an incredible story to tell, if only most people had ears to hear understand the Mother Earth tires of being mistreated..

Our trees are life we need too start planting alot more trees and stop distorying nature.

How is it your back yard

yo first

You're not your ancestors by no means you could no more survive in the outback than somebody out of Hollywood

Appreciate English colonisation for what it was, you're still free in a free country thanks to the sacrifice and protection by patriotic immigrants ,,,,not totally a bad outcome.

What a joke.

good timber. cut them down