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Barmah-Millewa red gum forest Information (Person)

The Barmah-Millewa red gum forests are a eucalyptus camaldulensis dominated temperate region forest community, based on alluvial plains of the Murray River. At 65,000 ha (160,000 acres) it is the largest Red Gum forest in the world, straddling the border of Victoria and New South Wales along the Murray River, due north of Melbourne. Major towns and settlements near the forest include Echuca, Moama, Deniliquin and Mathoura.

Formation

The formation of the famous Barmah red gum forests is due to a relatively recent geological event in the Murray-Darling Basin involving the Cadell Fault. About 25,000 years ago, displacement occurred along the Cadell fault, raising the eastern edge of the fault (which runs north-south) 8–12 metres (26–39 ft) above the floodplain.

This precipitated a complex series of events. A section of the original Murray River channel immediately behind the fault was abandoned, and exists today as an empty channel known as Green Gully. The Goulburn River was dammed by the southern end of the fault to create a natural lake. The Murray River flowed to the north around the Cadell Fault, creating the channel of the Edward River which exists today and through which much of the Murray River's waters still flow. The natural dam on the Goulburn River failed at some later stage, draining the lake behind it, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating "The Barmah Choke" and "The Narrows" (where the river channel is unusually narrow), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again. The primary result of the Cadell Fault however is that the west-flowing water of the Murray River strikes the north-south running fault and diverts both north and south around the fault in the two main channels (Edwards and ancestral Goulburn) as well as a fan of small streams, and regularly floods a large amount of low-lying country in the area.

These swampy, regularly flooding conditions are perfect for river red gums, which rapidly formed forests in the area. River red gum seeds germinate readily after floods and require regular spring floods throughout their life to survive. Thus the displacement of the Cadell Fault 25,000 years BP led directly to the formation of the Barmah river red gum forests.

Human usage

It retains enormous cultural significance to the Indigenous traditional owners, the Yorta Yorta Nation. Like many stands of river red gum, the Barmah-Millewa has been drastically altered by over 100 years of timber harvesting. Old growth, hollow-bearing trees provide habitat for rare and threatened fauna such as the superb parrot, brush-tailed phascogale and inland carpet python, though these species are currently not under threat. Logging of the red gum forests has provided The increasing scale of logging machinery is creating large areas of intensive soil disturbance and bare earth, which is likely to increase weed invasion and increase the likelihood of the extinction of rare understorey plants.

Conservation

In the Murray-Darling Basin, significant flooding is now rare due to river regulation for irrigation, and as a result, 75% of River red gums in the lower Murray are stressed, dead or dying. In addition, logging of the forests have reduced their area. On the Victorian side of the Murray, the Barmah National Park has been formed through which Victoria manages conservation activities. On the NSW side, the forest is included in the Mathoura State Forest.

Fleet status

last updated 11 August 2015