Project Description

Renewal in the desert.
The Barrier Field Naturalists’ Club And The Broken Hill Regeneration Reserves. Celebrating the restoration vision Of Albert Morris.

Filmed in and around Broken Hill in 2017.

Script: Virginia Bear and Tein McDonald.

Thanks to everyone who assisted during filming in 2017 and editing in 2021.

Particular thanks to the following people: Tein McDonald, Louise Brodie, Jane Gye, Scott Meier, Lyndal Sullivan, Ann Evers, Lindy Molesworth, James Bourne, Meredith Robertson, Bruce Green, Miles Clothier, Wayne Lovis, Susan Thomas, Christine Adams, Barbra Briggs and Peter Ardill.

And the following organisations: Barrier Field Naturalists Club, Broken Hill City Council, Broken Hill City Council Outback Archives, Landcare Broken Hill, Broken Hill Art Exchange, Broken Hill Railway Museum.

Thank you to the generous sponsors and donors for helping us to tell the tale and share the story

PLATINUM: Dragonfly Environmental.  

PALLADIUM: Bush-it. Your Bushland…Our Passion 

GOLD: School of Life and Environmental Sciences-The University of Sydney, Perilya . 

SILVER: BARRC – Bushland and Rainforest Restoration and Consulting, 

Bushland Restoration Services, Proust Land Services, Australian Bushland Restoration –.

BRONZE: Cumberland Seeds, Naturelinks

OTHER SPONSORS AND DONORS:
Georgina San Roque and the late John Diamond, Jane Lemann, Brush Turkey Enterprises , Janet Fairlie-Cuningham, and various anonymous donors.

ENDURING SPONSOR: Albert Morris Award Committee.

Read More – Links

Bush Regeneration History Essays – Articles outlining the history of the 1930s Albert Morris ecological restoration project in Broken Hill, NSW and his natural regeneration projects in Whyalla, South Australia.