LONE RANGER

When the site of the Forktree Project was purchased in 2019, an audit of the existing trees was undertaken. On the entire 54 hectare property there were a mere 22 pink gums, a short windbreak of a dozen blue gums and sheoaks, a copse of radiata pines and a solitary, 200-year-old melaleuca lanceolata.

It is this melaleuca that somehow captures the essence of the Forktree Project. It stands on its own, exposed and gnarled, a lone survivor against the odds in a wide expanse of otherwise cleared land.

We like its spirit. Hopefully in time it will be the grandfather watching over a slowly maturing ecosystem of saplings, willing them on.