A Threatened Icon
Like many other readers of Wild, the high country of mainland Australia and lutruwita/Tasmania is, in all seasons, my much-loved backyard. While I admire the higher mountains of other continents, these ranges feed me in a way that is hard to describe.
Partly, my love affair with the mountains here has been fuelled by the gnarled and twisted snow gum. But lately I have had to accept the fact that, as I get older, the snow gum forests are getting younger. And, like the alpine ash forests that live at lower
