Jones Creek – coupe 535-503-0008 (Dargo High Plains)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Lisa Roberts
Alpine Tree Frog Littoria verreauxii alpina
Whistling frog of the bogs and fens you chased 300 Hereford cattle off Shepherds Plain
Can’t you deflect the loggers from six kilometres of old forest along Little Dargo River?
Louise Crisp is the author of
Yuiquimbiang (Cordite Books 2019) shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2020; and
Glide (Puncher & Wattman 2021). In 2025 Louise was awarded a Marion Orme Page Regional Creative Fellowship by the State Library of Victoria for her project
Bogong to research the archives of high-country ecologist Maisie Fawcett (S. G. M. Carr 1912-1988). “Dry Mountains” is part of the
Bogong project, a work in progress.
https://www.louisecrisp.com/
Lisa Roberts is a photographer who chases bats, blossom, disappearing trees and epic landscapes. She lives and works in Gippsland on unceded Gunnai Kurnai Country. Her current project is The future is a big sky. A survey of old forests scheduled for logging and burning. Her recent exhibition was Flying Foxes and Disappearing Trees at East Gippsland Art Gallery.
