Stony Creek – coupe 735-520-0009 (Tambo)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Lisa Roberts
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae
Locations centred entirely within structurally dense forested habitats.
A narrow funnel of old forest to hunt in leads up the gully to Stony Creek Rd
The bright moon is no help and neither are they, preying overhead with intent
to devour a life, a multiplicity, a country: 30ha of unlogged forest across the road
The masked owl perched on a low branch listens into the approaching forest-void
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.
