Mt Alfred – coupe 735-502-0004 (Tambo)
Text by Louise Crisp | photograph by Lisa Roberts
Mt Alfred – Nuggur-yowatie
Coupe city my friend says – there’s not much forest left standing
between the coupes – VicForests strip mining since the seventies
I walk into a tree a hollow a human-sized hollow knowing it’s the last
old tree for 200 years: from colony to coupe the past encapsulates the present
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.
