Memory of Trees by Viki Cramer

Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks, by the coast and in the bush, these are the trees that inhabit our familiar landscapes and national psyche. Yet the resilience of our eucalypt ecosystems is being tested by logging and land clearing, disease and drought, fire and climate change. In many places they are a faded remnant of those known by past generations. How important is the memory of these trees?

In search of answers, Viki Cramer takes us on a journey through the richest botanical corner of the continent, exploring forests of rugged jarrah and majestic karri, woodlands of enduring salmon gum and burnished-bark gimlet. Spending time with the people caring for these precious places, she interrogates the decisions of the past, takes a measure of the present and glimpses hope for the landscapes of tomorrow.

The Memory of Trees will make you look anew at the trees and environments that sustain us and show the many ways that, together, we can ensure their future.

About the Author: Viki Cramer is a writer and ecologist who lives on Noongar Country in the south-west of Western Australia, among some of the most extraordinary and diverse plant life on the planet. She has lived and worked in the mulga lands, brigalow belt, eucalypt woodlands and subtropical rainforests of Queensland, the monsoon vine forests of the Northern Territory, and the eucalypt forests and woodlands of Western Australia. In 2021 she was awarded a Dahl Fellowship from Eucalypt Australia.

The Memory of Trees: The future of eucalypts and our home among them by Viki Cramer ISBN 9781760762360