Wiradjuri Elder Rose Whybrow came to Albury as a child almost 30 years ago.

The Albury Conservation Company was established to help protect and enhance the natural environment of Thurgoona.

Ranger Dave Pearce has managed the Woomaragama National Park since it was first gazetted in 2001, and he loves it!

Allan Scammell was a Ranger with the Pastures Protection Board for 33 years, with one of his tasks being the management of the travelling stock reserves in NSW.

As the Operations Service Coordinator for the NSW Rural Fire Service in the region, Inspector Marg Wehner has a wealth of knowledge about fire in this landscape.

Cloning Eucalypt species is no easy task. Arborist Leah Warburton takes us on the journey of cloning the Hovell tree.

Jan and Annelies Willink purchased a bare farm block on the edge of the Hume Weir in the 1970’s, and began their work of bringing back the trees.

When Ron McLachlan’s father returned from the war in the 1940’s, housing was in short supply around Albury.

Woomargama National Park protects some of the highly diverse forest and woodland communities forming an almost continuous belt of vegetation between south-east NSW and northern Victoria.

Jan and Neville Lubke have a long family history in this area, and have seen the environment change dramatically as the land is further and further divided.

St Johns Orphanage has been a part of the regional community since 1892, with it’s popular ‘Band Sunday’ fundraiser well covered in the local news for decades.

Reaching the Hume River on 16 November 1824, both Hume and Hovell carved their names on tree trunks near the northern bank of the river. Hume’s tree was later destroyed, but Captain Hovell’s tree remains to this day.

Work started on the Hume Dam in 1919 just as the Burrinjuck and Eildon dams were being finished.

Mungabareena RSL Settlement was opened in September 1946 to alleviate a severe local housing shortage for soldiers returned from the war. About 40 families lived there from 1946 to 1958.

Hume and Hovell’s expedition from Yass to Port Phillip in 1824 was accomplished by eight men; The principals Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, and six assigned convicts. The relationship between Hume and Hovell was not always harmonious…

The monument to Hamilton Hume – now located in the Albury Botanic Gardens – was first built on the banks of the Murray River.

The Mitchell family association with this area began in 1842 when matriarch Elizabeth Mitchell moved with her young family to take up the Mungabareena Run.

The Esler family have farmed in the Table Top area for three generations. Joe Esler farms a portion of the original family property on the eastern side of Budginigi, and is currently revegetating ‘Little Budginigi’.

The Hume and Hovell Walking Track is in Wiradjuri Country, and one of the areas of special significance to Wiradjuri people, and people of other Aboriginal nations, is the gathering place of Mungabareena.

White settlement began in the Border District in 1835, and the small Bowna Station was formed between Table Top and Cumberoona stations.