Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
This site had a complex of vegetation types including a rare rainforest type growing on an accumulated bank of nutrients in the lee of sand dunes. Sand mining was a hot conservation issue in the 1960s and issues such as Myall Lakes and Pottsville-Fingal mining in New South Wales and Stradbroke Island, Moreton Island, Cooloola and Fraser Island sand mining triggered public awareness of conservation and forced governments to insist on rehabilitation of vegetation after mining. This also led to preservation of much of Cooloola and Fraser Island and later Moreton Island as national parks. But not before extensive damage was done to the natural environment, initially by mining and later through real estate development.
Image No. 4-60Land Use -- New South Wales -- North East
Sand mining for rutile on Pottsville Road
Pottsville, between Kingscliff and Brunswick Heads, New South Wales
1960s
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Coastal dune vegetation including littoral rainforest.
