They are called river red gums because they grow along rivers and their wood when freshly exposed is a bright red; almost blood-coloured. River red gums have been used by Indigenous people for ...

A farm worker has been left $5000 out of pocket in fines after surveillance from environment officers busted him chopping up river red gum on public land to sell for profit ...

A river red gum may grow for anywhere between 400 and 1,000 years before it falls. And as it decomposes over centuries it becomes a home for new life. Murray cod lay their eggs in drowned red gums.

Sometimes, the combined waters of both rivers back up along the Murray, travelling for about 80 kilometres to a narrow section of the river called the Barmah Choke, and from there it spills out ...

Most came from NSW Murray River red gum. Ms McGinnes said V/Line hoped to upgrade all passenger tracks to concrete by 2015 but the cost of a concrete sleeper around $120 was double that of wood.

Government regulators are investigating after illegal firewood collectors destroyed a 300-year-old river red gum in a state forest in the Grampians.

The River Red Gum was one of two finalists we chose for the ABC Catalyst special, and sits very comfortably alongside that show’s winner, the mighty Mountain Ash. It’s the perfect Australian tree.

ANCIENT RED GUM FORESTS in the Riverina region of New South Wales will be protected under State government legislation from July. NSW Premier Kristina Keneally announced on Wednesday that the deal to ...

Metro agrees to save river red gum, peppercorn trees in Flemington. A huge community fight to save trees surrounding Newmarket Station has paid off, with Metro promising to work around a century ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Along the banks of the Murray River, the red gums are dying from thirst and salty land. Now, say conservationists, it is time to ...

Douglas Reitano guilty of felling rare red gum trees for firewood. His Facebook ad said his son wanted to sell some firewood to “purchase a couple of guns”.