The Australian forest and environmental history communities have lost one of their pioneering figures: the eminent forester and historian John Dargavel. who died in July 2024. Dargavel was a long-standing member of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, which published this tribute to him.
In the April 2021 issue of Australian Garden History, Max Bourke, AO, reviewed the 2020 publication edited by John Dargavel and Ben Wilkie, Restoring forests in times of contagions, Papers to celebrate John Evelyn on the occasion of his 400th birthday, published by the Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network: AGHSVol32_4Bookshelf.pdf