An oral and natural history of the Forrestdale Lake area, largely based on interviews conducted in 1999 by Cath Drake at the instigation of the Friends of Forrestdale. The interviewees recalled the way the area used to be and how
they grew up there, describing the community and the landscape and telling of the changes to the ecology of the Forrestdale Lake area. As well as maps and archival photographs, the text is interspersed with illustrations of the area's fauna and flora by local artist Bryony Fremlin.
This document is part of a Traditional Ecological Knowledge project of Forrestdale Lake. This document aims to provide knowledge from Noongar Elders about traditional understanding and use of plants endemic to Forrestdale Lake,
and to provide Noongar language translations where possible. This document also highlights the importance of wetlands in Perth and why they are so significant to the Noongar community.
