Logging on Mumbulla mountain

Guboo Ted Thomas (Guboo means your good friend)

May 21, 2008: Bega Valley Shire Council recognises the people who were involved in getting logging on Mumbulla Mountain stopped nearly 30 years ago.

No-one was more instrumental in ensuring this significant site was preserved for future generations than the late Guboo Ted Thomas.

In 1978, when intensive logging of Mumbulla Mountain threatened sacred places, through what was then the Yuin Tribal Council, he was able to influence the State government to undertake an anthropological and archaeological study of the place.

An agreement was then reached with Ted Thomas, Jack Campbell, Percy Mumbler the National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW Forestry.

The Premier of NSW at that time, Neville Wran, ordered that logging should cease and be redirected elsewhere.

The story of how the logging was stopped and the role that Guboo Ted Thomas and others played can be read in the 1979 NPWS report written by Brian Egloff of the University of Canberra, available from the NPWS, and "Mumbulla Spiritual Contact" available in the reference section of the Bega Valley Shire Library.