Several years ago a Tasmanian doctor purchased a magical area of forest. The property is near Mt Field National Park and adjacent to the Mount Bethune Conservation Area. With a view to conserving the area he managed it to look after its flora and fauna. In 2005 he made the very generous offer of giving the land to the TLC as a permanent TLC reserve.

A photo of a Silver Peppermint Trunk The majority of the 43 ha property comprises beautiful dry inland Silver peppermint (Eucalyptus tenuiramis) forest. The streaky grey bark and the silver-grey foliage of the new 'Silver Peppermint Reserve' has a delicate beauty. The dry, sparse and rocky understorey is in amazingly good condition.

As well as its aesthetic quality, Silver peppermint forest is an important type of forest to conserve. Across Tasmania, it has been extensively cleared to create grazing land and there is very little of it's original extent reserved in protected areas.