From black ash to green shoots: hope for an adorable night animal

Steve Evans
Updated January 13 2021 - 9:10am, first published 4:30am
Dr Karen Ford at home in Forbes Creek where the greenery is returning. Picture: Matt Loxton
Dr Karen Ford at home in Forbes Creek where the greenery is returning. Picture: Matt Loxton

When the fires swept over Karen Ford's property at Forbes Creek just over a year ago, the landscape couldn't have looked blacker or bleaker.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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