P005420 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2014-01-14 human Peter Fagg and Christine Moje updated 2019-12-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005420b.htm person La Gerche John AACR2 22 May 1845 18 November 1914 Place of Birth Vigntaine du Sud, Jersey Place of Death Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Forester John La Gerche, born on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, arrived in Melbourne in March 1865. He ran a small sawmill in the Wombat State Forest from 1870-1875. As Crown Lands Bailiff and Forester, he supervised timber cutting and thinning operations in the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest. John La Gerche undertook early trials of establishing Eucalyptus globulus near Creswick, and raised Eucalyptus camaldulendis and Eucalyptus cladocalyx seedlings in the government's Creswick nursery in the late 1890s. 1882 1882 Career event - Crown land Bailiff and Forester, Agriculture Branch of the Departments of Lands and Survey 1899 1899 Career event - Assistant Inspector of Forests, Forests Branch of the Lands Department La Gerche, John, by Peter Fagg

The Study of Australian Eucalypts: Forestry

 La Gerche, John (18450522-19141118)

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 'La Gerche, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology La Gerche, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: A forester's log : the story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest, 1882-1897 Taylor, Angela A forester's log : the story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest, 1882-1897 Carlton South, Vic. Melbourne University Press 1998

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 Resource Section: Creswick People - John La Gerche Creswick People - John La Gerche Business & Tourism Creswick Inc 2009 Creswick: A Living History