Ten years ago, Hydro Tasmania environmental scientist Carolyn Maxwell stood on the bank of a lagoon in Tasmania's central highlands looking over an expanse of mud, hoping a plan to rehabilitate an unusual wetland would work.
The view from that bank is very different today — reeds abound in the lagoon, tiny purple "fairies aprons" grow in the moist soil at the edges, and other native vegetation has returned. A heron wades in the shallow water, and the sounds of frogs and insects fill the air.
