Mifsud, Brett M.   (c.1969 - )

Born about 1969.

Music Teacher, Outdoor Ed teacher, musician, with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) since 1991.

Brett travels around Victoria and Tasmania documenting, recording, photographing and climbing tall trees.

He has published both technical papers and popular articles, and is oft quoted as the Australian expert on tall trees.

Patrick Witton wrote:

"Mifsud knew this region well – any spare moment he would head there [80 km E of Melbourne] in his late-model Subaru, which was scattered with GPS devices, rangefinders, tape measures and a dog-eared spiral-bound notebook thick with scribbles. His main aim on such excursions was to find, and register, large specimens of Eucalyptus regnans . . . . Over the years Mifsud had found numerous massive mountain ash trees, and by registering their presence with VicForests he affected what loggers could and could not touch in the vicinity. His research contributed to VicForests' development of a protection plan, which excludes core areas of large trees from harvest and regeneration burns."

Source: Extracted from:
Witton, P. (1917) 'The tallest tree' The Monthly 1 May 2017.
LinkedIn: Brett Mifsud
Portrait Photo: ABC News website, screen-grab, 2024