[1] The scheme, which began in the early 1930s, ran quietly and successfully for nearly 60 years and is believed to have been the largest and most sustained reforestation project of its type in Australia.

It's also rumoured the inmates brewed moonshine in the nearby bush..[4] Guards were, at times, not above joining prisoners in their illicit meals.

The nursery was run separately by the Forests Commission, and at it height in the mid-1970s produced in excess of one million seedlings each year.

[5] The Morwell River Prison closed in 1997 and the remaining inmates transferred to a newly built Fulham Correctional Centre near Sale.

The prison complex was then used briefly, and unsuccessfully, as a school adventure camp but the site deteriorated quickly and became overgrown with blackberries and scrub, so that by 2006 only a few dilapidated buildings and bare concrete slabs remained visible.