Abstract:
The battle being fought over logging in areas of State Forest in Victoria’s Central Highlands has sparked the attention of the public and media for over a year now. The area in question, one hour from Melbourne near Toolangi, is an important part of Melbourne’s Upper Goulburn water catchment, and includes some of Victoria’s most pristine forest areas, home to one of Australia’s endangered faunal emblems, the Leadbeater’s Possum. Mountain Ash, or Eucalyptus regnan, a species of eucalyptus tree endemic to the region, is known for producing the tallest trees on the planet. To many this comes as a surprise, as no towering Mountain Ash remain at their original magnificent heights, having been destroyed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century by pioneering foresters.
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