1% Regnans - Why Traditional Cache
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This is a small series providing information on the plight of the Mountain Ash tree - Eucalyptus regnans, of which their is only 1% trees left that where alive in 1900.
This stump tells the storey of why. This was once a large tree, before it was cut down. The stump also has burn marks. In earlier times logging operations where primarily for sawn timber, now and over the last 2 decades logging has primarily been to make toilet and photocopy paper from a company that constantly bombards you with their adverts.
Fire will kill mountain ash trees if intense enough, but as it is a wet forest tree intense fires are infrequent. The black Saturday killed a large proportion of the ash trees in the Wallaby Creek and oshanneshy catchments. These were considered the best examples of old growth ash forests in Victoria.
Even with only 1% old ash trees left we are still logging them.
Compare the size of this stump with the living trees around here
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