July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Dingo Creek Road/Dingo Creek Catchment. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve. All of the logged land has to be replanted and will go back to State control once regeneration success is approved.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges/Franklin River catchment: Extraction Track. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve. The heaviest logging within the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve will take place between 2009-17.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges/Franklin River Catchment. Extraction Track. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges/Dingo Creek catchment - Dingo Creek Road. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges/Dingo Creek catchment - Dingo Creek Road. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges/Franklin River Catchment. Extraction Track. Recent clearfelling of 30 year old Mt Ash in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Fuel Reduction Burn. For the first time Hancock is now undertaking burning off inside their custodial land, as a supposed means to reduce bushfire risk in their plantations. This logic is questionable and one has to wonder what pressure has been applied for Hancock to undertake such activities.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Fuel Reduction Burn in a site of High Conservation Significance. Hancock now don't log their custodial land, they burn it instead..
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Fuel Reduction Burn in a koala hotspot area.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Fuel Reduction Burn. Custodial land lost due to burn offs. There is considerable evidence that such burns increase fire risk.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Non Burned Area.
July 2017: Central Gippsland Laceys Block Fuel Reduction Burn, another area targeted for burning in Hancock Custodial land. Canopies were scorched during this burn. Impact on wildlife? April 5 2017 Forest Fire Management Victoria and the CFA will carry out the follow burns today, weather conditions permitting: Briagolong ... Holey Plain – Long Ridge: A 222ha fuel reduction burn, 7km south-east of Rosedale.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Hatchery Road <10 year old Regeneration inside Cores and Links Reserve
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Macks Creek Warm Temperate Rainforest replanting, the most endangered of all Ecological Vegetation Classes in the Strzeleckis.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Macks Creek. Regenerating Warm Temperate Rainforest near Roberts Road.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Macks Creek - Warm Temperate Rainforest
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Gunyah Gunyah Cool Temperate Rainforest
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Toora Gunyah Road: Myrtle Wilt inside Cool Temperate Rainfores
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Suttons Road Morwell River catchment. Nice stand of native forest inside Morwell River Catchment.
July 2017: Strzelecki Ranges Gunyah Gunyah. Looking at what the Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve will look like in 2117 (hopefully)!
July 2017 Mt Macedon Plantations Canning Park Road in Railway Plantion.
2017: Macedon Plantation 100ha plantation clearfell, 5 km upstream from Rosslynne Reservoir - Drinking Water for Gisborne, Sunbury and Diggers Rest. Pellitised Hexazinone likely to be used at 4kg/ha about 1-3 years post logging. Will some of the Hexazinone end up in the reservoir?