THE AFTERMATH OF FIRE: The top photograph was taken in the Mt Thomas State Forest just after the nor’west blaze which destroyed 300 ha of native beech in October, 1980. In the bottom picture, taken this month when scientists from the Forest Research Institute were checking a trial plot, the only visible change is that most of the bark has fallen from the dead trees. Regrowth is negligible, and scientists predict that left to itself the area might not return to forest for 1000 years. The fence in the background was erected to exclude deer from the trial plot.
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Press, 31 December 1982, Page 18
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99THE AFTERMATH OF FIRE: The top photograph was taken in the Mt Thomas State Forest just after the nor’west blaze which destroyed 300 ha of native beech in October, 1980. In the bottom picture, taken this month when scientists from the Forest Research Institute were checking a trial plot, the only visible change is that most of the bark has fallen from the dead trees. Regrowth is negligible, and scientists predict that left to itself the area might not return to forest for 1000 years. The fence in the background was erected to exclude deer from the trial plot. Press, 31 December 1982, Page 18
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