Protecting our living legacies - A guide to protecting large old trees on public land

increased the collapse probability of felling of large numbers of significant hollow-bearing trees’.37 The study also Communications with the OCR in trees, because of their perceived risk to found that the collapse rate of hollow- February 2023, about the regulation workers and the public. [...] the recovery of Ash species in fire-land in Victoria, includes standards and disturbance and fire, and an ability to national parks and other protected logging operations and exposure make affected and logged areas may lead Post-logging operations are also of assess and calculate risks based on the areas. [...] FFMV ignored concerns of locals and It also contains stands of Black She-oak proceeded with burning operation, and (Allocasuarina littoralis), the key food source burning lead to loss and damage to large for the Glossy Black Cockatoo which lost and old trees, protection zones failed 80 per cent of its habitat in the 2019-20 because of dryness of fuels leading to the bushfires. [...] In the meantime, the tool age and significance does not consider of protection zone required to help 63 despite acknowledging that large trees than 15 per cent basal area of trees in Victorian Supreme Court, the Flora and is currently being used by VicForests and the range of species, conditions and local maintain the tree's viability and stability. [...] Fauna Research Collective challenged DEECA, and mapped and unmapped ecological communities in which trees Scientists who work in the Victorian machinery used in close proximity and by The category has been broadened to the legality of DELWP’s new old areas of old growth forest continue to be grow, and their significance to a region.