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

These principles are relevant to the Code of Practice for Timber Production and its associated procedures across public and private land, planning and acknowledgement within the Joint Fuel Management Programs (JFMP), Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public Land (2012) and Strategic Bushfire Management Plans and Burn Plans, and any other policies leading to a decline of large old trees. [...] Jordan Crook 12 The importance of large and old trees V N P A P R O T E C T I N G O U R L I V I N G L E G A C I E S 2 0 2 4 The importance of large and old trees Around the world, large old trees hold of their lifecycle.31 These trees provide Growing conditions can also produce a special place in human culture and more flowers for pollinators, fruit stunted growth in older trees. [...] 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. [...] THREATS FFMV ignored concerns of locals and proceeded with burning operation, and burning lead to loss and damage to large and old trees, protection zones failed because of dryness of fuels leading to the loss of many large and old trees. [...] Multiplying Statement recommended that no buffer The use of DBH as a determinant of tree the DBH by 12 ascertains the size was required to protect large trees, age and significance does not consider of protection zone required to help despite acknowledging that large trees the range of species, conditions and local maintain the tree's viability and stability.