Before logging:
This forest is the rarest of all types: undisturbed old-growth. The trees are all Errinundra Shining Gums over 400 years old. Until the dozer track was pushed through, there was no evidence of any disturbance here; no fire regrowth, no human impacts.
This forest is known habitat to at least 10 different mammal species, at least 20 different bird species and at least 30 different trees and shrubs. Invertabrates, mosses, lichens, epiphytes and so on would number in the thousands.

After logging:
Along the edge of the coupe in the background, there is regenerated forest from a fire in 1932, plus the bigger older 400 year old remants.
On the night this photo was taken, about a month after logging, More than 10 Yellow-bellied and Greater Gliders were seen along the edge of the forest, looking across the clearfell. They used to have a corridor which they followed through here to Yandowne Creek. Despite a specific request to protect just a 50m wide strip of this corridor, the Department refused. Another two months later, no Gliders at all were found within 200m of this edge.
The coupe is now habitat to 2 mammal species (rabbits and foxes), 3 birds(Kookaburra, Currawng adn Eagle) and 2 trees (Shining gum & Cut-tail Ash). The gliders cannot live in this forest again until hollows develop in the trees, estimated to take over 200 years.