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Dingo Creek 2005

Goolengook

Errinundra

Otways

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Dingo Creek 2001
By Tony Hastings 28/3/03

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Dingo Creek from the air

Looking south-west from over coupe 6. Clearfell is Coupe 843/501/10


Aerial photo, circa 1979

from this photo, old-growth and rainforest can be identified.


Phascogale habitat

The cross hairs mark the exact site where a new species was first seen.


BEFORE:

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.


Forest giants in Coupe 10

These trees remain at the coupe boundary, On the felled tree are two people. This 400 year old tree was left as "waste".


The Big Mama Tree

This Messmate is around 600 years old.


AFTER

The exact same location after clearfelling. A GPS was used to find the same location, it was unrecognisable.


Greg's Tree

A 600 year old Cut-tail Ash, which was felled and left as waste.


Greg's Tree

A hollow-bearing habitat tree that should have been protected.


Rainforest logging:

Sassafras trees taken & sold, exposed by clearfelling in a Rainforest Site of National Significance.


Mixed Forest,

rainforest evolution in progress.


Rainforest ecotone

On the east side of coupe 7, there are tall eucalypts, then rainforest trees, tree-ferns and then a creek flat.


Photo montage.

Dingo Creek - illegal logging

The Court case

The Big Mama tree

Rainforest ecotones

Greg's tree

Mixed Forest

Photo gallery

Aerial photos

Before and after logging

Forest giants

Rainforest logging

The Tuft-tailed Phascogale

Logging schedule

Tour Dingo Creek

Logging schedule

The Quest for the
Tuft-tailed Phascogale