“VALUABLE TIMBER-BEARING FORESTS OF ALPINE ASH WERE LARGELY EXCLUDED FROM THE PARK.”
MOUNTAIN FORESTS AT RISK
Victoria’s Alpine National Park only partially protects the forests of the state’s High Country. Ceasing native-forest logging in the areas around the park needs to begin now.
any readers were part of the long and ultimately successful campaign in the 1970s and 80s that saw much of the Victorian high country protected in the Alpine National Park. What younger readers may not know, however, is that many important forests were excluded from the park. In effect, it has an ‘economic’ boundary—that is, the valuable timber-bearing forests of alpine ash were largely excluded
