A broken landscape –  impacts of logging in the Wingan Inlet area

The bush northwest of Wingan Inlet in Croajingolong National Park now consists mostly of spindly Silvertop Ash (E. sieberi) stems, some dead, others struggling to recover from the massive 2019-20 fire.  These areas were logged for hardwood in the 1970s using a clear-fell technique that involved falling the majority of trees and leaving a few…