Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
- Written by Elle Bowd, PhD scholar, Australian National University
David Blair, Author provided
The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest.
As we approach the tenth anniversary of these fires, we are reminded of their legacy by the thousands of tall Mountain ash “skeletons” still standing across the landscape. Most...
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