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Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire Tower Commission Design

This is most likely the fire tower on a hill south of Tanjil Bren.

A 95HP tractor with angle-dozer road-making at Kiewa. Initial stage. SEC unit.

A Cletrac Tractor with a small logging arch hauling log on snig track.

Road making and fire-break building

Dennis Pump purchased in the late 1940s from the United Kingdom, where they were used during World War 2.

Erosion after forest fire

Toorongo. Mundic Creek, 1939. Salvage felling of fire killed Mountain Ash.

Dumping No 3 winch Richards and Buzza 1942. East Tanjil Reserve

Forest denudation

Graph relating temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, rel. moisture content, % of hazard stick during month of March, 1949. Erica

Virgin Forest

Mountain Ash forest

Bush regeneration after fire

Peat Bog on Fire, Western District

Forests Commission 95HP Cletrac with angledozer constructing a fire line in fire-killed ash, East Tanjil

Caterpillar D7 85HP crawler tractor with tree dozer attachment. Cable-operated. First of its kind in the Commonwealth. Weight 16 ton. Would build on the average 2 mile of track 10' wide per day. Owned by Forests Commission

Fire equipment truck

Spray and hose of Johnson Tremblay pump, Bright