40 year old trees around an old stump show the unusual sprouting ability of the Redwood. America.
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Gunn Lantern Slide Maker, 9 Collins Place, Melbourne
Distant view of Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus Regnans) and Messmate (Eucalyptus Obliqua) regeneration 6 years old. Mount Disappointment.
Improved Red Ironbark Eucalyptus sideroxylon stand.
Selected reshoots to form new crop Eucalyptus hemiphloia stumps of trees felled in May 1922.
Correct position of the Herty cup and gutters. USA.
Correct position of the Herty cup and gutters. USA. This shows the condition of the face at the end of the 1st season after about 35 chippings.
Collecting sap from trees in a plantation
Gunn's Slide, 210 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, cent. 2736
Wind erosion Timberoo. Showing the effects of wind swirling around posts at Timberoo Reserve. Caused by the action of wind on the surrounding fallowed paddocks.
Fire lines. Forest Commission's D.Y. Crawler tractor with tree dozer.
Fire lines. Forest Commission's D.Y. Crawler tractor with tree dozer. This unit clears trails of all vegetation knocking over trees of up to 2' diameter. The trail is first cleared by the machine which returns along it's route and scoops the grass & surface soil to either side making a cleared fire trail.
95. H.P. Cletrac with angledozer, roadmaking at Kiewa. Later stage S.E.C. unit.
Stacking and sorting. A.1. Toorango Lumberlast No 1. Dump.
Stacking and sorting. A.1. Toorango Lumberlast No 1. Dump. Dumping by Washington steam winch, hauling to spar tree 3,000,000 super ft. in dump. Individual logs up to 10,000 super ft. of Eucalyptus Regnans, Elevation 3400'.
Caterpillar Diesel R.D 7. with Le Tourneau angle-dozer widening a road near Salena Canada.
Erosion along Horse Creek Developed within 30-40 years.
A dramatic close-up of water at work. It is the Salt River, in slight flood stage, cutting out extensive silt deposits in the upper part of the Roosevelt Reservoir basin and carrying the mud down nearer the dam.
How a denuded mountain looks immediately after terracing and reforestation.
How a denuded mountain looks immediately after terracing and reforestation. This is the slope of Mt. Cavallaro where the work of soil stabilization cost 20,000 pounds an acre, exclusive of reforestation over 82,000 acres of these slopes denuded years ago by lumber cutting & excessive grazing have been thus stabilized note service road ascending the mountain side.
Eucalyptus oleosa Small Mallee type Mildura
Map of Victoria showing regional sub divisions for tree planting
Eucalyptus Regnans. Tree being felled (duplicate?)