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

Fire Tower Commission Design

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Fire damage after the 1939 fires

Water sprays in action Block 10. West Tanjil. Forests Commission Dump (Richards & Buzza)

Eucalyptus Regnans. Falling a tree.

Eucalyptus Regnans. Tree being felled (duplicate?)

Mountain Ash trees Marysville

Map of Victoria showing regional sub divisions for tree planting

Map of Australia showing vegetation

Eucalyptus oleosa Small Mallee type Mildura

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…

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.

Erosion along Horse Creek Developed within 30-40 years.

Caterpillar Diesel R.D 7. with Le Tourneau angle-dozer widening a road near Salena Canada.

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'.

95. H.P. Cletrac with angledozer, roadmaking at Kiewa. Later stage S.E.C. unit.

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 &…