When one thinks of hoop pine the following spring immediately to mind: Monarch of the Forest, lofty, majestic. This species (Araucaria cunninghamii) is self-evident on the range-tops of coastal and sub-coastal Queensland and New south Wales, even reaching PNG. How did this tree of geological times, so susceptible to fire, survive into the modern era […]
Politics and Forestry in Queensland
Such was the rate and extent of land clearing in the late nineteenth century that a group of sawmillers became concerned that their resource would quickly dry up and lobbied the Queensland government to set aside land for the production of timber into the future. Thus, in 1907, the Forestry Act was proclaimed and started […]
