After walking deep into Kuark’s rich old growth forests, Ed shares their amazing wonders, their rare plants and animals and why they should never be logged.
Old Growth does not exclude the young recruitment trees – as any healthy community would.
A fallen giant, after hundreds of years of hosting gliders and owls, now hosts moss and fungi.
The fern-strewn hillslope. Tree ferns create a micro-climate under the forests canopy, keeping the soil cool and damp.
The misty damp weather made the green colours super vivid and fresh.
Oh strewth – another Bertha!
The ground ‘litter’ that the government tells us must be incinerated in their burns, if kept damp and cool is quickly digested by the forest ecosystem – Lyrebirds and bandicoots dig and scratch, fungi digests, moth larvae eat the dry euc leaves, termites and ants work their magic…
Sadly nearer the road, there was evidence of past logging where giant trees were easily felled and loaded.
And lastly – what could become of these magical and ancient forests unless the citizen scientists and GECO can find rare species and EEG can have VicForests in the Supreme Court!
