... or informal conservation reserves. State Forests which comprise 1.55 million hectares or 30% of the public estate within the coastal IFOA regions in New South Wales are managed for a variety of reasons including timber production, recreation, and conservation. While commonly associated with timber harvesting...

... also explore patterns between burn extent or severity, and underlying landscape characteristics. Over seven months, approximately 10 million hectares (ha) of native vegetation burned. Of these burned landscapes, ~3.2 million ha (41%) were within the Australian protected area estate (n = 815...

... on this already highly disturbed forest and enhance the possible persistence of species in this ecosystem. Several key strategies are required to do this. First, there is a need to significantly expand the extent of old growth within the Mountain Ash forest estate. This is because fire severity is diminished...

.... It is listed as an important bird area by BirdLife Australia and BirdLife International, and is a significant part of the region's conservation estate. Half of Australia's cockatoo species occur on the property, including the endangered Carnaby's Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris . The Major Mitchell's...

... in management, conservation efforts for the species have gone backwards over the past decade. The key problems we identify include that the Victorian Government has: (1) maintained levels of wood production that are too high given the amount of the forest estate that was burned in 2009, (2) failed to substitute...

... discuss a number of examples of dangers from outside science where conclusions reached by practitioners in other in other disciplines may lead to confusion as to what the science says. In particular I present an extensive discussion of Gammage's Biggest Estate , suggesting that the evidence for universal...

... roads in the Central Highlands of Victoria and the National Estate areas in the south-east forests of New South Wales. The Daintree Read through Queensland's tropical rainforest created an international protest and remains Australia's most notorious road. The original Very Fast Train (VFT) proposal...

... in heritage, the term National Estate was first used in Australia in 1970 by Gough Whitlam (Yencken 1981). Whitlam had picked up the term from President Kennedy but it had originally been coined by Clough Williams Ellis in the 1940s (Edwards 2011) (Williams Ellis, the founder of Portmeirion, was an Australian...

... 2016a). Also recorded at sites in Pilliga NR, Pilliga East SCA, Timmallallie NP, Tandara Estate and vicinity of Coonabarabran. Additional records SEF (Date and Paull 2000) and POF (Date and Paull 2000; Mo 2014). Pseudophryne bibronii (Bibron s Toadlet) (Fig. 9): rare with two records from SEF. Two...

... Spotlighting Spotlight surveys were conducted by walking at the rate of one kilometre per hour with two observers using the equivalent of 50-watt spotlights (P14 LED Lenser handheld torches) (Forestry and National Park Estate Act 1998). This survey was targeting Yellow-bellied Gliders Petaurus australis...

... or occupied. On National Park estate, Schedule 11 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 considered Dingoes as native and offered them protection on those lands by default. Modern domestic dogs were, and still are, specifically prohibited from such lands. Until 1998, the Crown (and hence managers...

... Hghy Nowra Creek Exotic grassland and stands of Cumbungi Exotic grassland and stands of Cumbungi Exotic grassland and stands of Spikerush Spotted Gum - Grey Ironbark, Spikerush Spotted Gum - Grey Ironbark forest SN29 282268 6134271 Wetland Twin Waters Estate Exotic grassland and Cumbungi SN32 280964...

... role early humans played in the are available. And in Chapter 3 I came across another extinction of the megafauna in the late Quaternary, of those amusing anecdotes that Ian has scattered that Bill Gammage s The Biggest Estate on Earth: throughout the book: the case where a crowd of How Aborigines...