.... Prescriptions advised by specialists were generally incorporated into timber harvesting plans. However, post-harvest assessment of 10 operation areas (nine on private and one on State forest) containing high or medium quality habitat suggested that implementation of prescriptions on the ground was not effective...

... sclerophyll habitats were under-represented in National Parks in SEQ prior to the Forest Agreement (at 9% of pre-European extent) and remain so relative to other habitat types (at 20% of pre-European extent). Timber harvesting had traditionally been practised using the relatively conservative single-tree...

... of minimal acceptable standards and tolerance limits for environmental damage caused by timber harvesting, to prevent the conversion of natural forests to tree farms by intensification of harvesting practice. With inclusion of these modifications, forest policy in Victoria will have much to offer...

..., blackbutt dominated regrowth native forests with a low tree species diversity. Trees of 40-80 cm dbh and stands with more than three koala food tree species per survey plot (50 by 50 m) were preferred. Historical timber harvesting practices involving low intensity harvesting of large diameter stems were...

... and unmerchantable trees on harvested stands. These strategies reduce the risk to hollow-dependent fauna from timber harvesting. ...

... forests is uncertain. Flexible management strategies are required to curb the trend towards fragmentation and to ensure the continued viability of forest age-classes that are many times older than those planned for under the proposed timber harvesting rotation periods. A proposed scheme of Regional...

... spatial variations in habitat. Timber harvesting had no significant impacts on total invertebrate abundance and richness. Only 5 of the 35 taxa studied, Blattodea, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and Orthoptera, were significantly affected, with Blattodea being the most severely affected. At the level...