Close up of dead Myrtle Beech lieing in a DNRE logging coupe in the Central Highlands. July 2001.

MelbourneÕs water supply catchment - chipped for Reflex Copy Paper?

July 2001. Logging of Melbourne's water supply. HW Mississippi Creek.

July 2001: Road widening of Big Creek Road. Widened logging roads allow bigger trucks and more logs to be

transported out of an area in a shorter period of time. Victorian taxpayers paid for this.

July 2001. Fire escape from recent buring off, jumped road into Mountain Ash Forest on Big Creek Road.

: July 2001. Big Creek Road widening near Starling Gap. This is actually a creek crossing over a cool temperate rainforest gully possibly the headwaters of the Ada River. Note the obvious soil disturbance from trail bikes.

July 2001. Close up of soil disturbance on creek crossing over cool temperate rainforest

July 2001: View looking south of new road punched through Leadbeaters Possum habitat and cool temperate rainforest just north of Starling Gap on Big Creek Road.

April 2006: Low and behold, almost 5 years after this road was pushed through such important habitat, it still is not in use. This must have cost the State government millions of dollar$. Who is accountable for this waste!

July 2001: Big Creek Road near Starling Gap. Piles of road fill from the new road are being ÔdumpedÕ on the side of the road next to cool temperate rainforest gullies.

July 2001. Obvious signs of Myrtle Wilt developing on Myrtle Beech trees very near to Big Creek Road.

This disease can kill entire stands of Myrtle Beech and effects cool temperate rainforest in the Central Highlands, Otways and Strzeleckis.

Typical ash forest along Big Creek Road. July 2001.

More soil dumped on side of Big Creek Road, next to cool temperate rainforest gully. July 2001.

Infamous new road at Starling Gap - July 2001. Punched through Leadbeater Possum habitat.

This new road will allow more log trucks to cart logs of this area in a quicker time.

Chips from this area find there way into Reflex Copy Paper.