RECENT PLANTATION PHOTOS
College 1: Inside Cool Temperate Rainforest. College Creek. Strzelecki
Ranges.
College 10: Bulldozed silver wattle pushed into Myrtle Beech Gully in
College Creek, increasing the incidence of Myrtle Wilt. Beech tree infected.
Stage 1 Myrtle Wilt.
College 11: Roadside soil erosion of NE track going directly into College
Creek rainforest gully.
College 12: Track 11, Barring Track. College Creek. November 97. Note
poor quality of road in late Spring.
College 13: FFG listed Slender Tree Terns. Tributary 1: College Creek.
April 01.
College 14: Tmesipteris Elongata (Slender Fork Fern). Tributary 3 College
Creek. April 01. FFG listed, nationally significant and rare in Victoria
and Australia. College Creek is the stronghold for this species in Victoria.
College 15: August 1996. Bulldozed logging track extremely close to closed
Myrtle Beech canopy. College Creek.
College 16: March 1997. One of six ‘erosion channels’ bladed
by bulldozer directly into College Creek.
College 2: Old growth Myrtle Beech inside College Creek - Tributary 3.
College 3: Slender Tree Ferns. Tributary 3 - College Creek.
College 4: Slender Tree Ferns. Tributary 1 - College Creek.
College 5: College Creek - March 98. Stage 3 of Myrtle Wilt. A disease
which will infect the entire stand of Beech over a relatively short time.
College 6: Feb 97. 4 dead Myrtle Beech, with another 3 trees dieing. Track
12 College Creek.
College 7: 1996. College Creek. Dying Myrtle Beech due to widening of
track 12 by logging contractor who wounded this tree with a bulldozed
silver wattle. Beech tree was dead by the end of 1997.
College 8: College Creek 1998. Stage 2 Myrtle Wilt.
College 9: College Creek culvert washout. Track 12.
