What is the Box-Ironbark Ecological Management Strategy?
The Ecological Management Strategy is an approach being developed in the national parks and reserve system to focus on the techniques and logistics that might best be used to achieve a Box-Ironbark forests and woodland ecosystem that more closely resembles the pre-European forests. Scientific research and scientific methods will be used to develop a strategy that embraces a realistic vision of an ‘ecologically healthy’ Box-Ironbark forest/woodland and how it can be achieved. This science-based approach will be applied to National Parks, State Parks, Regional Parks, Conservation Reserves and the National Heritage Park. The approach will be ecosystem-wide and will involve appropriate investigation, research and trialing of techniques to achieve ecological objectives. Initially an Ecological Thinning trial will be undertaken in selected parks and reserves and some firewood may be available from this process. For State Forests in the Box-Ironbark area, a silvicultural thinnings program wil
