• fire history in the Arm Valley
• forest history and influence of Aboriginal and European fire values
• Logging practices on Maggs Mtn.
• forest evolution in a high rainfall area
• ecology of various forest types
• endangered, rare and vulnerable species in the Arm River area
• callidendrous and thamnic rainforest types

Evening meal approx 7:00pm

Evening programme to include:-

• brief outline of the evolution of cool temperate forests
• fire, its influence on, and role in determining, forest types and its use as a management tool in reserves and State forests. (Some Canadian and US research will be highlighted as well.)

• timber harvesting practices (results of conventional and cable logging processes and regeneration techniques.)
• management planning on State Forests
• variation of eucalypt species from valley floor to sub-alpine climate
• brief look at young and old forest environments of the sane type
• carry out a transect study from creek bed to dry ridge at Gad’s Creek
• Lunch in the field.

Drive to Mill Creek and investigate the nature of a 70 year old wet sclerophyll forest at low altitude. Drive to the Borradaile plains to observe the dramatic effects of underlying geology on the nature of the vegetation. Students will also investigate reasons for unsuccessful regeneration of eucalypt forest at high altitude and alternative practices now adopted.
Drive to the Bare Hill plantation to investigate aspects of plantation forestry including:

• biotechnology in plantation forestry
• the role of plantation timber in comparison to the native forest resource; an investigation of some of the issues.
• Evening meal approx 7:30 pm.
• Evening programme to include:-
• the Regional Forest Agreement, (RFA), and some of its implications

the transition process from oldgrowth to regrowth forests and implications for milling, processing and management

Camp clean-up and pack.

Lunch