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Meander your way through enchanting cool temperate rainforest to discover the majestic Ada Tree, a Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) towering 76 metres high and 15 metres in girth estimated to be around 400 years old. Mountain Ash are the largest flowering trees on earth, this individual is a relic of the past and stands as a living time capsule.
More about WarburtonEasy. Compacted but uneven surface at times
(1.5 hours)
Ada, Victoria, 3833, Australia.
The Central Highlands of Victoria have been logged for more than 150 years, with the majority of timber extracted going into making paper or cardboard boxes. As a result of past overcutting and recurrent wildfires, there is now very little forest that if logged will produce sawn timber. Only poor-quality trees that will be chipped for paper making are left. The bottom line is that Victoria will be financially better off without logging in Mountain Ash and Alpine Ash forests; some estimates suggest that the state would be ahead by between $110 million and $190 million annually if logging stopped today. This problem needs to be recognised.
Share your voice to preserve these regions for generations to come. Contact your local MPs and encourage them to support the creation of the Great Forest National Park.
We propose adding 355,000 hectares of protected forests to the Central Highlands of Victoria to form the Great Forest National Park
Currently there is only 170,000 hectares of parks and protected areas in the Central Highlands of Victoria