We revisited a forest experiment that lay forgotten for 30 years. What we found was astounding

Centre for Forest Tree Technology What’s the best way to manage a forest? Australians have argued about this for decades. The debate is often framed as binary: do we protect forests entirely, or harvest trees to support local economies and communities? The reality is more interesting, as our new research on a long-forgotten experiment in Victoria’s mountain ash forests reveals. Since the 1970s, scientists and the public have questioned the use of clearfell logging – where all trees in a block…