Myrtle Wilt At Ciancio
The Ciancio creek coupe was partly clearfell logged in April 2000. During this logging operation the Department of Natural Resource and Environment failed to put a 40 metre buffer around the cool temperate rainforest, as stipulated under the Code of Forest Practices.
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(Dark rainforest in background)
The lack of an appropriate buffer exposes rainforest to wind and increased
sunlight
Without an appropriate buffer several Myrtle Beech trees have been damaged by the April 2000 logging operations at Ciancio creek. Eucalyptus trees and blackwood trees have fallen against myrtle beech trees creating open wounds that will act as infection points to raise the level of a myrtle wilt in surrounding rainforest.
Clearfell logging practices authorised by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment are increasing the wounding rate of myrtle beech trees and artificially elevating the levels of Myrtle Wilt.
Top: Myrtle beech trees broken by clearfell logging
operations at Ciancio in April 2000.
Above: Broken limb on Myrtle Beech at the edge of logged area. It may
take two years for this tree to die after infection.
Wind from the clearfell logged area has blown trees onto this myrtle beech, creating open wounds for myrtle wilt to infect.
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