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Conservation, timber and perceived values at Mt Field, Tasmania.

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posted on 2023-05-27, 23:43 authored by Kiernan, K
Mt Field is a small mountain plateau the highest point of which, Mt Field West (1434 mettes), overlooks a production forest in the Florentine Valley that today isolates it from the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. While biodiversity has become the driving force in contemporary namre conservation, it was the scenic values of a landform, Russell Falls, now a Tasmanian tourism icon, that first ttiggered conservation initiatives in this part of Tasmania.

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Publication title

Australia's Ever-changing Forests V

Series

Australia's Ever-changing Forests

Volume

V

Pagination

209-228

ISBN

086740 5309

Publisher

Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

Canberra, Australia

Rights statement

Copyright Copyright 2002 CRES - Proceedings of the fifth National Conference on Australian Forest History.

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