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• Title: Public Response to Plantation Forestry on Farms in South-Western Victoria (Report)
• Author : Australian Forestry
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 188 KB

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Introduction There has been rapid change in land use across south-western Victoria over the past decade (Petheram et al. 2000). The area of land under wool production has fallen and sheep numbers have declined from 10 to 8 million from 1990 to 2000. The greatest expansion has been in crop growing (from 62 000 ha in 1990 to 205 000 ha in 2000), much of this occurring in the northern part of the region. Dairying has expanded in the south of the region, dairy cow numbers increasing from 307 000 to 424 000 over a ten-year period. Timber plantations have also increased. Before 1990, plantations comprised mainly pines (Pinus radiata) planted during the 1960s and 1970s. In the past decade around 40 000 ha of Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus subsp. globulus) plantations have been established on farmland, and these are generally concentrated in higher rainfall (650 mm [y.sup.-1]) areas in the south-west of the region, within 150 km of Portland.

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