Victoria’s mountain ash forests naturally thin their trees. So why do it with machines?
- Written by Elle Bowd, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
David Clode/Unsplash, CC BY-NDThere has been much global discussion about the best ways to manage Earth’s forests in an era of climate change and more frequent bushfires.
Some foresters and forest managers support and recommend large-scale industrialthinning of forests, where a proportion of the trees are removed (thinned) with machines to...





