the past is a different country...

This picture was taken in the forests east of where I live in the early 1980s. I am the one on the right with a beanie and my hands in my pockets. The tree stump is the remains of E. regnans cut many years ago. The axeman's steps are very clear in this photograph, he cut them, pushed a plank into the highest, stood on it and cut the tree down. The timber would have been used for building, flooring or fencing. This is a relatively young stump. The tallest tree ever measured on the ground in these forests was 425 feet long, and the top was said to have been damaged by lightning. Regnans needs fire to regenerate, but is not epicormic, unlike many other eucalypts.