Since the 2021 severe storm, the Wombat State Forest has been subjected to 3 years of unrelenting industrial scale salvage of storm thrown trees from the forest.
The fallen logs should be left on the forest floor to become habitat for small mammals and reptiles, for insects and spiders, for fungi to have a home. They should be protecting and shading the forest floor and keeping the forest damp. As they decay, they will absorb moisture.
Removing these logs is not making the community safer from bushfires, in the long term the forest will be drier.
