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Waratah in flower in bushland, regenerating from fire in recent years, dominant above slower-growing understory plants Telopea speciosissima is a pyrogenic-flowering species, relying on post-fire flowering followed by production and dispersal of non-dormant seeds to take advantage of favourable growing conditions in the altered environment ...
Forestry Corporation manages environmental conservation, community access, tourism, fire, land management and timber production within the state forests of NSW. [1] Approximately 225,000 hectares (560,000 acres) of NSW State Forests are softwood timber plantations, and just under 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) are hardwood timber plantations. [ 1 ]
The best-known species in this genus is Telopea speciosissima, which has bright red flowers and is the New South Wales (NSW) state emblem. The waratah is a member of the family Proteaceae , flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.
Cumberland State Forest is a wet sclerophyll forest in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Situated on the southern edge of the Hornsby Plateau, the forest is located in the suburb of West Pennant Hills, Sydney and contains 40 hectares of native forest. [3]
As of 26 August 2005, the Australian Government reclassified Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest as a "Critically Endangered Ecological Community", under the Commonwealth's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. [5] The original extent of the forest was 26,516 ha, but now only 1,182 ha (or 4.5% of original extent) remains. [6]
Ringwood Tank State Forest is dominated by white cypress pine. [2] Other plant species present within the forest include grey box and bulloak. [2]At least six species listed under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 have been recorded within the state forest, [2] including squirrel glider, brolga, brown treecreeper, grey-crowned babbler, hooded robin, and varied sittella.
Water could be obtained from the tree roots by boring a hole in the trunk and squeezing the wood. [4] There are also records of the seed pods being turned into a children's rattle or toy. The soft, spongy wood was used for making shields, and the bark as a fibre. The leaves are also used as emergency fodder for drought-affected animal stock.
Lester State Forest is a native forest, located in the South Western Slopes region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 790 ha (2,000-acre) [ 2 ] state forest is located approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) south-west of Coolamon, New South Wales .