South Australia

Miners indiscriminately cleared large areas of forest. Painting by Edward Roper –

gold diggings Ararat 1854. The creation of the Victorian School of Forestry (VSF) in 1910, was one of the many recommendations of a royal Commission held between 1897 and 1901 into forest degradation. Source Wikipedia

Macedon nursery potted seedlings in open beds protected

by Hedges. Creswick Campus Historical Collection.

1872 the first Victorian State nursery established at Macedon to assist in the replanting of degraded mined area.

https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/cchc/items/show/5478.

The Creswick Nursery was established by

John La Gerche in 1897 to grow plants to rehabilitate degraded mining areas. Source State Library of Victoria collection.

South Australia: The first plantations were established in 1876. ‘Within thirty years of first settlement in 1836, people both within and outside government began to express concern at the rate at which the limited native forest resource was being used up and the apparent lack of any planning for future supplies of timber. G.W. Goyder (Surveyor General) and F. E. Krichauff (a member of the House of Assembly) pooled their influence to have the Government legislate to preserve the remaining forest cover, to southeast).