Posted by Gus on 11/9/2008, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Victoria's tallest trees" Link: Eucalyptologics: Tallest Eucalyptus found in Australia
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Thanks Phil!
The author of that paper is a legend among big tree hunters, having found many, which get their protection figure sooner or later. Especially interesting, the points made not about the current champion trees, but about those potential future ones, which would need of protection too if they are to replace (sooner or later, and hopefuly by natural processes) the bigguns of today.
Last February there was a nice meeting to discuss management considerations in this sense, and to join together international scientific support from many interrelated tree/plant disciplines. Which is a good thing 
Those "first 150 years" are the period for which the remaining big trees have experienced some competition from neighbouring ones. It would be much more intense just in the first decades, in a process in which a huge % of the original generation of trees in a given eucalypt tree stand would step down in the race for the sky
During all this time, the largest ones have to battle all the odds, lightning, winds, fire, axes, browsing, disease... that is why each of the "champion trees" is a treasure: they are very rare. But furthermore, they are the visible flag of the very special ecosystem of old growth eucalypt forests. Protecting the champions, you protect many other pieces of that system.
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