Cordwood 2021-One Man Logging (The best way to spoil a good walk)

With many areas off limits to vehicles due to flooding rain earlier in the year, I took a walk into my old "logging camp", and ended up spending the afternoon stockpiling a few logs to get started on the next cord. This area was burnt in the 2019/2020 summer bushfires and its been interesting to note a few differences in regeneration between this area and others over the last year or so. The fire in this particular section was much more intense (a larger bush corridor, as well as denser undergrowth) than the area I visited for "Ironbark" and "Bloodwood". This spot took several months longer to start reestablishing and had much more growth of introduced herbaceous and woody species, which have (mostly) since died off, to be replaced by native pioneer small trees like Wattles and Kurrajong. By comparison, the "Bloodwood" spot started establishing a ground cover of grasses, and has been much easier to manage. The larger trees, in this case a Grey Gum (E. punctata) and a Tallowood (E. microcorys), have been interesting to watch. Both have different methods of dealing with fire- the Grey has smooth, thin, even bark that was quickly shed when burnt, the Tallow has fairly thick insulative fibrous bark that can stay attached for years, but both species sent out new shoots from the trunk and branches at about the same rate.