I ..-, I 
Mr. Walter (Jill. Conservator of Forests. Adelaide, gave me in 1919 a photograph 
t.ikt'ii near 1'enola township, 22 miles north of .Mount Gambier, showing where the 
hftrk had heon stripped off for say, 3 feet of a small Eucalyptus viminalis sapling. 
' This was done by wild deer, which do great damage by barking young trees 
gums as well as pines by their antlers. I have had them shot and killed by great 
dogs, as they are an inveterate nuisance breaking netting fences and letting rabbits 
in.." He also writes : " I may also say that both at Wirrabara and Bundaleer Forests 
in the north, both of which you visited with me many years ago, as well as at Mount 
Burr Forest in the south-east, the common opossum has ruined hundreds of Maritime 
Pines (Pinus maritiwa) and Aleppo Pines (Pinus halepensis) by eating off the tender 
green bark of the leaders for 2 or 3 feet, causing great exudation of turpentine 
accompanied by the ultimate death of the trees affected. I had, therefore, to take 
vigorous measures for their destruction." 
The destruction of both native and introduced trees by native and introduced 
animals ia only imperfectly known at the present time, and further detailed information 
is sought. 
Native Animals. 
District Office, Tumut. 
The Mountain Opossum eats the Ash leaves (E. gigantea). 
W. A. W. de Beuzeville, Assistant Forester. 
(Opossums often kill E. coriacea A. Cunn., a Mountain White Gum, because of 
their fondness for the young leaves.) 
District Office, Glen Innes. 
Inverell. Opossums favour principally Blue Gum, Brown, and Red Gum and 
White Box, but as opossums are mainly grass feeders, little damage is done to trees. 
Legume and Tenterfield. The opossums in this sub-district seem to have 
preference for Apple. 
Armidale. The trees mos.t favoured by native animals are, the Stringybarks, 
Messmate, Peppermint, Blackbutt, Blue and White Gum. 
F- S. BOYD, District Forester. 
The species referred to are probably 
E. saligna (Blue Gum). E. obliqua (Messmate). 
E. Bancrofti and E. tereticornis (Red Gum). E. pilularis (Blackbutt). 
/:. ItemipMoia var. albens (White Box). E. Deanei (Brown Gum). 
E. deqlbata (Silver-leaf Mountain Gum). E- propinqua (Grey Gum). 
E. eugenioides and others (Stringybarks), E. lie,,,; nhloia (Grey Box). 
E. MmrtiauM (Apple). E. Andrews i (Peppermint). 
E. grandis (Flooded Gum). E. coriacea (White Gum). 
