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of Conservation and Environment, Victoria, 
and by Dr D. Ashton, Melbourne University. 
We thank Mr F. Morris, Department of Conser¬ 
vation and Environment (retired) for sharing his 
field experience of Eucalyptus nitens and the 
Errinundra Plateau. 
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