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Figure 4.7: Micro-fencing around paddock trees to better protect them. (Photo by David Lindenmayer)
Control the impacts of fire on paddock trees
Large old trees can be particularly fire-prone and can be badly damaged or even
killed outright by a high severity burn. A good way to protect paddock trees is to
restrict the use of fire around them.
Complementary plantings around paddock trees
Paddock trees can be valuable places around which to
establish block or strip plantings (see Chapter 3).
Plantings with paddock trees have proved to be more
valuable habitats for some native animal species than
plantings without paddock trees. 23, 29
Reduced grazing pressure
is critical to ensure that
regeneration of paddock
trees can take place
Fallen timber
Fallen timber and large logs are increasingly recognised for the wide range of
important ecological roles they play on farms. These include:
storing large amounts of carbon
storing large quantities of nutrients which are eventually returned to the soil as
a log decomposes
trapping leaf litter and soil
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