General Publications
There are hundreds of documents/publications attached to the site. The General Publications list contains those documents considered to be significant stand-alone publications. Documents relevent to particular topics can be found under the thematic listings.
DSE. 2010
Ian Ferguson. IFA Newsletter Vol 36 No.1 February 1995
David Williams. 2021
A review of the Government's plantation program- success or failure?
Published in 1989 during the development of the Otways Forest Management Plan.
Jack Gillespie & John Wright. 1994
LT Carron. 1985
Moray Guild Douglas. 2007
The Story of Heyfield and the Sawmilling Industry, 1945-1995. B Howell. 1995
WS Noble. 1974
Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Silvicultural Systems for Multi Purpose Management of Mountain Ash Forests. Part 1. VSP Technical Report 29. NRE August 1997
R. J. Grose, F. R. Moulds and M. G. Douglas. (1964) Aust. For. 28 (3)
FCV, ca 1970
State Aircraft Unit, Victoria. 2007
Unpublished document prepared by Norman Houghton in 2016
Miscellaneous Publ. No. 8, FCV, 1961
Anglesea & District Historical Society. KL Cecil and RV Carr. 1988
A History of Victoria's Land Conservation and Environment Conservation Councils. D Clode. 2006
Conservation Forests and Lands, Historic Places Branch - C Fahey (1988)
Notes prepared for a VNPA Field Meeting. BD Dexter, May 1994
FCV. Undated but probably 1970s.
Norman Houghton
KJ Simpfendorfer. April 1982
Report of the Board of Inquiry into the Occurrence of Bush and Grass fires in Victoria. Victorian Government. 1977
FCV. Undated but probably 1970s
RF Hateley School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, Institute of Land and Food Resources,University of Melbourne,Creswick Campus
September 2004Silviculture reference manual No. 4. Peter Fagg and Owen Bassett. 2015
Forest Fire and Regions Groups. Science Catalogue 2017-18. DELWP. 2017
Extract from Papers relating to Forest Conservancy Published by Dept Crown Lands, 17 December 1874
FCv publications designed to assist with increasing charcoal production during WW2.
A History of the Timber industry in the West Otway Ranges. Norman Houghton. 2018
One hundred years of forestry education centred on Creswick, Victoria. R Youl, B Fry, R Hately. 2010
Life at the Victorian School of Forestry, Creswick, 1959-1961. P Lawson, R Smith, B Fry. 2010
The first Code produced by CFL - May 1989
Compiled by S Murphy, C Polak Skowcroft and R Coy. 1998
Forestry & Timber Bureau Leaflet No. 80. AG McArthur, 1962
A Souvenir of the Creswick Nursery and Plantations. Visit by Members of Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly to Creswick, 14 May, 1925. FCV.
FCV. 1979
Bjarne K Dahl's Journey. P Evans. 2010
A Story of the Heytesbury Shire. Rosamund Duruz. 1974
PhD Thesis
History of Early Forest Exploration in Victoria. David Drangsholt. 2014
With the permission of the author, Peter Evans, and the Light Railways Research Society of Australia. 2016
Material about Victorian forests in the mid 1870s - taken from The Influence of Colonization on the Forests and the Prevalence of Bushfires in Australia. AR King. CSIRO
Tolhurst, Flinn, Loyn, Wilson andFoletta. DCE.1992
Australian Forest Research 1977, 7
Statement prepared by the FCV for The British Empire Forestry Conference. London 1947
Report on the Advisableness of Establishing State Forests. The Surveyor-General, the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Survey and the Secretary for Mines. 1864-65
A report to Victoria's 150th Anniversary Board. P. J. Baldwin, H. T. L. Stewart, W. I. Hamer, P. R. Bird and D. W. Flinn. March 1986. 32 pp. (Summary)
FCV. Undated
H. T. L. Stewart, P. Hopmans, D. W. Flinn, T. J. Hillman and J. Collopy. April 1988 Tech. Rep No. 7, Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation, Albury, N.S.W. 28 pp. + Tables + App. (Summary) (Note that the AWDC was abolished by Act of Parliament in late 2014)
The author, Edward (Ted) George Stuckey, graduated from the VSF in 1957.
Summary of Evidence Presented Before the Rural Reconstruction Commission of the Ministry of Post War Reconstruction. FCV. 1943
A Symposium on Fuel Reduction Burning in Forests. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash University. 17 September 1983.
Fire history and fire management to conserve social, economic and environmental values in floodplain river red gum forests. BD Dexter. 2011
A Bartlett and G Morgan.
A Hodgson. Reprinted from Proceedings Sixth Annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference, March 6-7 1967.
CNR Bulletin - early 1990s
Auditor General Victoria 2003
Report to the Minister for Forests - RA McKenzie
Auditor General, Special Report 16. April 1992
K Tolhurst (2012) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 24( ): 30-37. ISSN 0035-92 .
Rawson and Rees - Summary from a report on the MAFFS system.
Extracts from "The Glory Days" by Desmond Foley. 2022.
"Not only did Des’ father, Adrian (Ade), work for the Forests Commission, Ade’s niece, Barbara Tucker, married forester Jack Gillespie who was posted to Erica between 1946 and 1953."Papers relating to Forest Conservancy. Victoria. 1874
CFL. Peter Woodgate & Peter Black. October 1988.
FCV. 1940s?
A compilation of forest recreation guides for different forest areas.
A description of the remedial measures adopted to eradicate case moths (Clania tenuis) at the Yarrowee State Plantation, Ballarat. FCV. JW Bowen. 1930
Edited by RJ Raison and RO Squire. Dept of Climate Change, Australia. 2008
A bulletin published by the FCV eight times between August 1980 and July 1982. It was designed to provide information to staff about FCV activities.
Gary Vines, 1985. Honours Thesis at La Trobe University.
Extract (Chapter 7) from Land and Food: Agricultural and Related Education in the Victorian Colleges and University of Melbourne. L Falvey and B Bardsley. 1997. Chapter 7 by IS Ferguson and R Youl
A Report prepared by the Forestry Section of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry for the occasion of the retirement of the Dean Mr J. H. Chinner, November 1980.
JA McKinty. 1991
Reprinted from Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, Vol. 82, Part 1, Pages 129-140. JA McKinty. Issued separately, 29 January 1969.
A Review of the Science of Plantation Forestry in Victoria. J Turner, K Wareing, D Flinn, M Lambert. April 2004.
H. Mackay. Conservator of Forests
Empire Forestry Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1. Owen Jones. 1926
Prepared on the Occasion of the Eighth All Australian Timber Congress, held in Melbourne, April 1972. FCV. 1972
Original by M Boucher in 1980. Updated by M Poynter in October 1989
FCV. Tour by Members of Parliament. 8th, 9th & 10th Feb. 1978
A chapter from Introducing Victoria. Edited by GW Leeper. Chapter written by KVM Ferguson & JH Chinner.
Establishes the FCV
A Compilation of Short Stories. P McHugh. 2020
A Compilation of Short Stories. P McHugh. 2021
A Compilation of Short Stories. P McHugh. 2022
FCV 1978
From the Forest Education Project. NRE. 1998
A History of the Macedon State Nursery, 1872 - 1995. FR Moulds & MJ Burns. Published by the Forests Service, NRE, 1997
Paper presented to the 3rd International Aerospace Symposium, Vancouver, 1973
How it was done in the old days in the Otway Ranges. N Houghton, 1995
FCV. Undated but probably early 1970s.
No. 1 Copper Based Fungicides. FCV. ca 1970
Prepared by the FCV for the Empire Forestry Conference, Australia and New Zealand. 1928
Prepared by the FCV for the Empire Forestry Conference, 1935
Miscellaneous Publication No. 7. Prepared for the FCV by KVM Ferguson, Chief Technical Officer
K. V. M. Ferguson, Miscellaneous Publication No. 7, FCV, 1965
Arnis Heislers. 2013
Silviculture reference manual No. 2. Ian Sebire and Peter Fagg. 2009
Athol Hodgson
Extract from - Report to the LCC. A Storey & P Davies, August 1995
Section K. Presidential Address. ANZAAS Report. MR Jacobs. March 1957.
Environment & Matural Resources Committee, Victorian Parliament, and the Govt Response
A thesis submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts at Monash University. Brian V Doolan. 2015
Fire Ecology Working Group, September 1999, Natural Resources and Environment and Parks Victoria.
Report of the Resolutions, Proceedings, and Debates, Adelaide. May 1916
The story of an officer who started work with the FCV in 1951 as, in his words, "a billy boy", and who went on to work with Parks Victoria."
M Leonard & R Hammond. FCV, January 1984
Forest Recollections Series. Early Forest Utilisation. Edited transcript of presentations by Mr Alfred Lawrence (OBE), Mr Hector Ingram, Mr John Youl (OBE). Victorian Division IFA, 1979
Joely A Taylor. 2015
J Turner (October 2023) in - Forest Ecology and Management, Journal Homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco
Silviculture reference manual No.3. Simon Murphy, Ron Hateley and Peter Fagg. 2013
Against the Elements. Sawmilling in the Otways and at Tanjil Bren. A First Hand Account by James Mackie. 1980
Country Fire Authority, December 1983.
Chapter 2. Box ironbark Forests. JD Kellas, ca. 2008
Chapter 8. The Low Elevation Mixed Species Forests. JD Kellas and RF Hateley. ca. 2008
Executive Summary of Research Findings. Eds D Flinn (DCE) & H Mamers (CSIRO). DCE April 1991
Prepared for Forest and Wood Products Australia. J Turner, D Flinn, M Lambert, K Wareing and S Murphy. 2011
Auditor General, October 2003
Auditor-General, December 2013
Early Forest Management - Edited transcript - J.A. McKinty and M. Thompson (1980), Forest Recollection Series, IFA
FCV. Undated but probably 1970s.
A general treatise on its silviculture, management, and utilization. AV Galbraith. 1937
Silviculture reference manual No. 1. Andrew Flint and Peter Fagg. 2007
Undated FCV publication - almost certainly from the 1970s.
Produced in 1998 by DM Thompson and Peter Evans. Peter has kindly allowed us to publish this article.
A New Focus for Australia's Forests. Commonwealth of Australia. 1st Edition, 1992. 2nd Edition, 1995
A Descriptive Survey of Victoria's Forest Institutions, 1900-2010. Brian V Doolan. 2018
Copy of the Original Document. F d’A Vincent. 1887
Transcribed Version. F d’A Vincent. 1887
A History of the Timber Industry in Victoria's Far South West. Garry Kerr. 1995
"My Life in the Forests of Victoria and the Timber Industry, 1914-1976." Written in the mid-1970s.
Two extracts from "The life and times of the Colac-Beech Forest-Crowes narrow gauge railway, 1902-1962. Norman Houghton 1992"
The Week a State Burned Up. WS Noble. 1977 (The 1939 Fires)
GA Facey, 1977. (Self published)
Michael Roche in Australian Forest History Society Inc. Newsletter No. 80. September 2020.
Michael Roche in Australian Forest History Society Inc. Newsletter No. 63. September 2014.
Michael Roche in Australian Forest History Society Inc. Newsletter No. 74. April 2018.
A New Industry. Empire Forestry Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2. AV Galbraith. December 1937
Stephen Legg in Chapter 10—Australia’s Ever-changing Forests VI: Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Australian Forest History. Brett J. Stubbs et al. (ed.) (2012)
"It was tabled only a month before, and was directly responsible for, the appointment of the long- running Royal Commission on Forests (1897–1901)." Source: Passionate Advocates - S Legg 2012
Owen Jones in - The Australian Forestry Journal, Vol IV No. 7. July 1921
An Address delivered to the 1940 Convention of the Victorian Chamber of Agriculture. AV Galbraith. 1940
FCV. 1982
A List of the Principal Species of Australian Eucalypts and other Indigenous Trees. FCV. 1924
A Brief Description of the Principal Timber Trees of Victoria, Showing their Uses. FCV. 1925
A review of the scientific basis of current and proposed protection measures. Forest Service Technical Report 95-4.
Report of the Secretary for Agriculture on the Red Gum Forests of Gunbower and Barmah. 1878
Notes prepared by JW Youl
A Discussion Paper. FCV. 1984
A Report from The Inspector of Forests for 1870
The Report of the First Conservator, GS Perrin. 1890
Victorian Government
LEB Stretton. 1939
A. Hodgson. Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship, 1966, 10 pp.
B Ribbentrop. 1896
Report to Legislative Council, February 2009
Progress Report 1955-60. Prepared for the Eighth British Commonwealth Forestry Conference 1962. FCV. 1961
FCV. 1970s?
Australian Forestry Vol 50 No 4.
River Red Gum - Forest Profiles No.3. National Forest Inventory (abt 1991)
Extracts relevant to forestry. 1871
This Report contains the Royal Commission's recommendations.
A follow on from the 1895 Royal Commission showing areas recommended to be set aside for timber production.
Extract from the Timber Industry Strategy 1986.
A History of Sawmilling in the East Otway Ranges. Norman Houghton. 2010
A History of Sawmilling in the Heytesbury Forest. Alf Poole. Compiled 1986-1988
Dept of Conservation & Environment - early 1990s
" in the Country Districts of Victoria". KVM Ferguson. Leaflet No. 3. June 1945.
FCV 1977
R. G. Campbell, E. A. Chesterfield, F. G Craig, P C. Fagg, P. W. Farrell, G. R. Featherston, D. W. Flinn, P. Hopmans, J. D. Kellas, C. J. Leitch, R. H. Loyn, M. A. Macfarlane, L. A. Pederick, R. O. Squire, H. T. L. Stewart, and G. C. Suckling. March 1984. For. Comm. Vic. 175 pp. (unpubl).
A Discussion Paper. FCV October 1982
VSP Technical Report No. 28. NRE. R Campbell 1997
VSP Technical Report No. 27. NRE. R Campbell 1997
Report on Progress of the SilviculturaL Systems Project 1990
Their Management for Recreation and the Conservation of Flora, Fauna and Landscape. KJ Wareing. 1980
SSP Technical Report No. 8. C&E. 1991
Victorian Governmentt publication from the 1960s.
Extracted from the Timber Industry Strategy 1986.
Articles extracted from The Sylvanite
Prepared by K Tolhurst and NP Cheney. NRE 1999
Published in aid of the Busfire Relief Fund. 1939
A statement to the Victorian Parliament by the Chief Secretary, Arthur Rylah, about the 1964/65 fire season.
A reconstruction of events from February to March 1965. P McHugh. February 2020
The 1982-83 Bushfire Season including Ash Wednesday. P McHugh. October 2022
Aust. For., 1983, 46 (3), 163-172. RP Rawson, PR Billing and SF Duncan. 1983
Implications of the 2019-20 bushfires on future implementation of Victoria’s RFAs. A presentation prepared by T Bartlett, 2022
Extract from Vol.1 No.3 of "The Australasian" magazine. Published 28 April 1851.
Empire Forestry Journal, Vol 16, No 1. AV Galbraith. July 1937
Empire Forestry Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1. AV Galbraith. July 1939
A History of Forestry and Forest Industries in Victoria. FR Moulds. 1991
Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Industrial & Technological Museum, Melbourne. Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. 1894
FCV and Monash University (1969)
Muelleria. 2: 169–179. TB Muir. 1972
FCV. Undated but probably 1976/1977
A comprehensive study of the fires which burnt in excess of 1,000,000ha.
Australian Forest League. June 1930.
Australian Forest League. June 1929
Produced by the Barham Historical Society, 1990
B Dexter. Paper presented at the Australian Aerial Agricultural Association 13th Annual Symposium 4th-5th November 1971, Hobart. Tasmania.
Evidence presented to the Enquiry on Wildlife Conservation conducted by the House of Representatives Select Committee, Melbourne 1971. FR Moulds, Chairman, FCV.
Empire Forestry Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1. WW Gay. July 1938
FCV & Monash University, 1970
E. D. Gill, Miscellaneous Publication No. 6, FCV, 1957
FCV and Monash University (1974)
Kevin Wareing and David Flinn. DSE 2003
Ken=vin Wareing and David Flinn. DSE. 2003
Report prepared for the MMBW concerning the proposal to dam the Thomson River.
Final Report of the State Development Committee. The Utilisation of Timber Resources in the Watersheds of the State. 1960
JW Bowen. FCV. 1973
From the Forest Education Project.
Based on Welcome Back to Balmoral. L Harris. 1975
Authors - DW Flinn, DJ McKittrick, RB Smith, KJ Wareing. July 1984
Special Report No. 22. Auditor-General, Victoria. May 1993
Victorian Government. 1986
A Sawmilling History of the Murrindindi Forest. N Houghton. 1986
An article by LB Williams from about 1976. The Journal in which this article was published is unknown at this stage.
Summary of Evidence Presented before State Development Committee. AV Galbraith. 15 September 1943
FCV Pavilion
Edgar JG, Kile GA, Almond CA - Aust. For., 1976, 39(4),
A statement of tree decline and destruction in rural areas with recommendations for action. Institute of Foresters of Australia. 1980
KVM Ferguson. FCV Miscellaneous Publication No 5. 1963.
Trees for Profit - Commercial Tree Growing for Land and Water Care
1: Soil and Groundwater Characteristics of the Pilot SitesL Bren, P Hopmans, B Gill, T Baker and D Stackpole.
Trees for Profit - Commercial Tree Growing for Land and Water Care
2. Trial Objectives and Design for Pilot Sites
T Baker, J Bail, R Borschmann, P Hopmans, J Morris, F Neumann, D Stackpole and R FarrowTrees for Profit - Commercial Tree Growing for Land and Water Care
3. Establishment of Pilot Sites
D Stackpole, R Borschmann and T BakerTrees for Profit - Effects of Salinity on the Growth of Four Eucalyptus Species on Irrigated Sites in Northern Victoria
A Hamlet and J MorrisTrees for Profit - The Impact of Insect Pests on Young Eucalypt Plantings in the Shepparton Irrigation Region
FG Neumann and NG CollettTrees for Profit - Monitoring Groundwater and Soil Conditions at the TFP Pilot Sites
T Batey and J MorrisFCV Publication - as usual an undated publication, but there was a reprint in 1968 that is on this site.
FCV. 1968
First Interim Report for the Value Adding Utilisation System Trial. C&E, 1992
Conservation & Natural Resources - Reprint 1993
Extracts from the 1962 and 1963 Victorian Year Books about Victorian flora and mammals.
Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria, Vol 17, No 1, March 1975.
Parliament of Victoria -October 2023
List of Victorian Commercial Timbers - Showing their Present Uses. FCV. 1924
Link to photos in Google Photos Album
Opportunities for the Riverain Red Gum Forests of the Central Murray. B Dexter & M Poynter October 2005
The Board was asked to consider and report upon the subject of wattle bark, and whether the indiscriminate stripping of the trees, caused by the increasing demand for bark in Continental and English markets, in addition to the requirements of Victorian tanners, was likely to lead to the early extermination of the trees or to a reduction of the supply necessary for the home trade even temporarily. The Board were also asked to state whether forest regulations could be so framed as to conserve and encourage the growth of the wattle trees in order that a sufficient supply of bark might be ensured for local requirements as well as for the maintainance of the export trade.
Norman Houghton. In Australian Forest History Society Newsletter No 62, April 2014.
Cann River: The Big Fires, 1983. Heather Quick
A product of "The Forest Education Project" from 1997
A Sawmilling History of the Wombat Forest, 1854-2008. Norman Horton. 2013
FCV. Probably late 1970s
From the Forest Education Project.
FCV. Undated. Probably 1970s