Thinning dense regrowth

After a hot fire, eucalypt and wattle regrowth can come up at thousands of stems per hectare. It looks like a good result, and for a few years it is — but a wall of even-aged saplings shades out the ground layer, and the understorey diversity that survived the fire can be lost to the regrowth rather than to the fire itself.

The questions this section needs to answer: how to tell dense regrowth that will self-thin from regrowth that won’t; when thinning is justified and when it is meddling; how much to take and on what spacing; what to do with the material; and whether it is worth doing at the scale a landholder can manage.