page_title: Mount Macedon, Victoria
section_title: Forestry
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Macedon, Victoria / Attractions / Forestry
caption_attribution_description: English: Victoria, Australia
context_page_description: Mount Macedon is a small town 64 kilometres north-west of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. The town is located below the mountain of the same name, which rises to 1,001 metres AHD. At the 2016 census, Mount Macedon had a population of 1,335 and is best known for its collection of 19th-century gardens and associated extravagant large homes, which is considered to be one of the most important such collections in Australia.
context_section_description: Another attraction of the Mount Macedon area is the extensive native forests which cover the mountain and surround the town.
  Intense harvesting of the native timber on the slopes of Mount Macedon for building and use in the gold mining industry in the early 19th century resulted in the rapid deforestation of the area, to the extent that efforts to replant the forests were undertaken in the late 1880s.
  Much of the forest on Mount Macedon consists of wet sclerophyll communities which are more commonly associated with areas east of Melbourne. Alpine Ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) occurs here at the western extent of its range and Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) at the northwestern extent of its range, Snow Gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora) are also found on the highest peaks. A large area of the Macedon Ranges forest is included in the Macedon Regional Park, managed by Parks Victoria.
  The area was devastated by the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires, including 80 hectares of Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) and Alpine Ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) and 150 hectares of soft wood timber plantation, however the forests and gardens have since regrown.
caption: Mount Macedon Forest
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