Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00270:body:0:p93
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00270
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 270921–273980

managed to conserve specific features. The protection or enhancement of these values requires modification to timber harvesting or other land use practices rather than their exclusion. Timber and other forest produce may be harvested from this zone under certain conditions. Periodic zoning reviews are undertaken to ensure SMZs are in the most appropriate locations, including after significant disturbance events such as bushfires.
Special Protection Zone (SPZ) – areas of state forest managed for conservation designed to complement the dedicated reserve system and categorised as Informal reserves. Larger components of the zone are based on representative examples of vegetation communities and old-growth, as well as localities of key threatened and sensitive flora and fauna species. This zone is managed to minimise disturbances or processes that threaten their respective values, and timber harvesting is excluded. Periodic zoning reviews are undertaken to ensure SPZs are in the most appropriate locations, including after significant disturbance events such as bushfires.
Stag – large hollow-bearing tree killed by fire but remaining standing.
Stag-watching – a sampling and monitoring method which involves a set of observers positioned around large hollow-bearing trees and observing the emergence of animals from tree hollows at dusk.
State forest – as defined in Section 3 of the Victorian Forests Act 1958, state forest comprises publicly owned land which is managed for the conservation of flora and fauna; for the protection of water catchments and water quality; for the provision of timber and other forest products on a sustainable basis; for the protection of landscape, archaeological and historical values; and to provide recreational and educational issues.
Sub-alpine (snow gum) woodlands – higher elevation (approximately 1400 m) habitat dominated by snow gum (E. pauciflora). Leadbeater's possum occurs in this habitat mostly where there is a dense midstorey (particularly of mountain tea tree (Leptospermum grandifolium) along drainage lines.
Subpopulations – geographically or otherwise distinct groups in the population between which there is little demographic or genetic exchange (typically 'one successful migrant individual or gamete per year or less') (IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee 2013). Note that subpopulations may be in close proximity, but interchange of individuals between them may nonetheless be highly constrained because of barriers to dispersal or because dispersal capability is limited. If their isolation is relatively recent, subpopulations may not show substantial genetic distinctiveness.
Suitable habitat – areas of montane ash forests or snow gum woodlands within the range of the species considered to provide habitat that is currently suitable for the species to occupy.
Thinning – the removal of part of a forest stand or crop, with the aims of increasing the growth rate or health of retained trees and, in commercial thinning, obtaining timber from trees that would otherwise eventually