The Analysis and Management of Forest Landscapes: Exotics, Eucalypts or Solitude?

SUMMARY

Landscape management has long been an integral part of forest management in Australia. But there is a far shorter history of landscape analysis, and, at present, actual analyses of landscape preferences are rare. This paper reports on the successes and failures of a series of such analyses. The successes then form the basis of a review of recent criticisms of forest policies of landscape management. The critics argue, inter alia, that native forest is preferred to exotic forest. This particular criticism seems to be invalid and misleading. Furthermore, there are other, apparently more important, landscape characteristics which the critics often ignore.