Perfumed Pineries: Environmental history of Australia's Callitris forests
Edited by John Dargavel, Diane Hart and Brenda Libbis

This volume presents recent advances in the environmental history of Australia's unique, but little known native cypress pine forests of the endemic genus Callitris. The fifteen species of Callitris span the continent from the tropics, through the semi-arid woodlands to temperate Tasmania. They have survived in Australia for at least a million years. They are famed for their termite-resistant timber and for their aromatic oil. Large areas have been cleared, some areas are being seriously depleted, others are being used for grazing, or are carefully managed in state forests, national parks and nature reserves.

A Million Wild Acres, written by Eric Rolls twenty years ago, introduced its many readers to the history of the largest of the Callitris forests-the Pilliga in New South Wales. Many scientific investigations and heritage studies have followed in the Pilliga and elsewhere.

Here, twenty-three papers report the latest research and writing on Aboriginal burning, the ancient pollen record, landscape formation, regeneration and grazing, forest management, the resurgence of koalas, microscopic secrets in the wood, heritage surveys and much more.

Prepared jointly by the Australian Forest History Society, the Australian National University and Macquarie University, Perfumed Pineries reports a new phase in learning about these fascinating Australian environments.

ISBN 086740 524 4

pp. x+209

Contents

1 Palynology of the perfumed pineries of arid South Australia Jon Luly

2 Callitris and the botanists Sybil Jack

3 A history of the wood anatomy of Callitris Roger Heady

4 Dendrochronology of Australian cypress pines John Banks and Ian Pulsford

5 A new technique in dendroecology using Callitris Mathew Searson and Stuart Pearson

6 Identifying a white pine-ironbark community from phytoliths Diane M. Hart

7 Assessing changes in cypress pine forests from old stumps Ian Lunt, David Parker and Wayne Robinson

8 Stump count analysis of the pre-European Pilliga forests David Paull

9 Soil, vegetation and landform in Pilliga East State Forest Geoff Humphreys, Elizabeth Norris, Paul Hesse, Diane Hart, Peter Mitchell, Peter Walsh and Russell Field

10 Pilliga landscapes, Quaternary environment and geomorphology Paul Hesse and Geoff Humphreys

11. Litterfall and decomposition in a white pine-ironbark community Diane M. Hart

12 Koala populations in the Pilliga forests Rod Kavanagh and Elizabeth Barrott

13 Floristic patterns in the Pilliga Doug Binns and Doug Beckers

14 The 'frontier': Callitris intratropica and landscape change David Bowman

15 Perfumed pine and the pioneers Bob McKillop

16 Recent disturbances to Callitris forests in Southern Queensland Mark Harris and David Lamb

17 Management plans for cypress forests John Dargavel and Margaret Kowald

18 Calculating sustained yields in New South Wales cypress forests, 1915 to1957 Andrew Deane

19 A vanishing presence: Queensland forest heritage David Cameron

20 Disturbance history mapping in New South Wales Pauline Curby, Michael O'Neill, Rhondda O'Neill and Patrick Tap

21 Regulating Callitris populations: a tale of two pineries James C. Noble

22 The writing of A Million Wild Acres Tom Griffiths

23 Perfumed pines: the exploited and the exploiter Eric Rolls