Racing against fire - inside the push to save alpine ash forests

Racing against fire - inside the push to save alpine ash forests

Trained arborists are scaling towering alpine ash trees around Tumbarumba, harvesting seeds to be stored in a climate-controlled facility in Eden. Photo: NSW Forestry Corporation. In the high country near Tumbarumba, arborists are once again climbing alpine ash trees as part of an intensive seed collection program to help safeguard the high country’s vulnerable ash forests from collapse. The program, overseen by NSW Forestry Corporation, is focu…