A combination of fire and intensive clearfell logging since 1980, and particularly since 2000, has created a predominantly young forest throughout the ash forests of the Central Forest Management Area. Compounded by the impoverishment of the understory by logging, this poses serious threats to the ecological integrity, processes and resilience of these complex and dynamic, biodiversity-rich mountain ecological communities, especially given the known trajectory of climate change and high  risk of future landscape-level wildfires.  A new RFPG report sets out in horrific detail the magnitude of the threat.