The rate of logging in the RSF has increased dramatically - and unsustainably - since the 2009 bushfires.  See 30 years of Landsat Images.

The RFPG calls for extension of the reserve system in the Central Highlands to include, as top priority:

• the whole of the Torbreck Range to be joined with the Mt Torbreck reserve;
• the areas surrounding the Mt Bullfight Conservation Reserve to be joined with Lake Mountain including the headwaters of Snobs Creek , Royston River, Torbreck River and Arnold Creek extending south to Cambarville;
• the whole north end of the Blue Range and Middle Range to be joined with the Rubicon Valley Historic Area and reserved to protect this most north-easterly alpine ash outlier and adjoining forests;
• the Acheron Way must be recognised as a critical tourist road needing a much wider buffer and no further visible gashes;
• the Hermitage Creek area at Narbethong must be permanently reserved to protect the greater glider;
• all harvesting in the Rubicon Valley Historic Area should end.

Watch this space for more detailed maps and photographs depicting the proposed reserves including access roads.