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A Forester's Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester's
viewpoint-the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation
of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State
Forest in the late nineteenth century.La Gerche's Letter Books and
Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a
bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he
daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, 'scamps and
vagabonds' who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering
work helped shape today's forested landscape around the Central
Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, 'the home of forestry'.In
the detailed correspondence between this amateur forester and his
bureaucratic masters lies the human story of an ordinary yet
remarkable man, endeavouring to strike a fair balance between the
competing demands of local woodcutters and distant officials.
Angela Taylor reads between the lines to create a beautifully
perceptive portrait of a vanishing character type-the truly
committed public servant. A Forester's Log is an illuminating and
charming book which will appeal to a wide range of readers, both
urban and rural, including those interested in conservation and
landscape heritage.
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