"The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do."
Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia, Inaugural Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, August 1996.
In 1945 there was a well-resourced Campaign called "Save the Forests". It was a significant campaign with input from a wide range of Government and private organisations.
Roger Smith has provided a collection of pamphlets from that time that were held by his father, Frank Smith, who in 1946 was the "Field Officer" of the Campaign. There are extensive typewritten notes of his activities during this period which may be a useful addition to this article.
The pamphlets are reproduced below.
An Inseparable Trinity - Save the Forests Campaign Annual Report 1949
Second Report of Activities
Structure
Country Organisation
Activities
Growing Eucalypts
Forest Week 1945
School Camps
Water
Introduction
Seed Collection
Also
Maffra Newspaper Article 1946
Save the Forests A Ker, 1950 (Empire Forestry Review, Vol. 29, No. 2)
Save the Forests - Scout Involvement CE Isaac, 1945
Principal Timber Trees. FCV 1925
Principal Australian Eucalypts. FCV. 1924
Campaign Poster - Around 1945
"Let us regard the forest as an inheritance, not to be destroyed or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forest as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation."
Baron Ferdinand von Mueller - Suggestions on the Maintenance, Creation and Enrichment of Forests (1879)