Extracts from a Report on the Red Gum Forests of Gunbower and Barmah
"The length of time that our redgum forests will last, at the present rate of consumption, is variously estimated at from four to six years."
"If we refer to the plan of the Barmah forest, it will be seen at a glance that the timber on the river bank, and back for an average distance of two miles, has been either partly or entirely worked, and that the mills which were laid down, with the exception of the Cornella mill, owned by Messrs. McCulloch and Co., have been abandoned on that account.