ABSTRACT
Since Mountain Forests are represented as comparatively rare, this inadvertently amounts to configuring Goolengook – and the majority of Victoria's forests – as mediocre and therefore expendable (exploitable). The effect of the scientific machine was to produce Goolengook as both a catchment in its own right, but as an interstitial territory as well. In view of the fact that only around 15% of the volume of wood extracted from native forests each year ends up as sawlogs, it is logical to conclude that areas such as Goolengook would be used in some kind of woodchipping regime. Goolengook, as a forest block of about 9000 hectares, constitutes just less than 1% of land in the forest management areas. In December 1986 the Land Conservation Council again made its recommendations on land use in the East Gippsland study region. And its decisions had direct implications for Goolengook.
