Tasmania is the most heavily forested state, recording the tallest and largest trees ever found in Australia.

Eucalyptus Regnans, or mountain ash, is the tallest hardwood tree in the world, with heights recorded to around 300 feet high.

Despite rampant colonial clearing, many great trees still stand, often in pure stands of old growth forest in national parks.

It is Forestry Tasmania policy, enshrined in law, that either significant trees, or trees over 85 metres high, receive reservation status.

		Eucalyptus Regnans (mountain ash /swamp gum) Tasmania's famous El Grande. Saved from logging, by Forestry Tasmania but then accidentally burned during a regeneration burn. This tree has an 18.9 metre circumference and is 80 metres high.

In the near future pictures of some other great Tasmanian trees will be included on this web page.