Sherbrooke Forest

Sherbrooke Forest lies at an altitude of 300 m within the Dandenong Ranges, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The vegetation is classified as wet sclerophyll forest with the dominant tree species the Mountain Ash, "Eucalyptus regnans", the tallest flowering plant in the world. From the mid 19th century until 1930 it was logged. In 1958 it was gazetted as a park, and in 1987 it was merged with Doongalla Reserve and Ferntree Gully National Park to form the 32.15 km² Dandenong Ranges National Park.

Sherbrooke Forest is famous for its population of Superb Lyrebirds and was an early, and still important, site for the study and conservation of this species. One of the early lyrebird researchers and sound recordists of the 1930s was Ray Littlejohns. Another researcher who analysed lyrebird song was K. C. Halafoff.

External links

* [http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=49 Dandenong Ranges National Park]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~donvrac/#Sherbrooke%20Forest Friends of Sherbrooke Forest]