Regrowth Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus Regnans) stand like a forest of giant toothpicks, their regular spacing the result of human order, their straight trunks a consequence of their rapid race to the sun. Since they were planted some 60 years ago, the ground around them has been colonised by tree ferns (Cyathea australis). The ferns now fill the space between the tree trunks as far as the eye can see, their soft green heads pushing up with the randomness of nature. The juxtaposition of the delicate green fronds and the ordered white and orange trunks is what attracted us to this scene of "Order in the House". These wet hills in the Strzelecki Ranges in West Gippsland, southern Victoria, Australia were originally treed extensively by huge Mountain Ash. In 1881 at Thorpdale, one tree was recorded at 114m tall. It was cut down in order to measure its height. Much of the forest was clear felled in the mid 1800's as the government encouraged settlers to graze dairy cattle or to farm. The land was unsuitable for this purpose and most farms were abandoned, the area later being turned over to forestry coupes. This is still its use.