These reports were primarily to advise Departmental staff of progress in the various research projects and any conclusions or results given were to be taken purely as interim findings. It was not intended that they would review all the activities of the Division of Forestry Education and Forestry Research, nor would they take the place of publication from time to time in the normal way of results of research projects.

This series of unpublished Research Branch Reports (and later on Forest Research Reports) spans the period March 1971 to October 2010. They were originated by the Research and Biological Survey Branch in FCV (Report Nos. 1 to 274), and were continued on following the creation of the Department of Conservation, Forest and Lands and its various successors (Report Nos. 275 to 398).

The series is complete except for Report Nos. 358 & 373, which are yet to be sourced, and Index Reports which have been superseded - the last index to be produced was Report No. 350, though an addendum has been added which lists Reports 351 through to 398.

These reports were intended primarily for internal use, to inform staff as quickly as possible on research progress and to record information of relevance to forest management in this State. Whilst the reports in this series were unpublished, quite a number were published in peer reviewed journals or as conference papers.

Complete sets were originally held in various locations such as regional offices, head office sections, departmental libraries, the School of Forestry and Land Management (Melbourne University and Creswick), field research stations, the Research Branch in Melbourne and at the Mountain Forest Research Station, Sherbrooke. The status of these hard copy collections is unknown, hence the importance of having this digital collection.

These reports have significant scientific and historical value, covering a wide range of topics such as silviculture, nursery practice, tree selection and breeding, pests and diseases, and impacts of forestry on flora, fauna, water quality and water yield.

Follow the links to either read the full report or view the summary. The reports can be downloaded. If there is a published version of the report, the reference will be listed at the end of the summary.  Also, if the author(s) have biographies on the website, they have been linked.