Ann Duncan walks through the forest where her children once played.
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Her home is not far from the trail, which is cool in the shade of eucalypts and man ferns.
The Lapoinya coupe, the scene of protests and the crashing sound of logging in January, is now peaceful.
But it doesn’t feel like home to Mrs Duncan any more.
“Sometimes I wonder why I’m still here, being surrounded by forestry plantations,” she said.
The trail remains cool until a clearing shows the impact of Forestry Tasmania’s harvest.
The area is hotter without the shade of trees. It’s covered in the debris of fallen wood and tree stumps.
Months ago, it was rich forest layered with foliage.
The small community of Lapoinya, numbering about 270 people, made national news protesting Forestry Tasmania’s plan to log 49 hectares of forest in the coupe.
Today it’s coming to terms with defeat and the cleared stretches of ground near its homes.
“It’s just so sad to see it all gone,” Mrs Duncan said.
“It’s like a loss. You feel lost really without it.”
There were fears the logging could destroy the community before it began in January.
One of the leading organisers of Lapoinya’s protests, Stewart Hoyt, admits Mrs Duncan isn’t the only person who’s wondered if she should stay.
“We’re all having to reevaluate our commitment here and have a look at what the landscape looks like now with all these plantations, knowing the plantations will be ready soon [for harvest],” he said.
While Lapoinya lost its fight against Forestry Tasmania, its residents are thinking long-term.
“We’re not finished with it yet,” Mr Hoyt said.
Since January many players in the confrontation have changed.
Paul Harriss left the forestry ministry in February and four board members resigned from Forestry Tasmania, including its chairman Bob Annells, at the time of the dispute.
The residents of Lapoinya remain.
“We’re here to stay,” Mr Hoyt said.
Lapoinya is looking ahead by talking about how it wants to see the coupe regenerated.
Residents want it to regrow into the layered mix of tree species it used to be, rather than a monoculture plantation of eucalypts.
Forestry Tasmania practice is to clear harvest debris through controlled burning.
Mr Hoyt believes this will only lead to the growth of monocultures that will be harvested in another 40 years.
“We can’t afford to incinerate it.”
He said he wondered what happened to Tasmanian devils and snakes that lived in the coupe, and that fewer quolls go onto his property.
“There was nowhere else for them really to go.”
Forestry Tasmania in January said it found no devil dens when surveying the area.
Mr Hoyt said 200 people protested across the eight weeks of action in early 2016.
Protesters and residents heard trees crash down and at times felt the ground rumble as bulldozers worked inside the coupe.
Bob Brown, who approached Lapoinya to get involved, gave the cause national profile when he was arrested under new state laws targeting protests in workplaces.
"Lapoinya's the heart and soul of Tasmania and it's being bulldozed," he said after his arrest.
His charges have since been dropped.
Despite protests, Forestry Tasmania continued to clearfell the coupe, part of the permanent timber production zone agreed to by all parties to Tasmania's forestry peace deal, including the Greens.
“We realised the protest by then, towards the end, was something people did because they felt they needed to be counted, rather than stop or slow the process. Which was sad,” Mr Hoyt said.
The protest leader, who has lived at Lapoinya since 1981, believes the coupe’s freshwater lobsters will be driven out by sediment in the water resulting from logging.
To save the species in the area, he warns there needs to be at least one major tributary reserve in each watershed.
Forestry Tasmania reduced the proposed logging area in the coupe from 92 hectares in response to the community’s feedback.
The company said in January species that passed through the coupe could move to the 290-hectare Flowerdale regional reserve neighbouring it, as well as vegetation retained near streams.
Last week Forestry Tasmania said it had discussed with community members its plans to regrow the coupe as native forest.
“As part of this consultation, local community members accepted that a regeneration burn is necessary and requested it is a low to moderate intensity burn,” a spokeswoman said.
“We have agreed to this request.”
The harvested area will be regenerated with eucalypt seed matching the species mix of the original forest, following the regeneration burn, it said.
“This will ensure that the regenerated forest contains the same proportion of different eucalypt species that were present prior to harvesting.
“Other non eucalypt species will regenerate naturally over time as the forest matures.”
Mrs Duncan sits on a tree stump and surveys the clearing. She can see the logged areas from her home.
“I would like to see that coupe regenerated with the native species that were there before.”