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As the fire progressed throughout the Marysville region, it burnt with high intensity throughstate forests that had been subjected to extensive past and ongoing logging operations.Some areas had tree trunks spread across the ground. Figure 5.22 shows an areapreviously regenerating from a clearfell logging operation carried out south of Marysvilleduring the 1990s. The trunks of standing trees were pushed towards the north-eastindicating that the fire passed through this location following the wind change. Thesurrounding forest was also severely fire affected. The author observed some trees hadsuffered complete separation of stems or crowns (Figure 5.23).Figure 5.22 Fire affected trees regenerating from past logging south ofMarysville. (Photo: Chris Taylor, August 2009)Figure 5.23 Fire affected forest, west of Marysville – trees originating from the 1939 fires.(Photo: Jacques Cop, April 2009)34