Reforestation with rainforest trees: Challenges ahead

IntroductionSince the cessation of rainforest logging in tropical and subtropical Australia there have been anumber of published works on different aspects of growing native rainforest timbers, yet much of therelevant research has remained undocumented.The recent completion of the Community Rainforest Reforestation Program (CRRP) in northQueensland and other programs promoting farm forestry in the subtropics, as well as the restructuringof Queensland government departments of Primary Industries and Natural Resources, has meant thatmany of the people who conducted research in this field have recently changed jobs or researchfocus. This book was an attempt to capture the ecological and silvicultural knowledge we havegained over this period of time before it was lost.In this concluding chapter we reflect on what might make future reforestation with rainforest treessuccessful and the critical research areas that still need to be addressed. To facilitate this task we posea number of questions over which researchers and practitioners have pondered in recent years.