End to an End | Running to save the Great Forest - Episode 3

Ultra-runner, Majell Backhausen runs 273km, from Wandong to Mt. Baw Baw, crossing through the lands of the Taungurung, Wurundjeri and GunnaiKurnai people.
Through his eyes, we experience the rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands in Australia and meet the determined individuals and organisations working tirelessly to protect these lands for the benefit of us all. These unique forests are home to the critically endangered Leadbeater's Possum and the Baw Baw Frog, among many other creatures and plants found almost nowhere else on Earth.
This film series explores the life of an unique and precious ecosystem on the doorstep of Melbourne and advocates for why its biodiversity, water, and culture should be protected.
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[@ForgottenWilderness]

Beau Miles is an enigma and a perfect fit for Patagonia.

[@peterpain6625]

Also good at product testing i recon. If someone can wear stuff until it fades away it's Beau ;)

[@unnamedman1720]

Beau would never pay Patagonia prices, who you kidding?

[@peterpain6625]

@@unnamedman1720 If they want a legend to (re)present their stuff they probably need to give it to him for free. IF he even takes it.

[@stacybarden2480]

I agree! Beau and the beautiful wife are a perfect fit for Patagonia! Beau is a genuine inspiration for Australians 😊

[@Alex-m8515]

I Love Beau he’s always bringing positive energy.

[@CatatonicImperfect]

Ha! I just saw "running" and an Australian landscape in the thumbnail and had a suspicion that Beau Miles would be involved. Happy to see this confirmed. Now, without having seen the video yet, I wonder how many times he'll be picking up trash from the side of some forest road :)

[@colbycalabrese8417]

Love Beau Miles Legendary human being

[@JakeMay]

Great film. Beau is a fantastic character - passionate but engaging, funny and human. Thanks for making this!

[@tobiasi.2181]

Gotte love this brand. Nice to see that Beau was allowed to wear his hat instead of wearing the Patagonia cap all day.

[@danielvandevort520]

Great stuff! Especially the logging statistics that Beau shared around minute 5. Those need to be shared as widely as possible! I would love to read more about them. Where can I find the reference for that info?

[@Healinghikesaustralia]

I met Majell during the filming of this doco and we had chat as he ran past me on a 50km training walk i was doing ...an awesome dude 👏 much respect love and peace sensing your way brother

[@benbigopossum]

Dang some nostalgia for Beau. Pre- hat retirement? Or it that a new legionnaire? Keep up the awesome entertaining content Beau

[@ASkippingRock]

The old one was blue.

[@Mattoman501]

So good! Beau is such a good addition! Nice work Beau

[@mikemoloney]

I love Beau

[@harrygrimley4352]

This made me cry. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@TheFabled1]

Here because Beau sent me

[@meganhamlyn1694]

Heartwarming and heartbreaking story

[@CanadianSledDog]

Such a great series. This is so similar to what's going on in my own country. We have the absurd task of stopping a handful of very powerful people from cutting down the last old growth in the country just because it's there. We have the most trees outside Siberia, but they want to cut down the last of the old growth.

[@rschreck876]

Yes Beau!

[@northwall9243]

Beau's just the bloody best. Those stats were horrendous, gotta change something eh.

[@Gabao23]

Very interesting and informative 👍🏻

[@szxnv]

BEAU!

[@leepizarro]

My heart is broken

[@me282uk]

As an outdoor and environmental educator, it's important that we don't oversimplify for the aid of evoking an emotional response, what is a deeply complex problem with no "right" answer. The cutting down a tree with the aim of using the timber as a resource seems like a simple act, but it spiders webs off in different directions connected to reasoning, decisions, repercussions, constantly looping around, all of which have both positives and negatives that affect the planet and the human lives where we stand. When building your opinions on it, just remember, it's not as simple as the short slogan someone puts on a banner.

[@GEORGINA1013]

💚💚💚💚💚

[@asidelnik]

Just saw a facebook post of a successful startup founder in a room full of her new books and I asked myself, WHY? Answer: so she can add "Author" to her list of titles.😢

[@cindystechschulte1487]

Keep going! What can we do to help?

[@brightlightdun]

😢😢😢

[@kathleenomalley7838]

Wouldn't the paper industry have better profits using BAMBOO as their product source as opposed to harvesting trees? I know this is a rhetorical question? I just believe we need to put pressure on the logging and paper industry to look outside the box for alternative solutions.

[@ccrtv6198]

✨🌎NE PLANET 🌍 NE PEOPLES 🌎NE PHUTURE 🌀

[@DS-qc7pg]

Australian government is allowing that aren't they

[@pleasejustletmebeanonymous6510]

According to these videos, they're actually subsidizing it. Although, it sounds like it's at the territory level, and the justification is that it brings jobs to the region. What Beau said was spot on. There's way too much whining in environmentalism. Logging obviously causes problems, but it also solves problems for a lot of people. No one wants logging, they want jobs. This type of activity is never going to stop if no alternative solutions are offered.

[@liamoconnor6914]

In Australia, each state is responsible for their logging practises-this looks a little different respectively across the country, but each state has its own logging agency (in this case it’s VicForests). What’s also consistent is that each logging agency actually loses money every year, and has to be repetitively bailed out by the government to make a ‘profit’-aka the tax payer foots the bill for this industry to continue. The lack of ‘viable forests’ has seen major paper mills across Victoria close in recent years, as there simply isn’t enough timber left for harvest. What Beau said is correct, and there are already plans in place-the loggers won’t be left stranded when the native forest logging industry is eventually shut down. But it’s also a little misleading-it’s been over 100 years since these towns were ‘booming’ as a result of the timber industry, and as a result there’s actually very few jobs left. Victoria actually already gets 80% of its timber supply from plantation forests, THAT’S where the jobs are and that’s where they’ll continue to be. The remaining 20% of jobs are highly skilled workers, who can easily get a job in plantation timber, forest fire management, ecotourism or any of the number of jobs available in these forests. These films aren’t anti logging, they’re advocating for the protection of this incredibly ecologically significant region. We all need timber, it’s just WHERE and HOW we get it that’s important. Hope this helps! It’s an incredible run by Majell, good on him for highlighting these forests

[@MaRa-xb4kv]

Seeing Beau in new clothes is weird. Where’s the old button down and the 30 year old hat?

[@BeauMiles]

The Hat is nailed to the top truss of my barn Ma Ra! thanks for noticing mate (my new shirt)

[@morganthemindfulmom]

Blame it on the girls at home! He’s got two now and boy, they know how to ruin a shirt!

[@wesbennett7137]

Does a logged area get re-planted after they have logged the area?

[@katyabandow712]

often it’s just left to naturally regenerate, but if you visit the regen the old rich plant community is lost, and there are only a few species that are usually higher flammability, short lived and don’t provide as much ecosystem service

[@wesbennett7137]

@@katyabandow712 that's not correct. It's in their best interest to replant so reforestation is important to them. It's their business after all. So what is the issue... we live off the land as it was given to us to do. If they replant as much as the cut down then what is the issue?!

[@katyabandow712]

@@wesbennett7137 Not sure about other states, but in Tasmania they often do this. I am an environmental consultant and visit these areas left to naturally regenerate often. In some places in Tas, the logging companies have only a 99 year lease and so they log and then leave it.

[@wesbennett7137]

@@katyabandow712 Try tell me you dont have a house that has timber in it. It has been part of living since day 1. Trying to stop logging is short sighted and laughable. We need to encourage replanting after an area has been logged then there is no long term problem.

[@katyabandow712]

@@wesbennett7137 i agree, we can’t get rid of the logging industry - it can and should be sustainable by doing rotation of high yield, fast growing timber species. but we don’t have to log native forest. we need to improve what we have, and there’s lots of research happening now on how to increase yield in these coupes. :)

[@wadeokendall1315]

Well there’s plastic or paper

[@katyabandow712]

there’s no reason to log more native forests… and more sustainable alternatives to pulp are coming - ie hemp

[@wadeokendall1315]

@@katyabandow712 True. But people will probably protest hemp fields because of a mouse

[@bucketstromboli]

Property damage