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A man stands on a dirt road in a forest and puts his leg through a safety harness.
Climber Daniel Jenkins prepares safety gear ahead of a tree climb.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man tightens a safety harness around his waist.
Climber Daniel Jenkins fits a tree climbing safety harness.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man walks in a forest carrying tree-climbing equipment and a chainsaw.
Daniel Jenkins is equipped and ready to climb.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A man uses rope to secure himself to a tree.
Climber Daniel Jenkins makes his way up an alpine ash.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man is pictured working high up in a tree.
Changing weather conditions can pose challenges for tree climbers.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A group of seed capsules piled on the ground.
Alpine ash seeds pile up in a sack.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A man climbs down the trunk of a tall ash tree in a ferny forest area.
Climber Daniel Jenkins scales down an alpine ash tree that's more than 50 metres tall.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

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A large tree stands tall in a forest under blue sky.
An alpine ash towers above 50 metres at Mount Wills.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

An aerial picture of burnt forest.
Burnt ash forest in eastern Victoria.(Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)

An aerial photo of a burnt forest that's all brown.
Charred ash forest in eastern Victoria. (Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)

A woman stands beneath charred ash trees and looks up.
Caitlin Cruikshank at Sassafras Gap alongside 17-year-old alpine ash trees destroyed by fires.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A large burnt-out log among long grass.
The forests have had little time to recover between bushfires. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A woman looks up at dead trees.
DELWP's Caitlin Cruikshank visits Sassafras Gap which was hit by bushfires.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A helicopter flies low over dead ash trees.
A helicopter during reseeding efforts. (Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)

Plant seeds sit in a large sack.
More alpine ash seeds are needed to meet the pace required for forest regeneration.(Supplied: DEWLP)

A number of sacks filled with seeds sit on a floor.
Bales of collected alpine ash seeds.(Supplied: DELWP)
A number of large plastic containers sit on storage shelves.
DELWP has a seed storage at Laverton. (Supplied: DELWP)

A man puts his hand in a container which contains thousand of tiny ash seeds.
Thousands of tiny ash seeds in store will one day be sown to help regenerate the state's burnt forests. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man in a hat and scarf smiles at the camera with a park in the background.
Forest Solutions director Owen Bassett warns Victoria needs more seeds to keep ash forests alive.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A map is laid out across a table.
Owen Bassett worries about the changes he is seeing across the landscape.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A woman stands on a remote dirt road with a pair of binoculars.
DELWP's Carolyn Slijkerman looks to the alpine ash trees fit for seed harvesting at Mount Wills.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A man is suspended high up in a tree.
Ash trees are some of the tallest flowering plants in the world.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A plane flies over devastated ash forest.
There are calls to expand Victoria's aerial sowing fleet.(Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)

A hand holds a bunch of tree seed pods.
It's a big task to replenish Victoria's seed bank capsule by capsule.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A close up of a man cutting a seed capsule with scissors.
Seeds are harvested by hand. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

An aerial view of mountains quite bare after bushfires destroyed canopy trees.
Charred ash forest stretches into the horizon above Wheelers Creek.(Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)

White flowers can be seen in ash trees from the sky.
A flowering ash forest. (Supplied: Owen Bassett Forest Solutions)
An aerial view of a tall flowering tree.
It takes about 20 years for ash trees to develop seeds for regeneration.(Supplied: DELWP)

A man holds a fresh twig with seed capsules.
Seed capsules freshly harvested from an alpine ash tree. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man wearing hi-vis and a helmet inspects some branches.
Michael Hansby looking for alpine ash seeds.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A close up of a man's hand cutting seed capsules onto a white mat.
Cutting seed capsules.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
Seed capsules sit on a white mat.
Seed capsules collected from an alpine ash tree at Mount Wills.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A man in orange and blue workwear stands in a forest.
Michael Eddy says climbing trees to help regenerate eucalypt forests is rewarding work.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A man carrying tree climbing equipment through long grass.
Tree climber Daniel Jenkins gets to work.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man stands next to a tree with climbing equipment.
Daniel Jenkins says preparation is key before a climb.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man stands next to a tree with climbing equipment.
Daniel Jenkins gets ready to start climbing.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)
A man carrying a chainsaw is high up in a tree.
Finding accredited climbers like Daniel Jenkins is not always easy. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

Two men look into the forest, one looks through binoculars
Daniel Jenkins and Michael Eddy scout an alpine ash in Victoria's High Country.(ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A young tree stands in a landscape that was hit by fire
A two-year-old sapling that was aerially sown at Sassafras Gap begins to break through the undergrowth. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

A woman looks up at dead trees while standing next to young saplings
DELWP's Caitlin Cruikshank looks up at charred 17-year-old alpine ash trees as new growth sprouts besides her. (ABC Goulburn Murray: Erin Somerville)

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