The Tumut and Tumbarumba region in southern New South Wales is home to Australia’s largest timber plantation. Right now, its planting season and the program is bigger than ever before.  More than 100 crew members are out in cold, wet and sometimes snowy conditions, to plant more than 6.5 million trees by hand between May and late August.  Silviculture supervisor for Forestry Corporation Anna Faulder said the program had doubled in size.  “The last few years and the next few years will be massive programs because of our fire recovery,” Ms Faulder said.  “We usually plant less than three million trees a year, so this is a big increase.”  …During the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, about a third of the plantations were lost in the fire.  Forestry Corporation’s Snowy regional manager Dean Anderson said it was like nothing he had seen before.