the eastern ranges were originally covered by a mosaic of wet forest, dominated by 90-metre-tall mountain ash ("eucalptus regnans") and cool temperate rainforest of myrtle beech and tree ferns. drier mixed forest of messmate ("eucalyptus obliqua"), peppermint ("e. radiata") and mountain grey gum ("e. cypellocarpa") were more common in the foothills of the western strzeleckis.