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SHEAS NOB STATE FOREST, Australia – The ecologist drove his weathered pickup truck through thick and shady eucalyptus forest. But as he reached a ridgeline, the woodland suddenly gave way to a sunbaked clearing of barren dirt and splintered wood the size of a football field.