Trapping captured eight native species and these are listed by decreasing order of numbers captured: Swamp Rat (Rattus lutreolus), Dusky Antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii), Long-tailed Mouse (Pseudomys higginsi), Common Brush-tailed Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), Eastern Pygmy Possum (Cercartetus nanus), Little Pygmy Possum (C. lepidus), and Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Two feral Cats (Felis cattus) were also captured.

In the same five areas spotlighting detected the following species: Common Brush-tailed Possum, Common Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), Tasmanian Pademelon (Thylogale billardierii), Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps), unidentified possum and pygmy species, and unidentified bat species. Spotlight surveys also detected three nocturnal bird species, Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae), Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) and Australian Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus). The results from bat detector surveys have not yet been analysed.).

Meat-baited hair tubes attracted mostly Tasmanian Devils but also Southern Brown Bandicoots, Swamp Rats and Dusky Antechinus. Peanut-butter-baited tubes attracted only Southern Brown Bandicoots and Swamp Rats. No Long-nosed Potoroos or quolls were detected from the hair tube survey. In 2001trapping in what were to become aggregated retention coupes revealed mostly Swamp Rats, and lower numbers of Dusky Antechinus, Southern Brown Bandicoot, Long-tailed Mouse and Tasmanian Pademelon. Spotlighting revealed nothing, although two wallabies of unknown species were heard in both sites. The bat detector data are yet to be analysed.

The timing of the 2002 study meant that Dusky Antechinus were in very low numbers; however, large numbers of Swamp Rats and Long-tailed Mice were captured.

The intention was to compare this preliminary study with sampling periods after the harvesting of these two sites, to investigate how harvesting may affect abundance, localised density and the distances the animals move. However, the mammal data were considered too sparse to warrant the effort of further survey work.

During June 1998, hair tubes (meat-baited or peanut-butter-baited) were set for twenty days in ten areas to survey for the less abundant species possibly living in the area (carnivorous marsupials: devils, quolls and antechinuses, Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) and Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus).

The five areas listed above were sampled along with the following areas: Tahune Forest Reserve, coupe WR001A, Kroanna Creek Track, Bird Track (BK002A) and John’s Creek Track. Two sites that were not included in the original sampling period, WR008I and WR001E, were surveyed in January to February 2001. Trapping was conducted along cut tracks for small and medium-sized mammals for four nights at each site. Three nights of spotlighting and bat detecting were also undertaken in both areas.

A further study into the populations of small mammals on WR008I and WR001E, and the control coupe WR008J, was undertaken in August to September 2002. This more intensive survey investigated species abundances and distances moved across the sites. Trapping was conducted in two four-night trapping sessions over two weeks at each site.