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The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) is responsible for managing public land in Victoria. The land comprises mostly national park and state forest tenures but also includes a range of other Crown land tenures. The broad goal of this study was to provide an event-driven set of carbon accounts for Victoria's publicly managed land. An event-based model increases the understanding of fluxes in carbon stocks and informs the policy development process in areas relating to managing carbon as an asset. The study aims to discuss the method and its imperfections in addition to investigating the results from running the model. Variation in carbon stocks across the state is virtually unknown, with most past investigations occurring within the actively harvested, productive forest. This paper constitutes the first attempt at modelling carbon on all publicly managed land in Victoria. The study …