Feature Article: EEG VS VicForests

In August this year, Environment East Gippsland took the bold legal action of suing the government's logging monopoly, VicForests. This case is a first for Victoria.

EEG successfully had the Supreme Court place a temporary injunction (stop) on VicForests' plans to clearfell Brown Mountain's remaining unprotected old growth until the trial. The trial will be heard in March 2010.

We believe we have very strong arguments and, if
successful, the outcome could possibly alter the way all public forests are managed.Here's what pushed us to that point.

Feature Article: 600 Years Old!
In March this year, it was confirmed that an old growth tree that was cut down on Brown Mountain was older than Christopher Columbus and was young when Joan of Arc rode around France. The radiocarbon dating results from the New Zealand laboratory showed there was a 68% chance that the piece of wood EEG took from the stump was growing between 1435 and 1490 AD (and that wasn't from the centre of the stump).

The tree was 550-600 years old!

Feature Article: Brown Mountain-The Fight is On!
The immense trees that have sheltered and raised hundreds of generations of owls and gliding possums are now being hacked down by VicForests. The understorey of tree ferns and waratahs, twining silkpod and musk daisy bush is being crushed into the mud by 40 tonne dozers.

Feature Article: Old Growth Games
After the 2006 elections, John Thwaites and Steve Bracks promised to protect East Gippsland's old growth while not reducing what was there for loggers to cut - an impossible task.

Contents
Old Growth Protection Games 1
Jill's Jottings, Potoroo online, New email 2
Carbon Rich Forests, Gunns Dumped, Skills Shortage 3
State of our Forests Report, Plantations Needing Workers, 1080 Trials End 4
Strzelecki Deal Dudd 5
Endangered Species Suffer from Spin, World's Top 100 6

Trying to mix Water and Woodchips 7
Shorts 8

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