Logging Industry

Moves to save Leadbeater's possum will put timber jobs at risk, Victorian government told

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Originally published at: 

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/moves-to-save-leadbeaters-possum-will-put-timber-jobs-at-risk-victorian-government-told-20170517-gw746y.html

The Andrews government has been told it must choose between saving Victoria's endangered emblem the Leadbeater's possum or hundreds of timber industry jobs.

Victoria's logging industry faces supply dilemma

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Originally published at: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA0squdhX_I

In 2009, 75,000 ha of Victoria’s forests were burnt in the Black Saturday bushfires. Over a 3rd of that was forests earmarked for the logging industry. The prospect of bushfires are never calculated into long term planning or log contracts with mills. Couple this situation with other bushfires and a history of overlogging and the result is unprecedented environmental destruction and habitat loss, but also a huge shortfall in the logs available to the logging industry.  

In 2013 the Heyfield mill knew their supply would be cut back in 2017.

Heyfield timber mill: Time to face forest facts

Monday, April 3, 2017

Originally published at: 

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/opinion/heyfield-timber-mill-time-to-face-forest-facts/news-story/d13074b3b8e70ea1bc4292b6386dde6b

THE people of the Latrobe Valley are right to be dismayed by the looming fate of the Australian Sustainable Hardwoods mill at Heyfield.

Gippsland has long been the centre of the hardwood timber industry in Victoria, and the hardwood timber industry has long played a major part in Gippsland’s development and in its prosperity.

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