Once again summer has arrived, and once again assorted gurus pop out of the…errr… woodwork to warn us about the danger of bushfires, and all the things we can do to protect ourselves and reduce fire hazards: make sure the pump works, clean out the gutters, shift the firewood off the front porch, give the …
The DSE tender process to find buyers for burnt trees has had “insufficient take up of the resource through expressions of interest”. They are quickly trying to sell off – at a good price we’d hope – half a million m3 of alpine ash sawlog trees and 750,000 m3 of chip log trees over the …
For each gallon of fossil fuel we burn in cars and other motors, 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material is required. The study conducted at the University of Utah by Ecologist Jeff Dukes, also calculated that the amount of fossil fuel burned in the year of 1997 (the year used in the study) totaled …
A new study will give a special insight into how people react emotionally to forestry. That is – clearfelling native forests (we would have thought this was already obvious). A joint project between Forestry Tasmania, Melbourne University and the Bureau of Rural Sciences will identify what the community thinks are acceptable ways to log native …
Industry demands public money to salvage logs. Another logic-lacking media release put out by the logging industry in July called for more and faster access to log all the burnt forest. They claimed they needed government assistance to cart the logs long distances to their mills and maybe even money to help with storage (they …
I drove over the fire-fried country between East Gippsland and the North East in early August, six months after the summer fires, with Kevin Thiele, EEG’s Public Officer, Botanist and Computer Trouble Shooter. The worst effected areas were very sorry looking – miles and miles of grey burnt earth, unidentifiable understorey-that-was, black trunks and bare …
A Newspoll survey has shown that forest logging is not only turning tourists away but destroying the very thing most people holidaying in East Gippsland would want to experience – old growth forests and rainforests. Results from a Newspoll survey in late August show that the forests of East Gippsland are potentially as important in …
he endangered Long-footed Potoroos have been discovered by an EEG volunteer in mixed rainforest scheduled for clearfelling in the Bonang River headwaters on the Errinundra Plateau. This should give the area short term protection. Ben, an intrepid, winter-hardy EEG volunteer, discovered the animals during a survey of the forest islands in the clearfelled catchment in …
A five-day vigil at the Eden chipmill in mid-July has proven conclusively that the woodchipping industry does not use waste wood. Members of the Bega based Chipstop group documented: a.. an average of 132 trucks per day entering the chipmill. b.. of those almost two thirds were carrying mature age native forest or old growth. …
In the never-ending search for new and innovative ways to make a buck from our native forests, one enterprising shipping company decided to try sending a load of Gippsland and WA woodchips to Italy for fuelling a biomass-burning electricity plant. After enquiries, we were told that it was a financial disaster and they lost out …
