After the illegal logging of the Snowy National Park last summer, the public was promised a full investigation and outcome. But the joke now goes: How many DSE officers does it take to do an investigation? Five. One to notice logs were stolen from 300 ha of National park, one to go “damn, we shouldn’t …
In a process to tackle the impending water crisis and secure Victoria’s water for the future, the Bracks Government has adopted every suggestion from their own experts except one – that logging be phased out of water catchments! A discussion paper was released for public comment. It was based on another document called the Water …
An investigation by the Potoroo Review has found Melbourne’s Herald Sun deploying WMD (Wanton Media Deceptions). This time their WMDs were discovered to be a couple of grubby little articles that tried to link a number of unrelated crimes to forest campaigners in the Central Highlands. It’s just another example of logging industry inspired propaganda …
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 …
You’d think every aspect of the Goolengook tale had been thoroughly chewed over. The plants, the animals, the protests, the riot, the legal wrangling, the national park proposal. But there’s one glaring question left hanging: Why did they log it? New information shows it wasn’t logs, it wasn’t jobs. Goolengook was a decoy. Potted History …
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 …
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 February, when the Snowy National Park was illegally logged during the bush fires, we immediately put in a Freedom Of Information request for all relevant documents, to determine how this could have happened. We asked for: a.. Incident Management Log, b.. Any assessments done of Park values and significant trees, before clearing c.. Maps, …
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 …
The Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) has suddenly become concerned for water catchments. It tells us that fast growing eucalypts that come back after a fire, suck up precious water and need to be cut down (all that loverly ash forest in particular). They quote science and figures that we’ve been using for years. …
