Tasmania's Woodchip Counter for 2005
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Nearly 20,000 hectares of native forest are clearfelled and burnt each year in Tasmania. | ||||
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Every year 15 to 20 MILLION TONNES of vandalised forest called logging waste is burnt. This is Tasmania's contribution to Global Warming. | ||||
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Tasmania exports more old growth and native forest woodchips than all the other Australian states combined. | ||||
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Tasmania has by far the largest density of Log Trucks on any roads in Australia. | ||||
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TASMANIA
IN THE WORLD NEWS
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ABC
4 Corners
LORDS OF THE FORESTS Program Transcript PLUS... Interview with Evan Rolley • Interview with David Leaman on the Water Issues • Interview with Paul Lennon • Interview with John Gay • Interview with Naomi Edwards regarding Forestry Tasmania finances |
CLEARFELLING & WOODCHIPPING in TASMANIA
by Graham Green, Timber Workers for Forests Inc. May 2003 (PDF 108k)
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Tasmania's timber workers for forests have put out for public comment a proposal [HERE] "Blue Print for a Sustainable Speciality Timber Industry" December 18, 2003. Timber workers for forests are proposing a Speciality Timber Commission, created under an act of parliament, to manage 12 percent of Tasmanian state forests rich in special timbers including leatherwood, myrtle, sassafrass, blackwood and celery top pine. Public comment is called.
THE TARKINE IS A GONDWANA TASMANIAN ANCIENT RAIN FOREST.
• SOME NEWS STORIES BELOW •
| BIGGEST WILDERNESS RAINFOREST IN AUSTRALIA TO BE LOGGED |
GREENS UP THE ANTE TO SAVE RED MYRTLE | ONE LOG WORTH $25,000 WHEN USED SENSIBLY
A NATIONAL OUTCRY | WHEN GOOD NEWS MEANS A SLOW DEATH | WILDERNESS SOCIETY
"THEY USE MY WORK TO SELL WOODCHIPS"
"Forestry Tasmania's sponsorship of the Wood Trust and Wood Design Collection was tarting up the reality."
Forestry
Tasmania criticised at Senate committee
~ Reproduced from ABC NEWS report 9 October 2003
A former Tasmanian forestry employee has given evidence to a Senate Committee in Canberra criticising the state's logging industry.
Bill Manning, a former auditor with the Forest Practices Board, said his old employer is "hopelessly compromised" by an industry riddled with cronyism and corruption.
A forester of 32 years' experience, Mr Manning's explosive evidence to the Senate hearing painted Tasmania's forestry industry as largely unsupervised and unregulated, negligent and subject to corruption.
He told Senators standards were dropping and that the regulatory framework is in "freefall".
He said sources within Forestry Tasmania had told him bonuses were paid in exchange for forest practices plans favourable to loggers.
"Senior staff involved in management of the plantation industry have been paying bonuses relative to maximum areas logged and thus woodchip-generated," he said.
The forestry industry culture he said was one of "bullying, cronyism, secrecy and lies".
He also alleged the chief forest practices officer instructed subordinates not to make him aware of breaches in more than 80 forest practices plans until time had elapsed for their prosecution.
Mr Manning was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate inquiry when it sat in Launceston two months ago.
The hearing was abandoned after protestors staged a sit-in.
A former Tasmanian forestry employee has given evidence to a Senate Committee in Canberra criticising the state's logging industry.
Bill Manning, a former auditor with the Forest Practices Board, said his old employer is "hopelessly compromised" by an industry riddled with cronyism and corruption.
A forester of 32 years' experience, Mr Manning's explosive evidence to the Senate hearing painted Tasmania's forestry industry as largely unsupervised and unregulated, negligent and subject to corruption.
He told Senators standards were dropping and that the regulatory framework is in "freefall".
He said sources within Forestry Tasmania had told him bonuses were paid in exchange for forest practices plans favourable to loggers.
"Senior staff involved in management of the plantation industry have been paying bonuses relative to maximum areas logged and thus woodchip-generated," he said.
The forestry industry culture he said was one of "bullying, cronyism, secrecy and lies".
He also alleged the chief forest practices officer instructed subordinates not to make him aware of breaches in more than 80 forest practices plans until time had elapsed for their prosecution.
Mr Manning was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate inquiry when it sat in Launceston two months ago.
The hearing was abandoned after protestors staged a sit-in.
When
an exasperated Mr Manning finally tried to prosecute Forestry
Tasmania, his charge books were taken from him. He was shifted elsewhere
in the public service...... THE
MELBOURNE AGE
The
nightmare began when he alleged Forestry
Tasmania had breached the Threatened Species Protection Act, the Forest
Practices Act and the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act............"Within
two weeks, the chief forest practices officer had demanded my notice books
withdrawn. My authority to lay complaints under the Forest Practices Act
was withdrawn as well." Mr Manning said the person stripping him
of his power was FPB [Forest
Practices Board] chairman, Ken Felton. Mr Felton is an executive
director of Forestry
Tasmania...... THE
SUNDAY TASMANIAN
forest
practices despots are protected from Senate scrutiny by Tasmanian government
mule - HOBART
MERCURY
This
website has NO affiliation with the Tasmanian Government
statutory corporation Forestry
Tasmania
OR any of its Forestry, Tourism and Recreation propaganda.
OR any of its Forestry, Tourism and Recreation propaganda.
Win
for northern Tasmanian couple John & Lynn Hayward
who took on the Tasmanian forestry despots in the Supreme Court under
recently introduced administrative review legislation in Tasmania that
brought it in line with the rest of Australia. The win sets a precedent
for natural justice, but the Tasmanian Government is now seeking to change
the law to nullify the win..... MERCURY
REPORT
BRINGING THE FAIR TRADING OF TASMANIA TO TASMANIAN TOURISM
and
A LIST OF TOURISM BUSINESSES THAT ENDORSE TASMANIA'S FOREST PRACTICES VIA THE TASMANIAN TOURISM COUNCIL
MORE OF..... Blowing Our Future
Pillage, Obscenity, Controversy, Civil Action, Incompatible Industries, Smoke & Fire, Fire Festival, Timber Festival,
the Spirit of Tasmania • The Great Tasmanian Scam
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THE
NATURAL CYCLE OF EVENTS IN TASMANIAN FORESTS
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Forests such as these progress through stages. Over time a bushfire
occasionally sweeps through and kills the standing trees; wattles
rapidly colonise the bare ground and dominate for a couple of decades,
then get shaded out by the fast-growing gums; later, beneath the gums
rise the shade-tolerant rainforest species with lyrical names –
sassafras, myrtle beech, celery-top and tree ferns – to form
a dense canopy about 30m high. |
2. That canopy steals so much light that the mountain ash [Eucalyptus Regnans] trees can set no new seedlings. After a couple of centuries, only the tall pioneer gums poke out from the canopy, -typically reaching up 60m. After four centuries or so, the gums gradually disintegrate and fall and other species take the rainforest to its climax stage, which can persist for centuries more until the next fire...... | |
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THE
ABOVE IS REPRODUCED FROM - DEATH OF A GIANT (80 metres +) - The
BULLETIN MAGAZINE
August 13, 2003 - Reporter BOB BEALE |
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Global
Rescue Station in Styx Valley
On November 12, 2003, GREENPEACE and THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY launched an international campaign to save Tasmania's Styx forest. Activists have constructed a tree platform, dubbed Global Rescue Station, 65 metres up one of the world's tallest trees. • SEE THE WEBSITE FOR BREAKING NEWS AND PICTURES OF THE CAMPAIGN SEE WHAT THE PRESS SAYS JAPAN TIMES • JAPAN TODAY • MERCURY-1 • MERCURY-2 • GUARDIAN-UK SOME OF THE LATEST ON FORESTRY SUSTAINABILITY NEW ZEALAND EXPERIENCE • POLLUTION KILLS KELP AND SOME MIND BLOWING IMAGES PIX FROM THE STYX • GUNNS Ltd UNDER ATTACK BY GREENPEACE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD • MELBOURNE AGE • AGE - 2 |
SEE THE CROWD & MARCHERS AT WALK FOR CHANGE - 4 October 2003
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