RiverFly wrote:FTas has just started harvesting the hillside from south of the green gate at the Pine Hut track, south towards Jacksons Creek. This is half the view visible from the lodge site, so I think the relationship has a long way to go.
How long ago did you object? Do you know what the process is? Do you get to hear any feedback relating to your objection?RiverFly wrote:I enquired with the Mersey district forestry manager for the facts rather than rumour, got the answer, then sent in an objection to the proposed harvest
I recently added a Clumner Bluff post to my blog that discusses the new "partial harvest" technique. In the blog entry, there is a photo of what it looks like from the side of the road. Here's a photo looking from above:tastrekker wrote:to be a partial harvest from about 200 metres beyond (south) of the gated road to Pine Hut Plain and extend approx 800 metres on either side of the road in a southerly direction.
Its sad that the best FTAS could do last year was to make $500,000 profit from cutting down our trees (and remember it is our resource they are managing!). I bet two or three eco-lodges could make more than that in profit per year, with the trees left standing and eco-systems left intact
Lets hope that FTas decide to work with CB&M and the rest of the stakeholders (us) and decide to manage this part of the forest for Tasmania, as the gateway to the WHA, in sympathy with the uses and significant Australian cultural values of the area, rather than for themselves and their own goals.
flyfisher wrote:Good luck with that lot. Lets hope that wise heads make decisions for the common good
Thanks for that RiverFly. I've now read your original post properly and I can see that you were talking about 800 metres along the road!RiverFly wrote:the 800m remark is (I assume) in relation to how far along the road they plan to log
tastrekker wrote:* The contractor is supposed to be maintaining road access throughout the operation. There may be a short wait if they are felling right beside the road but access should not be blocked for more than a few minutes. If the road has been blocked completely, it may be worth notifying the FT Mersey office.
RiverFly wrote:I have a few pics but am not sure how to post them.
RiverFly wrote:<snip> the buck does stop with the forestry managers. They are forest managers, not forest harvesters -there is a difference. I would have thought that as the resource managers, they were tasked with managing the resource for the benefit of Tasmanians, which may not always mean harvesting.
tasadam wrote:Interesting to see how it goes now that PL is gone.
Pro-logging Labor Premier Paul Lennon
NEW Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett has begun adopting a policy agenda that distances him from the Lennon years, flagging further forest protection and moving immediately to investigate an ethics commission.
"What is most encouraging is that he seems committed to dialogue, and representative dialogue, and that is something we have never had in past forest policy in Tasmania, which has carried the stamp of Paul Lennon for the past 20 years."
taswaterfalls.com wrote:As I see it we are at the extreme end of Logging at moment. Its crazy...we need the 'dark greens' as you call them...To balance out the Extremely poor situation we are in, we need as much extremism from the opposite crowd to reach a happy mid ground.
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