No more hiding behind ‘masking strips’ and boom-gates, Google Earth lifts the horizon!
Do you remember where all those pine logs and those pine posts came from?
Does this look like a sustainably managed landscape to you, a well managed pine sawlog resource?
You don’t need a forestry degree from Canberra or Melbourne University to realise that the resource is just about gone.
Federal money was spent to plant these pine trees; would be interesting to see how much net volume and quality sawlogs is being grown down there.
The ratio of log diameter, average log quality recovery per hectare, butt-log, pruned sawlog , pulp butt-log , pulp head-log, age spread, volume spread etc …
Evan Rolley, Bob Gordon, Hans Drielsma, Kim Creak, Steve Manson, Bryan Farmer, Paul Smith, … and who else should be responsible for having been involved in the stewardship of the publicly owned Pine and Hardwood sawlog resource?
Please don’t say as an excuse:” Ahhhh, they where all planted within a few years, therefore we had to log and cash them in a very short time frame.”
World’s best resource management? Come on, let’s look at the facts.
From google:
You have been sent a picture of the earth taken with Google Earth (http://earth.google.com).
Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in photographic detail.
This is not like any map you have ever seen.
This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country.
