Dr Frank Nicklason West Hobart
IT APPEARS that Dr Julian Amos, chairman of the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania, made a Freudian slip in his opinion piece (The Mercury 20/1). In his article Dr Amos states; “The commercial forest sector relies on wood from production forests in the state system – owned (yes!, owned) and managed by Forestry Tasmania”. I was one of Syd Dwyer’s (Mercury Letters 20/1) “scruffy protesters” who remain “malcontent” with the way our publically owned state forests are being managed, generally, and specifically in the Upper Florentine Valley. Alongside me was a spectrum of “unkempt” society including other health professionals, students, young parents and children, elderly people, teachers and academics, writers, visitors from interstate and overseas and at least one veterinarian.
