Tarkine: So this is The New Forest Industry … I feel sick (2)

This is Take 2 on the Tarkine, more pictures some pretty some pretty awful.

I looked up the boundaries of the Tarkine on a couple of websites and found that it is between the Arthur River in the North, the Pieman River in the South the Coast in the West and the Murchison Highway in the East.

Well we crossed the South Arthur and drove towards the Frankland River for quite a while to get these photos and as you can see from the images in the download show, the North end of the Tarkine is Reserved for Logging.

Sure there is quite a large area in the Savage River National Park reserved and lots of Button Grass and Coastal Scrub along the coast that is saved but the North end will be trashed soon.

See the google logging overlay for more details.

I want to know also why FT aren’t planting mixed species back where they are taking out mixed species. It seems ridiculous that they have to “free bait” and shoot the animals even before they have burnt the logging waste.

From what we saw the native forest that is there is very capable of growing in the presence of native animals, if the plantations can’t stand a little chomping then they should not be there.

Part 1: HERE
Tarkine Show 2.pdf