Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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1.9KLilydale Water Supply: correcting a $7m error …
*Pic: Map from Forest Practices Plan MJF0189. Rocky Creek water intake red star left. First published June 12 In 2009 the well-known...
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Mining the last Old-Growth …
*Pic: Logging at Catamaran. Picture: Daniel Haley First published June 10 Some comments on my earlier article entitled The Forestry Insanity (...
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‘BirdLife Australia calls for immediate end to the Tasmanian RFA and logging on Bruny Island’
Swift Parrot. ©Eric Woehler Swift Parrot. ©Eric Woehler Wedge-tailed Eagle. ©Eric Woehler First published June 9 BirdLife Australia, Australia’s oldest conservation organisation,...
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The Forestry Insanity …
*Pic: The way we were … Picture (in selective logging days of the 1950s) of a log truck bearing an enormous trunk...
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Unofficial Dark Mofo fringe event to protest forestry firestorms
*Pic: Matthew Newton, http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/ Bob Brown Foundation will launch an event at Hobart’s Waterside Pavilion this evening. INCENDIARY features projected art and...
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The Annual Reports of the Forest Practices Authority …
*Pic: Image 1 To cut off potential arguments at the pass I have taken images 1-8 from the Annual Reports of the...
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Strategies, strategies everywhere …
First published June 2 At long last, the Tasmanian government is finally releasing its long awaited climate change strategy, the fifth such...
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‘Groom obligation to act on ongoing illegal takayna 4WDing … ‘
*Pic: Pieman Heads 4WD October 2016 … When one track is worn out … start another … Pic: MA Pic: Illegal …...
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The Logs Pile High as History Repeats Itself …
First published May 27 Piles of stacked hardwood logs appear to be on the rise in the state, but for who? What...
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How it was … When Tasmanian Trees were Trees …
*Pic: The Tasmanian Timber Trophy at the London 1862 Exhibition Detail of the Trophy labelled Tasmania with a sperm whale jaw with...
