Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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1.0KPulp mill stink spelled the end of Gunns
Pulp mills stink. To convey how badly, in 2007, a former CSIRO scientist, Warwick Raverty, smuggled a sample of the odour, soaked...
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The Ghost Woodchip Carriers Of Tasmania
Above is a screenshot from the TasPorts Bell Bay Shipping Schedule page along with a photo of the woodchip bulk carrier ‘Globulus’...
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Liberals undermining future of Triabunna community. Download Dissenting Report …
The State Liberal Government is in damage control following the release of the Parliamentary report into the sale of the Triabunna export...
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Lapoinya: Has FT found the way?
Image: from the Lapoinya community’s blogspot here Forestry Tasmania’s (FT) controversial small native forest coupe in the Flowerdale river catchment area at...
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Lapoinya: You just could not make this stuff up …
Lapoinya consultation photos … Stewart Hoyt, tour leader, explaining Man ferns abundant in coup Lapoinya consultation photos … Stewart Hoyt, tour leader,...
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The disastrous economics of the past 50 years …
Review: The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd. by Quentin Beresford. Sydney: NewSouth, 2015 Reviewed by John Biggs Despite its title, this...
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Test-Tube trees
Serious design fault discovered in clonal tree plantations … Plantation e.nitens and e.globulus (bluegum) trees grown in Tasmania are highly developed ‘synthetic’...
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Lapoinya: It just makes no sense …
*Pic: Lapoinya forest manfern … DR CON RHEE … The Lapoinya 68-hectare coupe is one of the last pieces of undisturbed wet...
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Energy Strategy ignores the big issues
Government reports on energy policy are almost inevitably boring and full of jargon and this is certainly the case with the Tasmanian...
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Harriss Protest Bill: It works
*Pic: Premier Hodgman with the law’s architect, Resource Minister Paul Harriss … Yesterday saw the first application of Paul Harriss’ Workplaces (Protection...
