Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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Leatherwood crisis eases
THE Forests & Forest Industry Council has announced that Forestry Tasmania is to defer 2 coupes in the Huon district and 16...
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The world is watching
THE dressed-up sustainability certification that is the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) seems to be coming unstitched for the main players in the...
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John Howard’s promise
Media Release 10 April, 2006 Future economic opportunities for Australia from the sale of it forest products overseas are threatened unless the...
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Harry Seidler: something better
THE life of Austrian-born, Jewish Australian architect Harry Seidler, who recently died aged 82, was publicly commemorated this week. The service featured...
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883Until it’s gone
Earlier this month, Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands was identified as one of 20 locations around the world where it was...
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Pesticides and fruit and veg
ARTICLES on this matter have recently appeared in The Guardian newspaper: Is Organic worth it?: www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/O..1743666.00.html And Choice magazine: Pesticides in our...
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Fox believer
MY wife and I have been members of the Wildcare group, Friends of Lillico Penguins, for three years. On Monday evenings during...
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Fox sceptic
SOME biologists are convinced that foxes have established in Tasmania. In 1998 a fox travelled on a freight ferry across Bass Strait...
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Beatles, Brahms and Blackbirds
ALTHOUGH I write the “One the Wing” bird column in The Mercury, this is not my day job. I’m actually a sub-editor...
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My call to the spray complaints unit
I called the Spray Complaints Unit in Tasmania today and spoke to Peter Lee Archer. I asked a number of questions related...
