Heritage Tasmanian forest saved

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Plantation timber is the future of the timber industry in the same way that fish farms are the future of the fishing industry, renewables are the future of the electricity industry and national parks and natural experiences are the future of tourism. The old ways can't work any more. Time to look to the future, not the past. My opinion.

Sent from my D1 using overweight hamsters.

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Pretty much all structural hardwood comes from old growth, pocket logged. radiata pine and bluegum are used primarily for paper, the good pine logs for structural pine

Responsible logging of old growth should be continued, its the only source of good quality timber, unless you use other stuff, like LVL, but that has other environmental downsides

Best bet would be to get people to stop consuming and aim for a subsistance living, but here we are, sitting at our PC, burning up electricity, driving our fossil fuelled vehicles around:D

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

Mick we should add that also that plantations have to operate without using poison to kill the native fauna and the industry without pollute the environment and the rivers.

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Yep, gotta let that bracken fern, ragwort, blackberries etc grow naturally:)

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Pretty much all structural hardwood comes from old growth, pocket logged. radiata pine and bluegum are used primarily for paper, the good pine logs for structural pine

Responsible logging of old growth should be continued, its the only source of good quality timber, unless you use other stuff, like LVL, but that has other environmental downsides

Best bet would be to get people to stop consuming and aim for a subsistance living, but here we are, sitting at our PC, burning up electricity, driving our fossil fuelled vehicles around:D

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Ha, that's true, although my tablet is 50% solar powered.

Sent from my D1 using overweight hamsters.

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Yep, gotta let that bracken fern, ragwort, blackberries etc grow naturally:)

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All that invasive plants are were the "smart man" have upset the balance in the ecosystem.
Perhaps you are in favor of using heavy chemicals and poison the soils, not me, I am not following the recommendations of Monsanto and the other chemical manufacturers.

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

All that invasive plants are were the "smart man" have upset the balance in the ecosystem.
Perhaps you are in favor of using heavy chemicals and poison the soils, not me, I am not following the recommendations of Monsanto and the other chemical manufacturers.

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But that's the problem, they are there and without control, they will run rife, I spent alot of time in both natural and plantation areas around home. again you have alot of ideals, but unless you are out there manually removing these noxious weeds, along with many others, they need to be controlled

Round-up is your friend:)

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Originally Posted by Vern

Round-up is your friend:)

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Or buy a goat.

So what about the re growth they say can't be logged again if its re growth then Its not old growth and should not be heritage listed in the first place. There's bush my father harvested in the in the late 70s to the mid 80s you could drive throu now and and wouldent have a clue. sustainable forestry can be achieved but your eyes have to be open along with your mind

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Originally Posted by 460cixy

So what about the re growth they say can't be logged again if its re growth then Its not old growth and should not be heritage listed in the first place. There's bush my father harvested in the in the late 70s to the mid 80s you could drive throu now and and wouldent have a clue. sustainable forestry can be achieved but your eyes have to be open along with your mind

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Please don't put 'old growth' into context and the 100 year turn around in which a lot can be restored

Also I look forward to the beautiful noxious weeds overtaking the natural bush without any weed control

But please, keep the ideals coming, just leave the pragmatic thoughts out of it




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Sorry ile just use emotive bs next time and leave the common sence out of it :oops2: