Thread: Heritage Tasmanian forest saved

Originally Posted by 460cixy

That's a great decision it should create heaps of jobs for Tasmanians not

Where is your evidence? The forest industry in Tasmania has been a basket case for years! Job losses in the native forest industry have fallen year after year, for many years. The industry gets massive subsidies from Commonwealth and State Governments. The current peace 'deal' between the Greens and the majority of the timber industry has been the only brightness on the horizon for sometime. It has provided industry security. As garrycol said earlier: that is why "the Greenies, Conservationists and Timber Industry were in agreement".

Long as you feel warm and fuzzy about it then its ok

Originally Posted by 460cixy

Long as you feel warm and fuzzy about it then its ok

Look at my previous posts about mills that work in an environment friendly way by not polluting the rivers, planting their own trees and generate electricity at the same time and then you will have an idea of what it is the proper way of creating jobs
The idea of politicians support non eco-friendly industries have to end.

One Arthur appears to talk sense.

The other Arthur appears to talk rubbish.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

One Arthur appears to talk sense.

The other Arthur appears to talk rubbish.

I'll flip a coin.
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If it has to go through the legislative assembly it'll never get through as the Greens have just sided with labor.

I think you'll find that cool temperate rain forests weren't fire burnt by the Aboriginals; and present a very low fire risk.
Actually mismanagement by burning or grazing cattle can increase the fire risk. Just look up Masey Fawcett's Bogong Plains plots and you'll soon find that these fenced off plots didn't burn, where the grazed country around it was black. I wad up there myself only days after the 03 fires. I.e, I think we need to look past the wives tales to what actually is.

If the Tarkine isn't worth saving, then we may as well just mow down the rest of Australia.



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Now that I have stirred everyone up with the other side of the argument.

Can I say that the present add on's to the world heritage list was done, in my opinion, in a very back handed secretive manner and was well under way before the Forest Agreement was put.

At no stage was this extra ground to the list, approved by the voting public at an election.

Don't confuse the Forest Agreement with the adding of the Extra ground to that was Heritage list, they are two different issues.

To burn understory is a nightmare, to light up the top of the mountain range to the north of Hobart would only be successful in the times of extreme high fire danger in the valley's.
The only way in the early part of the last Century that this was done successfully was the Old Timer Sheppard's while moving sheep about would continually drop a match in a sag.
Before the woodchip Industry started the Wool boom was already in decline and Southern Tasmania experienced Australia's worst bushfire in February 1967 and most of this fire started in area's with a heavy understory, spreading quickly to ridge tops and open pasture. I still, to this day relive the horrors of that fire and I'm still able to show people damage done by that fire.

I dread the thought of another fortnight of those fires and as the bush around here is still growing and drying out more each year. Now it only needs one dry lightning strike on a bad 40 degree day with a hot northerly wind, it will happen again.

On the subject of bush fire shelters, I worry about collection area's for people to gather to be 'safe? from fires, they are sports grounds that they can come with their cars and bedding to wait it out. Hasn't anyone given thought to what will happen when a fire front goes through that area and wouldn't exploding cars be the worst possible scenario?
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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.

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