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Peace in Tasmania’s forests? : Comments
By Mark Poynter, published 17/6/2010Renewed efforts to address Tasmania’s forestry conflict must overcome the uncompromising fervour which sustains it.
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@ "the figures I gave are from the table on p16. I.E. 929,000 Ha"
You must be looking at a different report - p.16 of Criterion 1 State of Forests Report 2008, gives no such figure that I can see.
@ "Old growth logging is still rampant."
Oh that's right, you can't argue the numbers so you just change the definition.... why am I not surprised.
As I said, old growth logging is a non-issue, the greatest threat is and always has been fire. Over 100,000 ha of Vic old growth forest was killed by fire in 2003 and 06 fires (State of Forests Report 2008, Criterion 1, p.10). Substantial further areas killed on Black Saturday.
@ "Oh, so mensuration now has an ecological component?"
If the annual harvested wood volume is x and the total wood growth of the whole forest is 9 times x, the harvesting is easily sustainable and the ecological component is also proportionally growing isn't it?
@ "You also assume .... the premise that the sole means of regeneration is through catastrophic fire events which is a demonstrably false premise as I pointed out earlier"
Perhaps you need to study Australian ecology.
@ "During 2006-2007 a total of 6,250 Ha of native forests was logged across Victoria. I'll bet that most of that had never been logged before ..... "
Well lets see, most harvesting in Central Victoria is fire regrowth which may or may not have been logged before, but has surely been heavily disturbed.
In Gippsland, there is a significant area of thinning of regrowth from past logging or fire. So your bet is probably wrong ...