Perhaps trees are sacred - especially the big old ones.
http://www.dabase.org/trees.htm

Remember the revenge of the Ents in The Lord of the Rings.

The only comment I have for this subject is, it's a lot more convenient to travel to Victoria than it is to travel to Canada, but the result is the same!

Dan

From 2003 to 2009, in seven short years, Victorian Labor oversaw wildfires burn more than 3,365,000 hectares of Victoria. The death toll for birds, mammals and reptiles based on CSIRO estimates for the 2003 fires, is in the order of 400 to 500 million.

One might expect, if Premier Dan was truly concerned about the environment, he would not have allowed DELWP to slide on the 5 percent fuel reduction burn target recommend by the 2009 Black Saturday Royal Commission. In 2017-18, the department managed fuel reduction operations on one percent of the public forest estate. This is only 20 percent of the recommended level.

By demolishing the native forest industry, Premier Dan takes away a key element of the on-ground fire fighting force. Premier Dan's alleged concern for things environmental seem somewhat hollow, given the risk of devastating wildfires is increased by higher forest fuel levels and loss of critical plant and skilled operators.

Instead, the future of regional Victorian, fringe Melbournians and the state's precious wildlife and old-growth is dictated by a Russian roulette computer model and the Safer Together slogan.

In 2003, it was estimated that the Australia wide bush fires released 190 million tonnes of CO2. Assuming Victoria owned about a third of the total, the 1 million plus hectares of Victorian fires would account for 63 MILLION TONNES. That is about 37 years worth of carbon releases Premier Dan attributed to harvesting.
Another million hectares plus in 2006-07 and half a million in 2009 and an inability to manage mega fire risk, has released over 90 million tonnes of CO2, with out all the other smaller bush fires.

In 2009, most of the remaining old-growth Mountain Ash, was killed by bushfires. What is Premier Dan going to do to stop the allegedly protected, "rare and precious old-growth" being incinerated by a less than competent environment minister?

"By 2030, Victoria will be home to an area of native forest protected from logging that is larger than the entire land mass of Tasmania." Heads up Premier Dan, at the rate of devastation of forest and biodiversity Victorian Labor governments have set over the last 17 years, there will be very little of the "habitat of our rarest native species" left.

Nowadays, they're doing to the ground what they used to do to the forrests, simply tear it all up !