How hard would it be to find suitable land for a hardwood plantation? Clear some native forest perhaps? What of the fauna in plantations? Are they somehow better protected than those in native forests where every harvest plan has exclusion zones and is sensitive to fauna presence? What is so wrong with current native forestry which reduces fuel loads, ensures minimal disturbance to native fauna, provides employment in regional Australia, and provides access and firefighting expertise and machinery in times of bushfire?

Hi Joe
Growing hardwood plantations is an apparently logical solution, but finding about 3000 suitable hectares each year for 50+ years in Victoria alone, would be nigh on impossible. Can you suggest WHERE that area of already cleared land that would grow quality sawlogs could be found, let alone finding the FUNDS to buy/lease and plant it and protect it from wallabies and fire?