The reason these Red Gums are dying is not due to the timber industry it is due to the fact the forests are over populated to a point where in the current drought the tree population has become unsustainable. By locking the front gate and putting up a sign saying National Park is not the magic answer. Active management through timber Harvesting operations under strict environmental regulations is the only sensible answer to reducing the tree population to a point where the Forests can survive. These forests rely on regular flooding to survive and that hasn't happened due to the drought. Industry has been actively manageing these forests for 150 years prior to that the Aboriginal people that lived in the forests actively managed them for thousands of years now all of a sudden the greens want to shut the front gate and just let them die a slow miserable death like the trees at Yanga National Park. It has only taken 4 years of this management practice to kill the vast majority of 17,000ha of Red Gums. This must never be allowed to happen again, as the article points out if the trees at Yanga where animals the RSPCA would be prosecuting. The Greens must never be allowed to manage such a magnificent Forest again. Imagine a farmer locking 400 cows in a paddock with limited feed and water, how long would it be before they started to starve then die, the answer is they wouldn't because the farmer being a good manager would reduce the number of cows in the paddock to a point where they could survive. Thats all industry does in the forest.

Ah you have mentioned the Sacred People , the anointed people who know all .
These are the people who effectively murdered nearly 150 people in the Victorian Wildfires . These are the people who have mastered the Hype and choose to ignore the Forrest Technology first learned by the Aboriginals and indeed still practiced in some parts of our Land ; Back Burning .

Eventually it will not be safe for Greens to venture out of the Metropolitan areas of Australia , the Anti Country People Greens will eventually create a marginalized people , formally the Backbone of our Nation , the People from the Bush .

Garret and Wong the usurpers of the Bush , who by removing the CSIRO viticulture research from Mildura guaranteed the demise of that great Country Center . One day I pray they will pay .

What rot from the redgum industry deperately trying to prop up thier unsustainable busunesses. The recent NRC report indentifed up to 90% of red gum trees in actively 'managed' logged forests were also severely stressed, dead or dying. So much for you weak 'parks are the culprit' arguments. Koondrook and Werai forest were particulalrly noted. 2 of the sites heavily logged over the years

People aren't as stupid as you may think they are, they can asee through your vested interests.