I am doing a survey and would like to know

What do you think about chopping down our wild trees?

What you think we could we do about it?

And if you know anything about how it is affecting our enviroment?

The trees around here are not very wild, however they may well be upset.
Just 50 years ago the southern Highlands of NSW supplied all timber needs including mine timbers.
Mine timbers took the young and strong trees in very large numbers.
It did not take more than 20 years and those timbers had to come from the north coast of NSW.
Now few trees could be found if those timbers had been needed ,the future forests.
If we plant 5 trees for every one we cut down it will take 50 years to grow the forests we need just as a carbon sink.
And more than that to bring the forests back to what they had been 50 years ago.
We have need of both timber and clean air and must do so.

maybe the simple answer is, if you didn't plant it, it's not yours to cut down.

plus, as belly says, there's a lot of natural growth forest that needs to be replaced, to repair the looting that has gone on.

Clear felling of native forests is obviously no longer PC, and of course with trees being the lungs of the earth it is not real good for the enviornment.

Selective felling is better, but expensive. They'll only really do that with expensive and massive trees...eg: Kauri in NZ.

Without knocking over trees we'll run out of wood fairly swiftly, so I don't really know what options we have other than felling purposely grown plantations...that stand where once there were forests of native trees.

If you didn't plant it you don't own it - good slogan.

Like a lot of other things we've had plenty of time to plan and plant for the future, but haven't. We know what clear felling does but we keep doing it anyway.

Reading the story about Gunns in The Monthly was depressing. Not only are they decimating old growth, they're also slowly poisoning the population of Tasmania. And paying PR people squillions to say they're not.

Sustainability is a pretty simple concept, but the tree-choppers can't seem to see the forest for their bank accounts.

maybe a society that aims to be around for a long time can run pine plantations with a 10 year cycle, and also native growth forests with a 100 year cycle.