Tas timber industry should stop felling, says forestry expert. An international forestry expert says the Tasmanian timber industry should consider alternatives to clear felling. Variable retention involves leaving portions of forest after logging, rather than clearing entire areas. Mr Beese says the approach has reduced the animosity between the timber industry and environmental groups. Canadian ecologist Bull Beese helped introduce variable retention logging in British Colombia as a...

The statement uses the word "forest" or "forestry" 40 times, but never clarifies that within the "forest" industry there are two fundamentally different forest sectors one based on native forests and one based on plantations. Despite Australia's wood manufacturing moving so thoroughly out of native forests and into plantations, the Government has sent public native forests to the woodchippers. The statement's claim that more than 10,000 Tasmanians are employed in the forestry industry is...

Labor Party Leader Kevin Rudd recently announced that Labor would not be extending forest protection beyond the established Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement and the Regional Forest Agreement, a move widely understood to garner support from forestry unions in the lead-up to the Federal elections. The two largest surviving regions of rain forest are in Brazil and Indonesia, and these areas are being rapidly devastated by land clearing and logging. Labor Party Leader Kevin Rudd recently...

forest scientists became engrossed by a small, reclusive owl that fed on rodents in the wet, lush and steadily disappearing old-growth forests of Oregon. The result a year later was the Northwest Forest Plan, which put millions of acres of federal timber off-limits to logging. Environmental groups, looking for a legal wedge in their increasingly aggressive crusade to halt old-growth logging, soon caught wind of the concerns and sued to list the northern spotted owl among the nation's...

Native forestry is efficient and makes good use of the resource - on average a third to sawn timber, a third to residue for woodchips and a third left on the forest floor. With global warming a major issue, this approach is unsurprising - production forestry, with its vast array of wood and paper products may be the most carbon positive industry on the planet. Tricia Caswell July 30, 2007 Ahead of the federal election, the Liberal and Labor parties have set their policy sights on...

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