Domino effect if logging industry falls
A disturbing article was placed in last week’s Magnet “calling for an end to logging in the South East native forest”.
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The article was deliberately aimed at trying to promote this ludicrous idea that if you get rid of logging you will automatically protect the forests and all the flora and fauna contained therein.
For those that haven’t had the time to look about them, or realise the carnage of animals and plants every summer, the most unprotected piece of property across the Australian landscape are unfortunately national parks, despite us taxpayers paying around $60/hectare annually for that protection.
How can the Greens promote protection when they don’t appear to have a clear policy of wildfire management, probably the number one killer of flora and fauna in Australia every year?
As an example there is a critically endangered species down in Victoria called the Leadbeaters possum, that was nearly wiped out in 2009 when it lost 2/3 of its habitat and population, due to wildfire.
The Greens immediately forgot about that event and said that logging had to stop in the remaining 1/3 to “protect” the species.
Nothing has changed, because in this article, these same sort of people declare that some land (that may not be suitable to a real live quoll) is quoll habitat and should be protected.
No mention of feral animal management and “best practice” fire mitigation strategies.
No mention of any other overarching landscape management policy.
Just get rid of the loggers, lock it up, and it will be sweet!
These people have a single agenda of stopping working forests.
Eden has nearly the worst socio-economic rating in the state currently, and that's with the timber industry. We should clearly make it to last without it.
The fallout from that in the Eden region will be the loss of 150-plus diect jobs and will almost certainly create a domino effect on a lot of other businesses.
Allan Richards
Blue Ridge Hardwoods Eden
Same old anti arguments from Greens
As a long-term resident of the Eden and Nullica area, I wonder what new evidence Lee Rhiannon gathered, as she came up with the same policy position the Greens always have – end native forest logging.
I have checked with people who have been around longer than me and no-one can remember spotted tail quoll being in the Nullica area.
It seems their love of poultry resulted in them almost being trapped, shot and poisoned to extinction in this area.
If the Nullica forest, last logged in 1974, is quoll habitat, there are still a few hundred-thousand hectares in South East NSW suitable for the quolls, while this piece of forest regenerates.
If you end native forest logging you would close two of Eden’s major employers - Blue Ridge Hardwood and South East Fibre Exports – plus many other small businesses that rely on these industries.
So Greens go away and leave our struggling town alone and don’t stop people that want to work.
At least this time around, I hope Rhiannon’s trip costs me less than the one in 2013 when I was told she hired a 10-seater aircraft from Canberra to take her local cronies on a flying visit over the forests.
I have been told politicians should only hire an aircraft that is of sufficient size for them and their staff.
If what I am told is true, taxpayers (including me while I still have a job that Rhiannon wants to get rid of) footed the bill for an aircraft twice the size so she could pick up some of the same anti-logging crew at Moruya that were with her this trip.