OPINION: How much do protestors know about native forestry? Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - May 4, 2023 DEAR News Of The Area, HOW many of the Knitting Nannas really understand how forests grow? Looking at a forest is a snapshot of the life cycle of that forest stand just as a snapshot of your family shows what the family looked like at a point in time. Forests change over time, some trees get bigger, others die. Fire can kill the whole stand but regeneration starts the cycle again. Animal numbers also change as the forest changes. Some animal numbers reach a maximum at certain stages of the stand’s life and then can decrease to almost zero. Animals like the koala prefer fresh growth and are common in areas logged some months earlier thriving on the new shoots. Glossy black cockatoos are very specific on individual feed trees and if those trees are left undisturbed they will continue to come back even if harvesting has occurred in the surrounding area. How many Nannas have native hardwood timber in their homes such as frames, mouldings or furniture? If they were so anti-native species harvesting, they should get rid of all this material as a real protest instead of trying to stop the next generation from appreciating the beauty of this timber. If native species harvesting is stopped we will just import more hardwood timbers from countries where harvesting controls are non-existent or not effectively enforced. All it will do is move the issue off-shore. Nannas go and talk to your local foresters and ask to be shown different areas that have been harvested over time and the impact of that harvesting on animal populations. Regards, Peter PAUNOVIC, Boambee East.
Wow.. important to bring a few facts to bring to the matter as many are lacking from this contribution. 1: Houses are almost all made from plantation softwood timber. 2: Glossy Black Cockatoo feed trees and nesting habitat across our local State Forests are being systematically destroyed by the NSW Government loggers in places such as Clouds Creek, Conglomerate, Ellis, Moonpar Tamban, Wedding Bells and Wild Cattle Creek SFs right now, . There are less than 8000 left – https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-04-20/fight-to-save-endangered-glossy-black-cockatoo/102236952 3: Koalas are most common and abundant and have the best population function in intact mature and old growth forests. They are badly stressed by industrial logging and when their preferred habitat is destroyed, degraded fragmented and turned into a Lantana infested mess by industrial logging. Koala habitat is being destroyed and degraded by NSW Government industrial logging right now at Clouds Creek, Conglomerate, Ellis, Moonpar Tamban, Wedding Bells and Wild Cattle Creek SFs right, Many of our beloved Nannas are bearing witness to taxpayer-funded and crown-mediated extinctions daily. Extinction is forever. Reply
