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18th June 2012, 09:00 PM #256SENIOR MEMBER
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I beg to differ Andrew. I love old growth forest,I love looking at it ,I love to walk through it, I love to smell it, I love to watch the animals in their native habitat unspoiled by people only concerned with the dollar or some craft that only concerns the human race at the expense of all other critters soon to be extinct not to mention the ones we've already driven into the abyss.
Leave Old Growth Forest to those that really appreciate it's worth, the little folk that really know how to use it.
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14th August 2012, 07:51 PM #257
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15th August 2012, 10:54 PM #258SENIOR MEMBER
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Makes yer heart swell with pride, all those sticks making their way to the New York Times news print.So was that the loggers equivalent of Queenstown?
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18th August 2012, 03:33 AM #259
Agree for genuine old-growth forests. Leave 'em alone.
I was based in Queenie for 3 years 1987-90.
An amazing time in the most amazing place I ever set foot.
I was utterly disgusted by the stories (lies) each side of the green debate
promoted to support their side of the story. I got angry at both camps, and
to tell the truth, still am. Back then, the media was led around "pristine old
growth forests" which the Bradshaw family (sawmillers) had been logging for
80 years, on tracks the Bradshaws built.
Sawmillers are VERY selective about which trees they fell, and very careful
to cause minimum harm to the surrounds, to ensure ongoing supply of top
grade saw logs. The really big trees are useless to them - too much rot, and too hard to handle.
There is no comparison between sawmillers & the clear-felling activities of the
woodchippers.
It is to Tassies infinite detriment that the two activities are treated the same.
Very sad.
regards
Alan J
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9th October 2012, 06:43 PM #261Retired
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Now that is a different ball game, I have lots of time for the way things were then when men were man.
I worked at Boyer newsprint back in the late sixtys and have known a few old fellows that worked back in the old days logging like this sorry to say most have now left us, There is nothing wrong with logging I am all for it but it was the wood chipping that stuffed it up for everyone.
Good bye Gunns good bye but once again I feel sorry for the workers but I have known for many many years it was going to come to and end.
regards Bob
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