Thread: Renewable resourses

oz is already planting more trees than are being cut down.
go plant some trees your local landcare needs you

Hi echidna

Are we really planting more than we are cutting down?

Real trees I mean and not pines or eucalypt monocultures that Gunns, sorry forestry tasmania, are planting in tassie?

cheers

dazzler

Thas what I was told a few years ago.
I assume it means ALL trees but commercial trees are environmetally sound as they absorb carbon and clean the air as much as natives. They also provide alternatives to logging native forests so must be good for the native environment too!

P.s I have seen Koalas feeding in Cypress Macrocarpra.

I bought 40 acres for recreation??? purposes and am planting trees as pay back to nature.

Good on ya David.


Roddy

Originally Posted by echnidna

Thas what I was told a few years ago.
I assume it means ALL trees but commercial trees are environmetally sound as they absorb carbon and clean the air as much as natives. They also provide alternatives to logging native forests so must be good for the native environment too!

P.s I have seen Koalas feeding in Cypress Macrocarpra.

Hi Echidna,

just reread my post and it looked a little agressive, sorry. Thats interesting about the koalas in the Cypress.

Something I found amazing after the canberra fires was that areas that had been planted with cypress 40years ago and were a monoculture, with no gums, had been destroyed but slowly after some rain the eucy was coming back.

"Were still here you &*^^&*^s" is what they seemed to be saying.....very good to see.

cheers


dazzler

no offense taken at all dazzler

What Bob said: join your local tree planting or land care group. I'm not in our local land care group (my back is well past its use by date as far as digging holes with a bar and shovel is concerned ) but I'm in my local rural fire brigade so have helped to save a few trees and have watered freshly planted trees.

Mick

My 5 cents worth:

Working on an oil rig here.....I ease my conscience in various ways. Cut down 6 Pinus Radiatas in my garden recently and replaced them with natives. Also give a fair bit of loot to a couple of environmental organizations and help out with planting on a local nature reserve.

I have concerns about the huge tracts of land being turned over to blue gum plantations....in terms of maintaining biological diversity theyre only slightly better than pine plantations.

Originally Posted by kiwigeo

I have concerns about the huge tracts of land being turned over to blue gum plantations....in terms of maintaining biological diversity theyre only slightly better than pine plantations.

Down our way the bluegums plantations are planted on open farmland and while they dont create biological diversity like a mixed species native bush they remove the logging pressure from our native bush. Seems a shame that they're converting high quality dairy farmland to plantations.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Down our way the bluegums plantations are planted on open farmland and while they dont create biological diversity like a mixed species native bush they remove the logging pressure from our native bush. Seems a shame that they're converting high quality dairy farmland to plantations.

And they smell like cats pee.

Al :eek:

I have just ordered 200 ironbark and tallowwood seedlings from a mob in Gympie Qld. I plan to give something back. Had a vision of turning some very unproductive farming land into a miny forest environment in about 100 years.

I usually find that a little first hand knowledge & using shanks pony type research using your own eyes and powers of deduction, then listening to the older folk who remember what was where and who did what goes along way to the truth being uncovered, cause sometimes the media can be a little biased...... "unrenewable resource" thanks for the laughs cause I know you're joking with that one think you got it mixed up with "regeneration" as an everyday outcome of silviculture practices.

Well for me it's been a case of clearing the 1 and a bit acre lot that the house shed etc sit on of all non native trees ( and some dead native ones), These are being replaced by local strigybark seedlings and mannagums, and some local acacias.

I have also planted out a "grove" of blue gums, these will be used for fire wood in the future.

The exotics I have/am taking out are things like radiata pine, Pittosporum, Irish strawberry tree and umbrella trees. The last three look great in a potted garden but once the birds get a hold of the seeds they spread and choke of the native vegetation.

For me it's been a case of trying to use the exotics I've cut down for some purpose, though most are only good for fire wood - if that.

I have a few pieces that have been end-treated and drying in the shed for when I get a lathe, but generally not big enough fo milling

Himzo.