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Mixed Messages: When a logging coupe is burned many are outraged and others say that it is necessary. Possibly the outrage is justified given the apparent waste and nowadays the increased awareness of the carbon stored in forests – nowhere more so than in Tasmania. The proposition that 60% of the biomass in a logging coupe such as this one goes up in smoke (CO2) is plausible. The notion that the landscape will repair itself is contingent upon all kinds of complex factors that never seem to be considered in holistic ways.
There are no simple answers but looking back at this coupe it is possible to say that after 10 years the biomass present now represent a relatively small portion of what was there before the fire and a smaller proportion still than when the trees were all standing.
How much timber was harvested from this coupe? That is a question that you are unlikely to get an answer to without a FOI and that is an answer in itself! The point that seems to be missed is that it is the ecology that needs managing as much as the economy. When might this project start? Who is going to initiate it?
There are no simple answers but looking back at this coupe it is possible to say that after 10 years the biomass present now represent a relatively small portion of what was there before the fire and a smaller proportion still than when the trees were all standing.
How much timber was harvested from this coupe? That is a question that you are unlikely to get an answer to without a FOI and that is an answer in itself! The point that seems to be missed is that it is the ecology that needs managing as much as the economy. When might this project start? Who is going to initiate it?
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