On the eastern side of Mt Baw Baw stand a group of some of the largest and oldest trees in Australia.
One of the logging coupes comes within 30 metres of the Whitelaw tree, and conservationists say logging and associated activities are known to kill large, old trees in the immediate vicinity of coupes because of increased wind, erosion and soil compaction from heavy machinery, root breakage and changes in local hydrology.
Victorian National Parks Association spokesperson Jordan Crook, who is an arborist, said it made no sense for the state government to allow disturbance near these exceptional trees. When trees are stressed they respond by shedding their leaves, dropping limbs and, in the worst scenarios, dying, Dr Moore said.
Tammi_Nicol So is this the Victorian Governments 'ambitious targets'. First tax electric vehicles, THEN log old growth forests! Wow!! How ambitious is that
lynlinking Vic government is really good with some things but they’re really crap with logging and conservation We’ve got hardly any old forests left they’ve decimated the Otways 😢😞
Can we just not, please? We have plenty of timber plantations for structural lumber - radiata is cranky stuff to work with, but it is plentiful and cheap. And for paper products, why not grow industrial hemp? Cutting down native forests is just spite, at this stage.
Where are the Greens now? All talk and picnic in Spring Street on a sunny day.