Hancock Watch

February 2010 Updates

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Old growth stags, superb habitat for creatures such as Powerful Owls and Yellow Bellied Gliders, bulldozed for no reason by Hancock. Hancock Watch counted at least half a dozen stags destroyed at this one location in College Creek. Also see January 2010.

February 27 2010 - Maryvale Pulp Mill Action: These people now know that Hancock and FSC are a sham.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges. Dead Strzelecki Koala found on Roberts Road, in the Macks Creek catchment.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Another stag bulldozed over by Hancock.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: And yet another stag bulldozed over inside Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Oh and here's yet another one.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Recent logging inside College Creek. This area had teemed with wildlife. Will remaining old growth survive?

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: This habitat stag is typical of the stags destroyed by Hancock in College Creek.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Retained old growth but will it survive?

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: A portion of this coupe lies inside the Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. It appears Hancock may have possibly planted out a small area of the Reserve at this location in Shining Gum, thereby converting Reserve into Plantation.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Location where some of the above conversion may have occurred. What are the exact GPS co-ordinates for the rainforest reserve? Why aren't they publicly available? Without public scrutiny, how can the company be held to account? Hancock Watch believes that GPS location 55443926E, 5735448N is inside the Reserve.Where does the coupe finish and the Reserve Start. Is there a Reserve buffer zone or will plantations be established right up to the edge of the Reserve?

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Location of plantation conversion very close or in Rainforest Reserve. One interesting question that has not been posed, is how will the Rainforest Reserve be protected when Hancock come back and log the Shining Gum in 15-20 years? How will future logging operations safeguard the Reserve (and buffers) from the impacts of plantation logging, including tree fall and machinery access?

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve, just north of Snakes Back Track. Under the Cores and Links Agreement, a once only logging operation would occur and the portion logged lieing inside the Reserve would be added to the Reserve system. This photo is facing south and is taken inside the Reserve (note regrowth). The area outside of the reserve can be clearly seen, as regeneration is almost non-existent.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve, just north of Snakes Back Track. Showing new portion of reserve in distance and non reserved land - Shining Gum plantation in foreground. This entire site was Mt Ash reforestation only a year or so ago.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. This forest area will also be logged under this secret agreement. A large proportion of the Mt Ash seen in this photo will be clearfelled and then supposedly added to the Reserve system.

 

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Snakes Back Track. Recent conversion of Mt Ash into Shining Gum which is a non-endemic species in the Strzeleckis. Essentially this is conversion and is not supposed to occur under FSC certification.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Just off Morwell River Road. More conversion of Mt Ash into Shining Gum. Many stumps at this site measured about 1m in length. Most of the retained trees measured <1m.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Just off Morwell River Road. Converted forest, showing type of Ash trees logged at this location.

 

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River headwaters: Just off Morwell River Road. Converted forest, showing type of Ash trees logged at this location.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Turtons Creek headwaters. Ex Forest Commission pine plantations recently logged in this domestic water supply for Dumbalk and Meeniyan. What herbicides will be sprayed here?

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Turtons Creek headwaters, after the pines have gone.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Gunyah Gunyah Rainforest Reserve, old growth Mt Ash.

 

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Agnes River inside Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Macks Creek recent clearfelling of pine plantations.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Macks Creek. Warm temperate rainforest with pine plantation planted into bufferzone.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Macks Creek. Endangered Sticky Wattle growing through young pine plantation. Hexazinone will most likely kill the Sticky Wattle if it is used in this plantation.

February 2010: Strzelecki Ranges - Stony Creek. Bulldozing of E.nitens plantation one year after it was burnt in the catastrophic February 2009 bushfires.