Hancock Watch May 2011 Updates

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May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. FSC certified roading in site of national conservation significance.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Sustainable Forestry? Look how Hancock treat Australia's conservation areas.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Substandard and 'illegal' logging access road.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Busted Culvert, appalling drainage in site of national conservation significance.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Note also collapsing batters.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. The edge effect, where does the reforestation end and native forest begin?

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Edge effect 2. Native forest logging?

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Another clearcut inside vital rainforest catchment.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. One year post logging. Groundcovers re-establishing. Few signs of eucalyptus regen in area now part of state reserve system.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. One year post logging, a 'scab' of natural regeneration trying to heal the excesses of clearfelling.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Morwell River East Branch - Lawless Track: More signs of wet weather work.

 

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Traralgon Creek/Parish of Bulga. Recent clearfelling of dead Mt Ash killed in February 2009 bushires.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Tourist site recently clearfelled.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Why not use this timber?

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. The newly logged conservation reserve.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Recent logging inside reserve.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Sign says Duffs Walking Trail.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Silver Wattle Regneration post logging.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Merrimans Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Regnerating forest about one year post logging. Another area supposedly protected under the 2006 cores and links deal.

May 2011 - Strzelecki Ranges Grand Ridge Road. Newly laid/'upgrade' due to logging truck movements heading east from newly widened Whitelaws Track. This upgrade in places is quite elevated and narrow, meaning access along road is quite dangerous particularly for tourists who may not be used to encountering log trucks or other traffic particularly in wet weather. With the high volume of log trucks likely to now use this road, we fear that serious accidents could eventuate.