April 2012
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Recent FSC certified
burn offs in Rainforest reserve have severely burnt remnant vegetation, most
likely leading to tree death. Why were such hot burns allowed inside Rainforest
Reserve in such innappropriate locations?
Approximate location (yellow dot) of recent burnoffs at this location
in College Creek/Cores and Links Rainforest reserve. Red = cool temperate
rainforest.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Piles
of logging materials were burnt at this location in College Creek. Many other
recently burnt areas in the rainforest reserve have also been observed.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Another
view of the recent burning inside rainforest reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Many old
stags, vital for fauna habitat have been destroyed and burnt and bulldozed at
College Creek since logging began in the catchment in February 2009. Other species
recorded at College Creek since the 1990's included: Long-nosed Bandicoot, Brushtail
Possum, Mountain Bobuck, Ringtail Possum, Yellow-bellied Glider (chew balls),
Sugar Glider, Black Wallaby, Brown Antechinus, Dusky Antechinus, Bush Rat, Swamp
Rat, Water Rat, Wombat and Short-beaked Echidna. Greater Gliders were recorded
in this catchment in 1982.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Another
view of trees with their canopies scorched due to burn offs. These fires would
have been very hot and would have released alot of greenhouse gases.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Old stags,
which provide good fauna habitat have also been torched. Why has this been done
in a rainforest reserve? Surviving fauna would have been struggling to find
enough suitable habitat post the logging inside the catchment, now burning as
well.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Killed
off vegetation due to recent burns.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. A remnant
stag now incinerated.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Burnt
tree hollows, vital for fauna.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Another
burnt out stag.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Another
burnt out stag, with yet another scorched burn in the background. All of these
burns have been carried out within buffers ecotones of state significant cool
temperate rainforest.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Another
large fire pile near remaining stags. Logging at this location in College Creek
started in January 2010, meaning that the regeneration is 27 months old.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Closer
view of burnt log dumps.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Burning
log dumps has also incinerated hundreds of trees hand-planted in the reserve.
Who paid for the plantings and why were they allowed to be killed by burning?
Will these sites now have to be hand planted again?
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: 1 year old regeneration
in site of national rainforest significance, burnt and bulldozed? Why has
regeneration at this coupe been destroyed, as it was supposed to be allowed
to regenerate and retired as a conservation reserve? Previous photos taken
in coupe in the distance.
Location for following burn off images inside Cores and Links Rainforest
Reserve
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. One of
the 30 piles of logging slash recently burnt at this coupe alone. These burn
sites also have killed possibly hundreds of trees planted into this reserve
some time ago. Who paid for the plantings?
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. An example
of one of the hundreds of hand planted trees burnt during unnecessary burnoffs
in rainforest buffers at College Creek.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Dead tree
with yellow tree guard.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. More examples of hand
planted eucalypts burnt at this location.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Not only
hand planted trees have been killed off by these unnecessary and unwanted burns.
Here are examples of at least 3 mature eucalypts burnt - as shown previously
on this page..
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. This is
what 3 year old regeneration looks like - at a coupe off track 32. Will this
coupe also suffer the same fate as the coupe highlighted previously?
April 2009 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Same site
just after logging in April 2009.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Good regeneration
on track 32, three years after logging in Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River. Recent
FSC certified logging within cool temperate rainforest buffers in the headwaters
of the Albert River catchment. Myrtle Beech within 20-30 metres of logging coupe.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River. Pulp logs
destined for Maryvale pulp mill logged within rainforest buffers.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River. Sawlogs
destined for local sawmills logged within rainforest buffers. Clearly unsustainable
despite FSC certification.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Greig Creek. Plenty of
logging has recently occurred in the headwaters of this catchment.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. View looking
west into cores and links rainforest reserve, with yellow dots representing
reserve boundary on Dubois Track. Logging commenced near Dubois Track in
June 2008, meaning that the reserve regeneration in this photo is almost
4 years old.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. More recent logging on the
eastern side of the Jack River (Pines Road) in the Cores and Links Rainforest
Reserve.
Location of recent logging near Pines Road in cores and links rainforest
reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. This pine
coupe located at Cable Track was logged 2-3 years showing appalling regeneration
inside rainforest reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. Recent track
work near Pines Road included this 10-15 metre high pile of soil sitting near
a gully head in the cores and links Reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. View looking
west into Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. View looking west into Cores
and Links Rainforest Reserve and recent clearfelling of hardwood.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. More unattended
burn offs inside rainforest reserve. Three were occurring in close proximity
to each other on the day when this photo was taken.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. Recent clearfells of 30
year old pine plantations, will create large amounts of soil loss in times
of heavy rain.
Morris Creek, marked with yellow dot in comparison to Cores and Links
Rainforest Reserve
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. Torched
log landing.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. Pines at
this location will probably be replanted with Shining Gum.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. FSC certified
log landing, with boulders starting to roll down slopes.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. Signs of
wet weather work and FSC certified roading.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morris Creek. Another
torched log landing.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges. Recent logging at Dingo
Creek Road.
April 2012 - Strzelecki Ranges/Morwell River Catchment.
Recent spraying of roadsides in rainforest reserve.