August 2015 Updates
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek Catchment. 200 hectares
of leasehold and private
land pine plantations get the chop near Allambee. 12 km south east of Warragul
on the road to Mount Worth National Park.
Location of Thornbill Creek catchment in relation to the town of Warragul.
Part of the Latrobe River Catchment and ultimately the Gippsland Lakes.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek Catchment.
200 hectares of leasehold
and private land pine plantations get the chop near Allambee. Aerial Pesticide
spraying likely to occur 2016-2017. Parish of Warragul.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek Catchment.
200 hectares of leasehold
and private land pine plantations get the chop near Allambee.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek Catchment.
Ex VPC leasehold in the
headwaters of Thornbill Creek get the chop near Allambee.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek Catchment.
Ex VPC leasehold in the
headwaters of Thornbill Creek get the chop near Allambee.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Fosters Gully Catchment/Middle
Creek (Morwell River). Summerfields Road. Koala scats found at this location
under pine trees in 2014. Trees now gone.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Fosters Gully Catchment/Middle
Creek (Morwell River). Collapsing road batters Summerfields Road. Leasehold.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Fosters Gully Catchment/Middle
Creek (Morwell River). Destruction of bluegums. Near Summerfields Road.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Fosters Gully Catchment/Middle
Creek (Morwell River). More bluegums facing the chop. Near Summerfields
Road.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Fosters Gully Catchment/Middle
Creek (Morwell River). Summerfields Road is a known koala hotspot as
it adjoins the Morwell National Park.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Removal of koala habitat, old growth bluegums, prime
koala feed species.
Summerfields Road Plantation lies about 8km south west
of Churchill and is largely leased land.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Removal of koala habitat, old growth bluegums, prime
koala feed species. 10-20 trees removed here.
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August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Old growth cut down by Hancock.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Old growth cut down by Hancock.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Old growth retained by Hancock, but for how long? This
is the type of vegetation removed at a number of locations in this plantation.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). What will happen here after it rains?
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). What will happen here after it rains? Koala hotspot as well.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). 18000 truck loads of timber will come out of these plantations.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Looking south into large areas of native forest in Vaggs Creek.
The plantations being cut lie between Morwell National Park and Middle Creek,
some of the highest numbers of koalas in the Strzeleckis are in this area.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River). Buffers of native vegetation.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Catchment/Middle Creek
(Morwell River), cutting pines out of areas of native forest.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek. 10-12 year old bluegum plantation.
High number of koala scats found under tree in foreground.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek. 10-12 year old bluegum plantation.
~20 Koala scats found under one plantation bluegum.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek. 10-12 year old bluegum plantation.
Recent logging near where koala scats were located.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek. More clearfelling near Golden Gully
Road.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek, creek crossing.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek buffer between bluegum plantation. Messmate
and Mountain Grey Gum with peppermints inside this koala corridor.
August 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Haunted Hills. Parish of
Narracan, tributary of Wilderness Creek, creek crossing. Koala scats found under
this Mountain Grey Gum (E.cypellocarpa).