Hancock Watch Updates

October 2015

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October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Successful regeneration of native forest in Strzelecki Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Why hasn't this been reserved, as was agreed way back in 2008. Since the Cores and Links Agreement was announced in October 2006, no land from the Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve has been added to the State's Reserve system.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve 5 years after clearfelling.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: The area in the foreground was scalped in September 2013, because it did not meet regeneration standards set out in the Cores and Links Reserve Agreement. Can't say that this thoughtless idiocy has been a success at this location. Who wrote the regeneration standards? Note the successful regeneration that was not bulldozed!

Same location September 2013. Why re-enter the site and bulldoze successfully regenerating forest?

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: 5 year old regeneration in Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/South Middle Creek: Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve regeneration between 1-2 years of age. The western headwaters of South Middle Creek are in the Strzelecki Cores and Links Reserve, not so the Eastern side which has been replanted in plantations.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/South Middle Creek: Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve regeneration between 1-2 years of age.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Creek: Old growth bluegum chainsawed by Hancock.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Vaggs Creek: Dozens of old growth Bluegums have been destroyed by Hancock at Summerhills Road.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Narracan Creek Headwaters: Recent clearfelling ~6km north west of Thorpdale.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Thousands of hectares of post 2009 bushfire regeneration currently being eliminated by Hancock.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Site preparation of post 2009 bushfire regeneration. Note the re-establishment of acacia and eucalypt, which will be bulldozed in order to establish new plantations. "Picking a scab that refuses to heal".

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Post 2009 bushfire site prep.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Site preparation following 2009 bushfires.Removal of thousands of hectares of regenerating bush.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek. Recent clearfelling of Mt Ash in the headwaters of Traralgon Creek

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Pine wildings inside this tiny reserve. Hancock pine plantations surround this Reserve.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Gormandale Flora and Fauna Reserve. Pine wildings from HVP plantations are common in this reserve.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Flynns Creek. Gormandale Flora and Fauna Reserve filled with Hancock Pine Wildings

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek. Ex APM pine plantations get the chop.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek, located south east of Warragul on the road to Mount Worth

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek. Hundreds of hectares cleared in the headwaters of the Gippsland Lakes.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Thornbill Creek. Eroding log landing

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Tarwin River West Branch. Allambee. Hancock pine plantation used as a garbage dump. Building waste included toxic CCA pine observed.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Tarwin River West Branch. Allambee. Hancock pine plantation used as a garbage dump. Building waste included toxic CCA pine observed.

October 2015: Strzelecki Ranges/Watkins Creek Catchment. Allambee: Logging access track punched through drainage line.