Region: Strzeleckis
Legal Number:
LEGL/93-89/1A
Plantation: Albert
Conservation Priority:
High
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LEGL
93-89k: November 2001: Corner Upper Tudor and Shield Roads.
Bulldozer operators inside road drains. Note back up of water
in drain caused by blockage of tributary culvert. Water having
to make its way under log road, possibly jeopardising stability
of entire road.
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LEGL
93-89m: November 2001: Old trees knocked down on Joes Road.
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Hancock Site visit:
LEGL/93-89: Albert Block. Site visit November 2001. High conservation
importance.
Access into this plantation mass was made via Madalya Road from the
south east. The plantation is quite large stretching some 8km north
to south and 6km east to west. There is quite a large portion of farmland/private
land within this plantation boundary as well. About one km along Madalya
Road a large clearfell was observed to the left. We turned off at Hiawatha-Madalya
Road and witnessed some very steep cable logging of pine established
in 1976. It appeared that loggers had confined there activities to the
plantation boundary however it could be observed that numerous trees
ferns had been damaged along one of the ridges. Further down Hiawatha-Madalya
Road we came to the intersection of Shields and Upper Tudor Road. Extremely
lax logging had taken place at this intersection, with bulldozer trails
observed running through road drains. In fact it appeared that a tributary
of the Albert River was blocked and that the tributary had been diverted
along the logging road with some obviously seeping under the logging
road. It was also evident that much top soil was eroding down a steep
tributary of the Albert River with large rocks observed in the tributary
itself. Words really can't do justice to the poor logging standards
seen at this site. We travelled down from this area to Hiawatha seeing
some impressive buffer zones along a main tributary of the Albert River.
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LEGL
93-89l: November 2001: Corner Upper Tudor and Shield Roads.
Bulldozer operators inside road drains. Note back up of water
in drain caused by blockage of tributary culvert. Water having
to make its way under log road, possibly jeopardising stability
of entire road. Note destroyed tree ferns.
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LEGL
93-89n: November 2001: Trees in buffer zone possibly knocked
over by wind.
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LEGL
93-89o: November 2001: Tributary of Albert River near Hiawatha/Madalya
Road.
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93-89q: December 2001: Old Messmate? retained at the end of Charcoal
Track coupes.
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LEGL
93-89r: December 2001: Head of gully trashed in Albert River catchment
near Charcoal Track.
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93-89t: December 2001: Retained native vegetation west of the
Charcoal Track coupes in the Albert River catchment.
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