June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River - Kelly Track. Hancock been busy lopping and poisoning native regeneration in Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Why?
March 1999: Aerial photograph of Kelly Track (which is in centre of image). Note different colouration of trees, indicating possible different species to Mt Ash.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River - Kelly Track. Hundreds of regenerating bluegums have been wiped out at Kelly Track.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River - Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Kelly Track. Poisoning of Bluegum coppice/natural regeneration.
October 2009: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. Kelly Track showing the regeneration which has now been destroyed.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River - Cores and Links Rainforest Reserve. Bluegum coppice. This is what is being poisoned.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Old Growth Destruction
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. No protection for old stags. What about hollow dependent fauna?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek. Plantation trees. Really?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. Poorly regenerating ex pine coupe inside cores and links reserve. Was this sprayed?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River. Obvious signs of wet weather work near Cable Track. FSC certified.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/College Creek: Track 31, wet weather work
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Atrocious FSC certified roading drainage on public road. How do public road users deal with this public safety problem?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Local residents have to endure Hancock logging equipment on their roads (this shows logging equipment on Middle Creek Road). Who pays for road maintenance? Contractors promised that they wouldn't be using Middle Creek Road, but they are.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Look what such heavy machinery does to creek crossings. Why are Hancock logging contractors allowed to use these creek crossings?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment.Creek crossing where logging machinery in previous photo had just driven through.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Heavy machinery has turned Middle Creek Road into slush, making driving on this public road very unsafe. Drivers (local residents) have lost control of their vehicles after being subjected to this road. This is a public safety concern.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Access track into local pine coupe, being gouged by Hancock logging machinery.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek Catchment. Close up showing what heavy logging equipment does to local public roads.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Middle Creek: Contractors Shortcut into pine coupe.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Little Albert Catchment. Recent logging of pine plantations in headwaters of catchment. Burn off occurring.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Little Albert Catchment (Turton Road). Sign indicating tree planting for "preservation of quolls" in Little Albert River Catchment. Waste of taxpayers money? How does this replanting help tiger quolls?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations)- This was a prime quality koala tree a few years ago, now only a stag remains.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations) - Sediment blow out near "Koala Stag Tree".
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations) - FSC certified drainage I.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations) - FSC certified drainage II.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations) - FSC certified herbicide spraying.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Traralgon Creek Catchment (Jeeralang Plantations) - FSC certified roading.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Jack River catchment. Cable track poor regeneration a couple of yeears after logging pine plantation in cores and links reserve.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River Catchment. Pine plantation recently logged on this tributary of the Albert River. Note lack of buffers.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River Catchment. Pine plantation recently logged on this tributary of the Albert River. Geotextile used on creek crossing. Were permits sought from the Catchment Management Authority?
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Tarwin River Catchment. Recent logging of hardwood just off Central Road.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Tarwin River Catchment. Logs waiting for pick up. Off to local sawmills and Maryvale Pulp Mill.
June 2010: Strzelecki Ranges/Albert River Catchment. Recently logged coupe off Christies Road.
Forest audit worry BY EBONNIE LORD 14 Jun, 2010
THE Forest Stewardship Council has confirmed no on ground audit was conducted on HVP Plantations' operations in the Strzelecki Ranges, where a controversial one off harvest is taking place. Friends of the Earth spokesperson Anthony Amis said this year the council's auditors decided not to audit any of HVP Plantation's logging operations in the Strzelecki Ranges, which was ``by far the most contentious area under HVP's control''. However, a HVP Plantations spokesperson said the company had a ``proud and well established'' track record of responsible forest management. Mr Amis said the ``outrageous oversight'' by the Smartwood auditors would mean no audit team would visit the Strzelecki Ranges where Hancock was clear felling highly sensitive areas. ``These are the most sensitive forests currently certified by the Forest Stewardship Council system in Australia, they are sites of national conservation significance,'' Mr Amis said. The HVP Plantations' spokesperson said the comments made by Friends of the Earth about the auditing of its plantations under the forestry council's certification were inaccurate and ill-informed. ``HVP is advised by its auditors that the Gippsland estate has been the focus of the majority of the audit fieldwork, despite it representing less than half of HVP's total area under certification,'' he said. Forest Stewardship Council Australian chief executive Michael Spencer said its role was to set the principals and standards for an independent third party auditor to use for its auditing process. ``The council accredit the accrediting bodies, if we feel that there is an issue with the work they are doing we can call for a short notice audits of them,'' Mr Spencer said. He said the issue had already been raised to him via email and he had requested the reasons behind why the auditing body chose not to conduct site visits for this year's audit. ``We know that it is a sensitive issue and we will follow though,'' he said. A spokesperson for Smartwood said the auditor offered to meet with stakeholders, but the offer was never taken up.