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Hancock's
logging practices - Here
Logging practices
dated prior to November 1998 were conducted by Victorian Plantation
Corporation. Logging practices past November 1998 conducted by Hancock
Victorian Plantations".
It is important
to know that Hancock have kept the same forest managers in the Strzelecki's
who were logging prior to the November 1998 sale. Is it any wonder that
the same problems are still occurring?
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Hatchery Road
opposite
Rodgers Road.
April 1999.
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21/3/99. Photo taken from Hatchery Road past Rhondas track. All
old Regenerating Trees (buffers) removed from most of this road.
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Clearing of 1950's plantation? All buffers and filters removed to
extend plantation holdings. Planted 1998
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 All
Old Regenerating forest removed 1997. Replanted with Shining Gum.
Marked as non-plantation are on Hancock VPC Pty Ltd maps
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River -Yarram/Madayla Road Crawford Track Section 3 june/July 1999
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West Branch Morwell River, May 1
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West Branch
Morwell River - All old regenerating forest removed in 1997.
Since the replanting of plantation species, the area is depicted
and marked on Hancock maps as non-plantation. All rainforest buffers
removed on this site, exposing rainforest to disease and infection
of myrtle wilt.
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August 24 1999. Cool Temperate Rainforest buffers removed. Access
track bulldozed into the head of the rainforest gully mapped as
rainforest on Department of Natural Resources and Environment's
EVC's. This site is on a permanent stream, the Morwell West Branch
of the Morwell River.
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Albert River - Yarram / Madayla Road - Crawford Track. June/July
1999. Bulldozing of debris into regenerating rainforest of Southern
Sassafras and Myrtle Beech
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Bell Boulevard
- This is an unusual site in that there were obvious old regrowth
buffers on rainforest and other gullies feeding into a permanent
watercourse, the West Branch of the Morwell River. Hancock Victorian
Plantations Pty Ltd, formerly Victorian Plantation Corporation,
have ignored all available scientific data published about this
site and the general area. Rainforest buffers and original native
forest were replanted with shining gum in April 1999.
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West
Branch Morwell River 1998. All old forest removed, including the
bed of the gully. Debris pushed into existing culvert, which was
smashed in the process.
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Rodgers
Road: August 1999.
Remnant old growth forest-non plantation timber removed. Trees
bulldozed into gullies. Removal of non-plantation timber including
blackwoods.
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Albert River Catchment
Yarram/Madayla Road. 22nd August 1999. Section 5 filter strips removed
with debris pushed into gully floor.
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