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October
2001:
Recent
pine logging by Grand Ridge Plantations in the Traralgon
Creek catchment - 2km's north of Mount Tassie. Note
lack of buffer zones in drainage lines.
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November
2001:
Roading in the
Merrimans Creek catchment.
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December
2001:
Plantation
93-78: At this site, just off Livingston Road, a logging
track was cut across the top of a gully feeding into the
Morwell River West Branch. It is also evident that a Blackwood
had been cut down (to be supplied to whom?). Soil movement
will be likely to occur at this site die to the poor quality
of the logging track.
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November 2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-83.
Illegal logging was observed taking place at the end of
York Road in the Franklin River catchment. Loggers are
apparently going after Blackwoods in an area of regenerating
forest. Massive amounts of soil disturbed at the site,
with at least 1km logging 'roads'illegally bulldozed through
the bush. Grand Ridge Plantations were informed in late
November. This photo shows what all the destruction is
about. A blackwood stump with the tree obviously being
removed. This indicates that an illegal Blackwood market
is occurring in Victoria with trees sourced from the Strzeleckis.
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October
2001:
Grand
Ridge Plantations (Hancock) after the near completion of
logging of this pine plantation in the Morrison Creek catchment.
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November 2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-83.
Illegal logging was observed taking place at the end of
York Road in the Franklin River catchment. Loggers are apparently
going after Blackwoods in an area of regenerating forest.
Massive amounts of soil disturbed at the site, with at least
1km logging 'roads'illegally bulldozed through the bush.
Grand Ridge Plantations were informed in late November.
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November
2001:
Plantation
LEGL 93-106. Hancock Watch observed loggers in this location
mainly driving their bulldozers and logging machinery off
road when in many cases the road would have sufficed. Offroad
bulldozer operations were observed for several km's in the
Merrimans Creek catchment
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October 2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Recent pine logging in the Merrimans and Sassafras Creek
catchments. Note the extent of native vegetation remaining
in the Sassafras catchment on the far ridge.
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October 2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Massive soil disturbance caused by logging contractors
in the Merrimans Creek catchment. Domestic water catchment
for the town of Seaspray.
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October 2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Merriman Creek catchment. Photo taken from near Callignee
South. Recent pine logging.
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October
2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Merriman Creek catchment. Photo taken from near Callignee
South. Recent pine logging.
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October
2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Merriman Creek catchment. Photo taken from near Callignee
South. Recent pine logging showing poor roading..
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October
2001:
Plantation LEGL 93-106.
Merriman Creek catchment. Photo taken from near Callignee
South. Recent pine logging showing poor roading including
slumping batters.
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October
2001:
Recent pine logging
by Grand Ridge Plantations in the Traralgon Creek catchment
- 2km's north of Mount Tassie. Note lack of buffer zones
in drainage lines.
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October
2001:
Recent
pine logging by Grand Ridge Plantations in the Traralgon
Creek catchment - 2km's north of Mount Tassie. Cable logged
due to steepness of slopes. Is this type of plantation
forestry sustainable?
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October
2001:
Photo
taken from Mount Tassie looking north into Latrobe Valley.
Grand Ridge Plantations pine logging occurring in the
Traralgon Creek catchment. It is also evident that vast
areas of pine plantations throughout Victoria have been
logged by Hancock in the past two years. How sustainable
has this logging been? Rumour has it that workers are
claiming that Victorian Plantation Corporation, prior
to the sale to Hancock, were targeting the best of the
pine plantations in the state, for logging in order to
make the sale price look more impressive to potential
buyers. Rumour also suggests that sustainable yield throughout
the state has been breached leading to rumours that Hancock
possibly wants to cut and run.
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October
2001:
Recent pine logging
by Grand Ridge Plantations in the Traralgon Creek catchment
- 2km's north of Mount Tassie. Note lack of buffer zones
in drainage lines.
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October 2001:
Grand Ridge Plantations
(Hancock) and an eastern tributary of Morrison Creek.
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November
2001:
Grand
Ridge Plantations (Hancock) gully erosion occurring in
Morwell River Catchment in recently logged pine plantation.
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November
2001:
Grand Ridge Plantations
(Hancock) recently logged pine plantation with roading
resembling a quarry in plantation just off Midland Highway.
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November
2001:
Grand Ridge Plantations
(Hancock) recently logged plantation.
This photo indicates
the steepness of the slopes at something like 45 degrees
in places.
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