Victoria's State of the Forests Report 2008 - Production

The table on page 16 shows the annual area harvested is 9,470 ha, or 1% of the "total area available & suitable for timber production."
25.94 ha per day, 365 days of the year.
In Melbourne terms, this is 13 times the area of the MCG arena.

In 2001/2 this included 730 ha of old growth forest.
In 2005/6 this was just 50 ha - have there been any significant ill effects on the timber industry, or the population of rural town? Would the removal of the last 50 ha quota be so bad?

It seems that 9470 ha produced just under 2 million cubic metres of wood product in 2006 with sawlogs including salvage making up 0.5 million cubic metres.
Pulpwood comprised almost 70% of Victoria's forest harvest.

Old growth forest attracts even higher percentages of pulpwood - why bother goinig to all the effort of plundering a few ha of old growth forest fo pulpwood???

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