Logging Errinundra 2011 on Youtube

Latest videos of logging of the corridor promised by the then Victorian Government prior to the election in 2006 are now at http://www.youtube.com/user/wallabyjlw
I've also added a few photos to Flickr... Logging Errinundra 2011
This is part of Vicforests' 'essential' annual harvest of 5500ha of native forest.
When you have a look at the forest before the logging commenced, and see how much timber has been left behind and torched, ask yourself how much timber was taken.
What was so vital to Vicforests' requirements that it was necessary to destroy so much for so little.
Becase this 'harvest' was not for use in building fine furniture. At best it was for fence palings, but more likely is was for chipboard, cardboard or woodchips. If Vicforests gets its way, these timbers will be used to fuel furnaces for so-called green energy.
Look at the forest as it was. Can you see what is missing? Can you see what is lost?
And after the fire, the 'Prescribed Burn' that is carries out for "both fuel reduction and ecological purposes' according to the notice nailed to the tree, 1080 baits are laid to prevent wallabies, such as those pictured, from eating the new shoots.
Yet research shows logging and burning increases the risk of fire.
And common sense would say that an ancient ecosystem is self perpetuating - it does not need human intervention.