Have to upvote this one.
Tassies forests are ancient, what they are doing there is near criminal.
Scortched earth followed up by a gas bomb to destroy any remaining animal life after its been raped for wood chips.

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All "old growth" forests of the world should become off-limits to logging, period.

You know from the size of the tree trunks where I live, that nothing here is older than about 50 years old. That means that almost everything at some time has been cleared. In some ways,this realization offers some consolation, because to look at, you wouldn't think we live in a barren wasteland.

There's quite a lot of greenery and trees, so it shows that nature can regenerate and regrow. You only have to look at some old photos of the timber-getting days to realise however, that this greenery is but a sad shadow of what used to exist. Trees with trunks so thick 5 men couldn't touch arms around it, were everywhere, then. There's nothing like that anywhere, now.

There's no majesty in nature here, now. Just a struggling attempt at regrowth that gets knocked down every few months with each new housing development that our corrupt and immoral government allows with its stamp of approval.

I go on a camping trip to Idaho every fall. When you get down into some of the deep canyons of the Bitterroots, you still find old-growth forest. You look at those hulking trees and try to imagine the landscape covered with them. That's what is was like. Sad.

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