Access to Clean Fresh Uncontaminated
Water is a fundamental right which continues to
be deliberately, systematically and maliciously violated
as the term
"World's Best Practice" is used to describe the destruction
of Tasmanian Water Catchments, together with the Tasmanian diversity, complexity and relative
stability of forests, flora and fauna which exists
both competitively and co-operatively in the unexploited
or modified Natural World.
In the endless quest for wealth and
power, unscrupulous companies and politicians use prostituted
science to justify the continuing monopolisation, destruction
and pollution of landscapes in the place where we live. The ideal of living off the interest without trashing
the capital is lost as corrupted influences who only see
the world through the eyes of profit and speculation,
continue to promote the jargon of sustainability in a
highly subsidised and mechanised forest industry with
a history of continually shedding jobs and destroying
communities. Nurture and respect for the diversity and relative
stability of mother nature is fundamental to our very
survival.
This image clearly demonstrates another
violated landscape as a criminally negligent forest industry
continues to treat this planet as though we are the last
generation to inhabit the place. Steep slope clearfelling, no stream-side reserves,
windrowing and mounding directly up and down steep slopes
and the corresponding potential heavy erosion together
with the destruction of community water catchments, defies
every sense of good land stewardship. Where
the silt ends up...
THE SAGA OF TAMAR SILT
The Role of Forests
in Water Production The way in which water catchments are managed, together
with the nature of the vegetation within those catchments
is intrinsically linked to the health of rivers and streams,
the aquatic life and the quantity and quality of water which
flows from the catchments.
The Role of Forests
in Maintaining Stable Catchments
The long term productivity of water catchments is
wholly dependent on the stability of the forests in those
catchments. Where ever clearfelling and roading takes place
there is significant erosion and loss of topsoil resulting
in the siltation and organic matter contamination of rivers
and streams, this problem is compounded in steep terrain.
Sediment and Nutrient
Loss
Plantations and mono-culture re-growth on short term rotations
(10 to 30 years) will result in continuous soil disturbance
and nutrient loss, pauperising the soil and landscapes and
destroying water catchments. Plus, "Who could
love this River" (about siltation in the Tamar
River) 1.3mb
PDF BROCHURE courtesy : David Obendorf
Climate
The micro and macro climate around the world is being altered
as deforestation for agriculture and forestry destroy or
change the nature and structure of forests and water catchments
forever.
Plantations and Mono-Culture
Regrowth
The conversion of Native forests to the biological deserts
of plantations and aerial seeded mono-cultures, profoundly
changes the hydrology of the land, the micro-climate and
fertility of the land forever. Ban on GE Trees Gains Momentum
- PLANTATION
/ GMO EFFECT
Chemical
Contamination of Water Catchments
The continued use of chemicals for the suppression of “woody
weeds” (i.e. native forest regrowth), in plantation
establishment together with phosphate, nitrogenous fertilisers
and 1080 baits, claimed to be essential for economic
timber production, pose a real threat to the potability
of water, human and animal health. Plus Dr. Alison Bleaney
OBE, on Atrazine, Simazine and pesticides
AND the Status of
Tasmanian Mammals - David Obendorf
The Effects of Fire
on Water Catchments
The intensity and frequency of fires in water catchments
profoundly influences the hydrology of the land and water
productivity within those catchments. SOME
FORESTRY FIRES & FIRE BOMBING IN 2008
The Role of Forests
in Carbon Sequestration
Land clearing for agriculture and forestry together with
the conversion to mono-culture re-growth and plantations,
is responsible for 28% of the Worlds carbon emissions.
The Science of Forestry
The science of World's Best Practice is a science
of convenience, a science which has been influenced by a
prescribed outcome i.e. business as usual. Science ignores
the amenity, physical and cultural needs of individuals
and communities in the place where they live. Foresters
and Silviculturists use science as a justification for the
conquest of the natural world.
The Stability of
a Selectively Logged Forest and the Instability of the same
Mutilated Forest
The forest in the background has been selectively logged
over the last 140 years and fulfills the functions of relative
stability of a diversity of species and ages, hydrology,
micro-climate, resource, carbon sequestration, nutrient
levels and habitat.
The Economic and
Social Impact of Logging in Water Catchments
Large-scale, biologically impoverished, monoculture native
re-growth and plantations have little in common with forests
as they are highly problematic from an ecological, social
and economic point of view.
The New Democracy
A story of how a group of interested executives created
a plan to make ‘instant millions’ courtesy of
Australian taxpayers, and how governments are complicit
in supporting a social engineering scheme that threatens
our food supplies, our rural communities and shatter regional
tourism income while exposing our economy to severe threat.
M.I.S. Assault
Rural communities, towns and services continue to be decimated
as Corporate Managed Investment Schemes create an unconscionable
advantage for the Plantation Industry. Plus Protection
of Agricultural Land (PAL) Policy Review Comment from
Deputy Mayor - Meander Valley Council.
Tourism
Tourists visiting Tasmania are constantly forced to run
the gauntlet of log tucks whose configuration and loading
capacity far exceeds safe limits for the roads and bridges
which were never designed or constructed to carry such loads.
Google Earth exposes
the extent of logging and the continuing destruction of
water catchments in Tasmania in one year
Download this interactive logging overlay to show the extent
of native forest destruction in Tasmania and show the amount
of logging to be conducted in just one year (the 2006/2007
logging season). Every year 172 sq km of native forest is
logged on public land, with over 80% of trees sent to be
woodchipped.
The Birth of Clouds
Water is returned to the air by trees helping to create
clouds. Transpiration accounts for up to half, or even more,
of all moisture returned to the air.
How a Tree Interacts
with Rain in an Undisturbed Forest
Every tree, every plant species, intercedes in rain to change
the composition, energy and disribution of water. The overall
effect of trees is to moderate and conserve incoming energy.
Before and After
Slideshow at Tombstone Creek
The scenes depicted here are all within 100 meters of each
other. The forest scenes were photographed in 2003, the
other scenes in October 2006 - COURTESY
ROB BLAKERS PHOTOGRAPHY - www.RobBlakers.com
Does the forest industry even start
to care about the grossly pauperised landscape it is bequeathing
our/their children and grandchildren, do they think future
generations won’t mind that we are exploiting
and destroying resources their economies will need
and in doing so, pollute and destroy the future capacity
of the earth.
FUTURE TASMANIA
To promote the development, communication and uptake of innovations
and initiatives that create a healthy community, economy and
environment within Tasmania.
Whelan JJ, Willis K. Problems with provision: barriers to drinking
water quality and public health in rural Tasmania, Australia. Rural and Remote Health 7 (online), 2007: 627.
Available from : RURAL
and REMOTE HEALTH - www.rrh.org.au
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The Forest Industry is negligent in exercising
a “Duty of Care” or a “Duty of Caution”
and must be held responsible and liable to individuals and communities
for the costs they incur or contribute to by way of the destruction
of community resources and employment opportunities together
with their landscape amenity, which include:- water loss, nutrient
loss, siltation, chemical contamination, habitat loss, changes
to the micro-climate and corresponding rainfall depletion and
drought, destruction of sequested carbon and their considerable
contribution to climate change.
The Bio-mass of Trees The tree is broadly speaking bio-mass zones.
the stem, crown, detritus, humus & root associates
The Role of Forests in Water Production
The Role of Forests in Maintaining Stable Catchments
Sediment & Nutrient Loss from
plantations and mono-culture re-growth on short term rotation
The Role of Forests in Maintaining Stable
Micro-Climates
Plantation Effect
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Plantations and Mono-Culture Regrowth
The Stability of a Selectively Logged Forest
and the Instability of the same Mutilated Forest
The Role of Forests in Carbon Sequestration
The Science of Forestry
The science of World's Best Practice is a science of convenience
The Economic and Social Impact of Logging
in Water Catchments
M.I.S. Assault
Managed Investment Schemes & The Plight of Rural Communities
The Log Truck Gauntlet
faced by
Tourists & Visitors
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