LOGGING BROWN MOUNTAIN

Brown Mountain is one of the last significant stands of old-growth forest in Victoria. Two weeks ago the Victorian Government ordered the government owned logging company Vic Forests Inc to begin clear-felling the area. Community concern has been ignored with government spokesmen claiming there are no old trees being logged. The government is preventing public access to the logging area as it rushes to log two adjoining areas. This footage was taken secretly and shows third world standard old-growth forest logging. Most of the trees cut on Brown Mountain are being exported to Japan as woodchips.

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• errinundra
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• logging
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• gippsland

[forkdriver500]

Theres a few good spars in that lot.....time to make way for a new vibrant forest full of life and not full of decaying habitat. Habitat means multiple aged forest, not a senescent pile of rot for the beetles, but a range of habitats for all inhabitants. Australian forest communities rely on disturbance to promote a range of habitats and encourage new growth and diversity of life.

I guess this is an older video, but the concept is the same no matter how long you keep flogging conservatism

[errinundra]

@forkdriver500 The tree feller on Brown Mountain was a New Zealand citizen, his employment cost an Australian job. Most of the trees felled on Brown Mnt went to the woodchip mill owned by the Japanese Nippon Paper Co at Eden NSW, and exported to Japan. A few of the trees ended up as sawlogs to be cut up for packing pallets. VicForests the Government logging agency that logged Brown Mnt, recently failed to attain Forest Stewardship Council Certification in Vic because of its logging practices.

[errinundra]

Update. Community outrage at the logging on Brown Mountain forced the Victorian government to suspend its logging. Meanwhile the Dept of Sustainability conducted animal surveys in next logging area. A high concentration of endangered gliding possums and other wildlife was discovered. A stump in the already felled forest was carbon dated to over 600 years old. Next week the premier is expected to announce the forest will not be protected and logging is to recommence in spite of public concern.

[treekiller77]

@campbellhughes95 YESSSSSSSS Thank You for seeing it our way........ Hugging trees is for queers....

[weisyboy]

logging the old growth trees is the best way to maintain sustainable forests.

i am 3rd generation saw miller/logger we have been logging teh same blocks of land for the last 100 years, i am just starting to recut some blocks my father cut in teh 50s. there are some big logs there again now.

i suppose we could just leave the big trees to dye, fall over, catch fire and burn down 50 others, and then fell some smaller non mature trees that will produce low quality timber.

[Daisymay380]

Logging is a very good way of maintaining our forest. I'll tell you what, those old trees cause the death of those natural growing plants, and logging companies are required to replant native trees that were cut down. So if you bastards want to see the forests burn to hell and back then go ahead then we'll see where were at. Our eath will look so f***ing dead it be so embarrassing we might as well be dead too. Logging is not bad as long as we don't over log our forest.

[StickerSlapFilms]

Dont Logg TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[400sean]

FUCK YOU CUNTS. HOPE YOU KILL YOURSELF WITH A CHAINSAW YOU RETARDS

[greenaissance1]

Native forests belong to the public, not loggers

[MegaCat312]

look you fucking greenies or what ever your names are loggings been around a lot longer than you so youve got no right to stop it so fuck of

[volvodieselable]

cool video

[KiloByte69]

Liberals are always trying to stand in the way of progress.

[dontwobble]

pfft, greenies.... they make good fertilizer.

[amirzubairmughal]

i think it is very good busines ,, but for forest protection we have to look after over forest as well ,, like if you cut a tree instead of t hat tree we should put 5 trees , so we will lost over forest,,