Stop logging Brown Mountain

Victorian Greens MP Sue Pennicuik talks about why the old growth forest at Brown Mountain should be preserved

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• East
• Gippsland
• Brown
• Mountain
• logging
• coupe
• old
• growth
• forest

[460cixy]

short memory it seems . brown Mountain was logged in the 70,s its an example of Sustainable forest management. but i guess some ppl will do anything to get there 15 seconds of fame

[greenmpsvic]

Dear 460cixy, Thank you for your comment. It is true that sadly some of the Brown Mountain National Estate forest was logged in the late 1980s, but not the section in this video. This area is still untouched old growth forest. The areas that were logged were destroyed they are now a tree-crop, not a forest. Sue.

[owlie25]

I wrote to Gavin Jennings and John Brumby in early December but received no response - so I feel like they're really in touch with the concerns of the community. It's absolute disgrace and makes me so angry that in this day and age governments are still destroying beautiful places like this, which apart from their inherent value should be kept for everyone to share in, instead everything is chopped up and shipped off, leaving us with scarred land .. :(

[greenmpsvic]

Dear owlie25, Thank you for your action. Don't give up. It's not too late. I think we have their attention now, thanks to people like you.

[flossie2009]

I think you need to do some writing your self and find out some correct facts regarding where the wood goes to. All trees that are fallen do not go to woodchips.

[greenmpsvic]

Dear flossie, I did not say all trees. However, the fact is that more than 85% of the state's native forest logged last financial year was turned into woodchips, sawdust and waste. Only 12% is for sawlogs. Figures obtained by freedom of information by the Age 20 Jan 2008. Sue.

[oregonkid911]

P.S i got out 27 loads today, and that was just the one side, so thats removing way over 270 trees a day from the Forrest.

[oregonkid911]

I am a logger and proud to be one. If we didn't cut trees this is what your life would be. No house, no money, can't wipe your ass, no education because the school woulnt be there, no pencil, no gum, monuments wouldn't be here, and alot more.

[HibbersonT950]

@loggersforever

DIRTY GREENS! Log the old growth.

[HibbersonT950]

That'd look good on the back on me jinker.

Dirty greens

[norcallogger]

@fatheranthony4pope what you say is true but also with that there are a lot of areas that die out due to bug and fire problems

[fatheranthony4pope]

@norcallogger You are just talking through your arse with nonsensical arguments because you think tat since all you know ho to do is to cut down and destroy nature and replace it with plantations, that thats how the world has always worked. You probably think that some alien race came and cut down trees and replaced them during the times of dinosaurs, before humans came into existence.

[fatheranthony4pope]

@norcallogger You do realise that those forests have been there for thousands of years with out logging interference, so i am pretty sure they will do just fine on their own. When a tree falls down, it then rots as you so rightly said, and then breaks down into soil putting nutrients back into the soil like compost and then feed fututre vegetation that grows around and replaces it naturally. Do you seriously think that before white settlement and logging that people cut it down and replaced it??

[fatheranthony4pope]

@loggersforever It would be easy to use plantations to cover our needs, instead of destroying whats left of our native forests for financial gains for a minority such as loggers.

[fatheranthony4pope]

@loggersforever sorry mate but plantations could easily be used for these purposes instead of ARSEHOLES like yourself who hink that the only thing worth while in life is to destroy the earth we live on - I wouldn't classify myself or anyone here who is against logging old growth fores as tree huggers - we are people who believe in a Sustainable planet and protecting biodiversity and native wildlife. People like you don' have any concept outside of ur tiny lives and profession.

[loggersforever]

loggers for ever!!!! you tree hugers are a pack of wanker if it wasnt for logging you wouldnt have homes or dunny paper .you will never stop it so why try go get a job you dole bludging pack of scum bags fertilize the bush doze in a greenie!!!!!!!