Letters to the Editor
The Age
4 November 2022
The Chair of Forestry Australia’s Victorian Branch, Professor Rod Keenan’s Letter to the Editor responded to The Age’s article “Logging emissions double aviation’s”. Professor Keenan stated that it was a flawed analysis of carbon emissions from native timber harvesting.
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The West Australian
10 August 2022
WA Member Danielle Wiseman wrote a letter to the Editor about last year’s Government announcement. “They got their headline, but they didn’t get a good outcome for WA’s forests”.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
9 August 2022
Forestry Australia member Rob Youl, wrote an article about Life Member John Jack, – A pioneer in forestry environmentalism.
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The Manjimup Bridgetown Times
August 2022
WA member Gavin Butcher wrote a Letter to the Editor. ” The industry needs to embrace the full timber supply chain and speak with one voice letting the Government know what it wants from the monopoly supplier and policy leader”.
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The Mercury
21 July 2022
Forestry Australia’s Vice President, Dr Michelle Freeman, wrote a Letter to the Editor in reponse to Jennifer Sanger’s “Protecting our forests is crucial” (Talking Point, July 9). Dr Freeman said ” Our best chances of achieving a holistic solution to climate change inlclude focusing on reducing emissions across all sectors using renewable resources sustainably and actively managing our forests appropaitely to ensure diversity and reselience.
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The Age
19 July 2022
Responding to Professor David Lindenmayer (“We are fuelling state’s bushfire risk”, The Age, 16/7) regarding timber harvesting and bushfires within Victoria, Danny Diarmid University of Melbourne PhD graduate wrote, ‘Making recommendations to combat bushfire severity and intensity is complex, contextual and contingent on forest type.’ Danny wrote, this opinion ‘reinforces prejudices towards forestry organisations and governments in ecosystem management. I fear his views could be used, on supposed environmental grounds, to justify cessation of salvage operations. This would in turn create greater fuel loads and the likelihood of bushfires due to climate change by leaving the salvage job half done.’
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The Sydney Morning Herald
9 July 2022
Forestry Australia Vice President Dr Lachie McCaw wrote a Letter to the Editor published in The Sydney Morning Herald. Dr McCaw said: “Elevated extinction risk for any native species should be of great concern to all, and as a society we should be doing all we can to act. However, forestry operations, rather than being singled out as a factor contributing to species decline, should instead be embraced as part of the solution. There is no scientific consensus that forestry operations have a major impact on overall populations, with native forest harvesting occurring on such a small scale that singling out its contribution is an overstatement”.
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The West Australian
July 2022
Forestry Australia Vice President Dr Lachie McCaw, AFSM had a Letter to the Editor published following the article by Paul Murray.
Dr McCaw said: “Forest Management requires detailed planning over long time horizons. The current situation facing industries and communities that rely on native timbers demonstrates the folly of facing decisions on short term political considerations”.
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The Age
9 June 2022
Professor Rod Keenan, Chair of Forestry Australia’s Victorian Branch, said “There is no evidence to suggest current native forest harvesting is driving species to extinction. Suggesting that harvesting is managed by a “rogue” agency does a disservice to the many professionals involved in planning and oversight of harvesting operations”.
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