Forestry Tasmania, Burning Retained Large Trees

This analysis shows the devastating effects of retaining large trees and burning them when the surrounding landscape of logging waste is incinerated. In 2024 how does this pass as an acceptable practice for the trees and for our climate.
These large trees are 2.5m or greater in diameter and they are retained with the intention that they one day become giants.
Our report “Tasmania’s Forest Carbon” reveals that native forest logging is the biggest emitter of carbon in the state. Native forest logging in Tasmania emits more than the entire transport sector including domestic aviation.
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[@vox3434]

Thanks for bringing this hidden issue to light. It's time the Tasmanian government found more sustainable sources of economic revenue.

[@peterbilt2]

Thank you Steve. Have you sent this vid to the ABC ? I hope you/we have some success.

[@ben_theredonethat94]

Awesome video Steve ! The photogrammetry shots turned out amazing

[@Kvothethe]

Very informative

[@mattbaker337]

Even a 5 tonne excavator will compact the roots. It will take a few years before you start to see the die back but the tree is doomed. You see this effect in new development estates

[@woodybalfour8213]

Amen Thanks for this

[@chugs1984]

Fuck me, this is insane.

[@benmcavoy8674]

This just makes me furious

[@aaronnunn5240]

Sure is beautiful country

[@TTTzzzz]

JHC, Tasmanian woodlands are a great natural treasure. Alas, the logger moguls only see a quick buck to be made. Nobody makes any thing worth while with this wood. It's chipped and shipped off. It's pure ecocide.

[@cabralad]

Environmental Pests👎👎

[@aaronnunn5240]

Ahh the old t/R ratio

[@cruzanmongoose]

They don't care about the forest only money.

[@chir0pter]

WTF!

[@jamesharmon3827]

Well there's the fact we have no jurisdiction in Tasmania

[@chir0pter]

? Who's 'we'?

[@michaelginever732]

Crap. That's all I have to say about that.

[@barnysadventures]

It's interesting how you can twist positives into negatives and completely disregard half the info to make a story to suit your narrative. Take a look at the research on how lack of fire is far worse for the environment long term than having fire. Removal of older, unhealthy or damaged trees actually improves the health of the forest in general by removing breading grounds for destructive insects and disease. Canada is watching the health of their forests degrade over decades and science has largely attributed it to the act of not allowing regular fires to cleanse the environment. What may look "nicer" in the short term can be very damaging in the long term. An older, ailing population is not always a long term healthy population.

[@chir0pter]

There is no binary "fire" and "lack of fire". These Tasmanian rainforest ecosystems do not normally see natural fire, and burning them destroys them. Moreover, in many forests, even where fire is more common, fire is rare and when it happens is seasonal, in the wet season during thunderstorms. Humans set fires far above the background rate, and they often do it, intentionally or not, during dry season when there would be no natural ignition source (lightning) and thus cause greater destruction than natural. Pointing to what the Aborigines did is not appropriate management either. Aborigines were responsible for converting rainforest into wet sclerophyll and wet sclerophyll into xeric parkland or grassland - in places like Fraser Island, rainforest is actually coming back under modern fire management, which presents a problem for some restricted distribution wet sclerophyll species that the Aborigines burned out of the mainland millennia ago!

[@daviddavidson1417]

That's normal backburning though, not clearcutting and burning the waste.

[@barnysadventures]

@@chir0pter although I agree with much of what you say, I must disagree on one point. As a firefighter of many years I can tell you that lightning ignited fires happen commonly and all year round, and much of it is from dry storms, summer, winter, spring and Autumn. The most damaging fires are the summer ones due to their excessive heat, but they are never planned fires.

[@chir0pter]

@@barnysadventures "lightning ignited fires happen commonly and all year round" This actually totally depends on where you are. In some regions there is essentially no storm activity, dry or not, outside of the wet season. And every gradation and permutation in between.

[@barnysadventures]

@@chir0pter OK, now I know it is pointless talking anymore with you. Last time I checked we were not talking about Northern Australia. All of Tasmania can have lightning activity anytime of the year.