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Forest Facts

Agent Tavis has been sifting through the governments own files to uncover these facts.

Forest Fact File Index

1. NOTES

   
   

2. WHATS LEFT?

   1. Australian forest cover - pre-Euro / post-Euro (1989 DATA)
   2. Australian forest cover - Resource Assessment Commission
   3. Australian woodland cover
   4. Australian forest tenures - Resource Assessment Commission
   5. Australian forest tenures
   6. Australia's availibility of logging
   7. Victorian forest cover
   8. Victorian forest cover of public land and its reservation status
   9. Victorian land mass, total, freehold, private
   10. Victorian rate of forest loss
   11. Victoria's rate of forest harvesting on public land
   12. Victoria's land area and land covered by forests
   
   

3. PUBLIC OPINION

   1. Woodchips to Japan - Joint environment group commissioned report
   2. Forest and school childrens' opinions
   3. Petitions on woodchip debate
   
   

4. WOOD CHIPPING

   1. International Plantations
   2. Not a saw log driven activity
   
   

5. EMPLOYMENT

   1. Jobs decreasing in forest and wood products industries
   2. Jobs decreasing in forest and wood products industries - Detailed table
   3. Fall in forestry and manufacturing 71-91 Australian Bureau of Statistics
   4. Reduction in forestry jobs - reasons
   5. Employment type in gorest industries
   6. Employment in timber towns - only four towns with over 20% in Australia
   7. Listing of timber towns of 10% or more in Victoria
   8. Native forest vs plantation employment in Australian Towns 1991
   9. Employment losses from removal of logging from National Estate in South East Australia.
   10. Employment Losses from removal of logging from Keating government's 509 logging coupes.
   
   

6. ECONOMICS

   1. Subsidation of logging - The Age, 25/5/94.
   2. Subsidation of logging (Vic) - Andrew Dagrun Jan 1995
   3. Subsidation of logging (Vic) - The Australian, 12/7/95
   4. Australian debt to forestry - Resource Assessment Commission
   5. Wood Vs Water (Thomson)
   6. Forest types with negative cash flows - Box Iron Bark
   7. Big profits for Harris-Dishower
   
   

7. POLITICS

   1. Preference blocking or the Non-exhaustive Preferential Vote
   
   

8. GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT

   1. Hardwood grading report DCNR
   2. 1080 Failed regeneration and browsing
   3. Monitoring 1% of the time
   4. Audit by DCNR of the Code of Forest Practice for Timber Production 93-4.
   5. Forest Watches - Environmentalist's Audit of the Code of Forest Practice for Timber Production
   
   

9. SUSTAINABLITY

   1. Resource Assement Commision and Commonwealth EPA Views
   
   

10. FLORA

    1. Historic Fire Regimes and Plant Changes
    2. Jacobian Forest Classification
    
    

11. RAINFOREST

    1. DCNR views on rainforest in Victoria - from DCNR facts sheets
    
    

12. REGENERATION

    1. Failed regeneration in high elevation mixed species forests
    2. Area of failed regeneration in Victoria = 25,000 ha
    3. Regenration costs in Alexandra Region 1993
    4. Cost Of regenerating (No Ref.)
    
    

13. PLANTATIONS

    1. Volume of Australian plantations
    2. Decline of native forest logging in favour of plantations
    3. Hamilton (Resource Assessment Commission), The Australian 12/7/1995, (The Australian Institute)
    4. Planatation history
    5. Plantation market share of sawn timber 1975/1990/1995
    6. Dept Conservation & Natural Resources' view