Otway Forest Issues
The following webpages have beed retained as a resouce to explain why OREN conducted a camapign to have clearfell logging in the Otways banned.
Timber vs non-timber forest values
Up until the time the Victorian Government decided to ban clearfell logging and woodchipping in the Otways, the logging industry and pro-logging government forestry managers were politically successful in promoting timber/woodchip values as the most important or dominant value in the Otway forests.
OREN on the other hand, promoted non-timber forest values as being more important.
Non-timber forest values
The following is a list of the non-timber forest values and associated background to why they were important and threatened by logging practices.
- Otway forests supply water to over 250,000 people in Geelong and South West Victoria.
- Otway forest based tourism and the Great Ocean Road.
- Endangered species.
- Forest Biodiversity values.
- Landscape & nature conservation values.
- Otway Cool Temperate Rainforest.
- Bushfire.
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