#loggingindustry — Public Fediverse posts

Oh no, not the bison again

The Trump Administration’s Latest Target: This Woolly American Icon >
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-administration-doug-burgum-interior-american-bison-buffalo-ban-blm-grazing/

The Forest Service “Reorganizes” Under Trump
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump

Image: Photograph from 1892 of a pile of American bison skulls in Detroit (MI) waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal. Wikipedia

#biodiversity #conservation #bison #wildlife #LandManagement #CattleGrazing #forests #LoggingIndustry #Pastoralism #extraction #nature #SoonHereToo #SettlerSociety #meat

Smoulderscape

Still suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

Déjà vu
* " “Rome Plows,” massive bulldozers with an armor-fortified cutting blade, could clear 1,000 acres a day. Enormous concussive bombs, known as “daisy cutters”, flattened forests and set off shock waves killing everything within a 3,000-foot (900-meter) radius, down to earthworms in the soil. " >>
https://theconversation.com/50-years-later-vietnams-environment-still-bears-the-scars-of-war-and-signals-a-dark-future-for-gaza-and-ukraine-254971

* Ecocide and the history of herbicidal warfare in the Vietnam War >>
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/vietnam-war-1962-1975/events/aftermath/agent-orange

#Pollution #Smoke #pollution #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #BellingenLogging #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest pile burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

"You can kill a person with post-harvest burning just as well as with an axe”.
(Bertolt Brech, slightly altered)

"Structural violence
is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs or rights."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

When residents express their concerns about the prolonged toxic pollution to the relevant state institutions, the response is along the lines of 'close up your house, stay indoors or move away and shut up.'

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116146034632404631

(The original quote: "You can kill a person with an apartment just as well as with an axe”. Heinrich Zille/ B. Brecht)

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Forestry - The production of toxic pollution to get a few woodchips out of complex biodiversity

Before the leftovers of the cellulose factory (forest 'plantations') in this area are incinerated, a copious cocktail of pesticides is applied.

#pesticides #air #SprayDrift #water #soil #health #crucial #starane #AssociatePulse #PileBurning #biodiversity #wildlife #FCNSW #TuckersNobSF #Bellingenshire #BellingenLogging ##Gleniffer #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm

The government's Forestry Corporation of NSW is still polluting the Bellingen, Gleniffer and Repton area with toxic smoke. Wet piles and the green timber piles are smouldering. After a cocktail of pesticides was applied, the wet piles with green timber were set alight and are left smouldering for days, maximising the toxic smoke pollution over a wide area.

These negative externalities occur when the consumption or production of a commodity (cellulose) causes a harmful effect to a third party.

It appears that the Forestry Corporation and EPA evade or pass responsibility and the many concerned residents ring 000 and overburden the small Gleniffer Bushfire Brigade now...

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 1 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134685710504402
Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 2 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134917857123855

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care

Image: Tuckers Nob SF smouldering after pesticide applications

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 2

Negative externalities occur when the consumption or production of a commodity causes a harmful effect to a third party.

Bushfire smoke: There is no safe level of exposure. >
https://theconversation.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-bushfire-smoke-272065

Hundreds died from the effects of smoke inhalation caused by Australia’s 2019-2020 black summer bushfires and many more are likely to have long-term health issues." >
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/22/smoke-pollution-from-wildfires-may-be-killing-an-extra-12000-people-a-year-new-research-suggests

"Breathing polluted air may do more than harm your lungs — it could also increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease." >
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260220010836.htm

Fire-induced health impacts by the Forestry Corporation of NSW Pt 1 >
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116134685710504402

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #TheGreatkoalaNationalPark #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #EPA #COPD #AirQuality #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance

Image: Forestry Corporation signage: Smoke Hazard, Roses Rd., Gleniffer

Illegal logging claim in Mistake State Forest in the Nambucca Valley

“Currently 40% of logging operations underway in public native forests on the North Coast are within the Great Koala National Park’s proposed boundaries. These are smash and grab operations” Susie Russell, The North Coast Environment Council.
>>
https://www.ncec.org.au/illegal_logging_claim_in_mistake_state_forest_in_the_nambucca_valley
#Nambucca #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Illegal logging claim in Mistake State Forest in the Nambucca Valley

“Currently 40% of logging operations underway in public native forests on the North Coast are within the Great Koala National Park’s proposed boundaries. These are smash and grab operations” Susie Russell, The North Coast Environment Council.
>>
https://www.ncec.org.au/illegal_logging_claim_in_mistake_state_forest_in_the_nambucca_valley
#Nambucca #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Illegal logging claim in Mistake State Forest in the Nambucca Valley

“Currently 40% of logging operations underway in public native forests on the North Coast are within the Great Koala National Park’s proposed boundaries. These are smash and grab operations” Susie Russell, The North Coast Environment Council.
>>
https://www.ncec.org.au/illegal_logging_claim_in_mistake_state_forest_in_the_nambucca_valley
#Nambucca #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Illegal logging claim in Mistake State Forest in the Nambucca Valley

“Currently 40% of logging operations underway in public native forests on the North Coast are within the Great Koala National Park’s proposed boundaries. These are smash and grab operations” Susie Russell, The North Coast Environment Council.
>>
https://www.ncec.org.au/illegal_logging_claim_in_mistake_state_forest_in_the_nambucca_valley
#Nambucca #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Illegal logging claim in Mistake State Forest in the Nambucca Valley

“Currently 40% of logging operations underway in public native forests on the North Coast are within the Great Koala National Park’s proposed boundaries. These are smash and grab operations” Susie Russell, The North Coast Environment Council.
>>
https://www.ncec.org.au/illegal_logging_claim_in_mistake_state_forest_in_the_nambucca_valley
#Nambucca #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Koalas stuck between highways and loggers
"After the timber is logged, the koalas are on their own."

"With the koalas' plantation home being harvested for timber all week, animal advocates predict the marsupials will flee to the closest patch of bush which is unfortunately located on the other side of a busy freeway."

“We are extremely worried about the future of these koalas because we've had four die in the last 12 months outside that plantation,” wildlife rescuer Jessica Robertson
https://au.news.yahoo.com/experts-block-plan-carry-koalas-across-busy-freeway-victoria-051855120.html
#koalas #wildlife #translocation #Ballarat #roads #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #extinction makers

The Great Koala National Park without any Koalas

"The proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the NSW Mid North Coast between Kempsey, Grafton and Armidale is home to 1 in 5 of the wild Koalas in New South Wales".
An excellent overview by Mark Graham >
https://1earthmedia.com/the-great-koala-national-park-without-any-koalas/

Taxpayers hit with $5 million bill for Forestry Corp to log koala habitat

NSW’s 12 Month’s of Operations Plan Portal shows that Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log 30,813ha (over 17%) of state forest that constitutes the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) proposal. "
https://1earthmedia.com/taxpayers-hit-with-5-million-bill-for-forestry-corp-to-log-koala-habitat/
#GKNP #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #Kalang #NambuccaRiver #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #water #biodiversity #extinction makers

Logging the Great Koala National Park, Tuckers Nob State forest, Bellingen

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #conservation #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction #climate #bushfires

The Bellingen logging sites, Tuckers Nob State forest, Gleniffer Road
It should have been a Great Koala National Park.
One can assume that the proposed logging along Tuckers Nob State forest, compartment 26/27 will also look like this.

#Bellingen #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #koalas #biodiversity #GKNP #TuckersNobSF #SaveTuckersNob #destruction
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