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On the Horizon 23C: The State Forests of Western Mass
Western Massachusetts is very differently organized from the more dominant eastern side of the Commonwealth. Throughout much of Berkshire County in particular, the state forests share names with potentially namesake towns, a feature that also continues into select portions of Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Worcester Counties. In Hampden County, Tolland and Granville are names of towns where state forests exist under such town names. In Berkshire County, Otis and Florida may be additional […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/on-the-horizon-23c-the-state-forests-of-western-mass/
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Bellingen core koala habitat and denial 1/2
Australia's foundation rests on the erroneous act of 'terra nullius'. The British declared the continent ‘vacant’, ‘without settled inhabitants or settled law’. The denial of the existence of the Indigenous peoples and their cultures has detrimental consequences right into the 21 century.
Similarly, all that is impeding on settlers' livestock or crop interests is declared a pest and usually leads to the eradication of Australian endemic flora and fauna.
Land use for extractive purposes, such as monoculture plantations, often has remnants of native vegetation and with time endemic wildlife populate these habitats. The Australian government, having signed various international commitments to biodiversity and climate transition, is under pressure to conform to these environmental agreements.
Endangered or threatened species could pose an 'obstacle' to traditional 'business as usual' such as logging, deforestation and clear felling operations. Then it is best to not acknowledge the existence of these animals and plants.
This could take the form of maps (Koala habitat maps seem to not cover State forests in NSW ) and a database glitch could possibly erase data collected by citizen scientists. Or the State Forest corporation could just be a priori exempt from having to address biodiversity flora and fauna. Managed data sparsity also could lead one to a conclusion that 'nothing lives there.' Koalas in this case are non-existent. In an obstacle free plantation, clear felling can take place with a good conscience. Should a glider or koala stray into the native forest it might just become 'collateral damage' in the normal 'harvesting' operations.
>Bellingen core koala habitat and denial 2/2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111118750606893004#TerraNullius #koalas #StateForests #ForestryCorporation #NSWLogging #ClearFelling #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #denial #biodiversity #extinction #BiodiversityEmergency #ClimateEmergency #biodiversity
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"Forest Culture in Relation to Industrial Pursuits", 1 8 7 1
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller on forestry:"Strange as it may appear, an impression seems to be prevailing in these communities, as if our forests have to serve no other purposes but to provide wood for our immediate and present wants, be it fuel or timber."
"For even after warning of climatic changes, and after the commencing scarcity of wood, no forest administration … has been as yet initiated in any portion of Australia". Wilderness remained "unguarded" and in some places was "already annihilated".
"No statesman, I feel assured, would want to impoverish our woods at the expense of the next generation."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-09/melbourne-cbd-bourke-street-car-crash-one-dead-five-injured/102834812
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWlogging #NativeForests #ClearFelling #destruction #degradation #StateForests #SaveTuckersNob #fires #firestorm #bushfires #colonial #plantations #botany #koalas #climate #biodiversity #NatureRights #commons #Ecology #biosphere #EnvironmentalManagementImage: Koala habitat: Bellingen, Tuckers Nob State Forest, 2023
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We just have to get out of logging
"Conservationists claim harvesting operations are mismanaged, logged too intensively and come at a cost to the taxpayer and the environment."
"Dailan Pugh from the North East Forest Alliance says the biggest problem is the loss of mature trees, which are the homes and future for wildlife...We need to give our wildlife a chance to recover, we need to value our forests for the water they yield and — most importantly — the carbon they take out of the atmosphere."
"The NSW government has committed to creating a Great Koala National Park, which will take in existing state forests that span from the Clarence Valley to south of Coffs Harbour. Concerns over dwindling koala numbers across NSW led the Natural Resources Commission to lead independent work on how koalas responded to harvesting in state forests".
"Victoria and WA will stop native timber logging in 2024"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/nsw-timber-industry-awaits-answers-on-native-forests-koala-park/102775084
#CourtInjunctions #Law #logging #StateForests #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #GKNP #NSW #biodiversity #climate #wildlife #NativeForest #StopLogging #koalas