HVEC Ta Ann celery top pine action
6 February 2012. Photo: Ula Majewski
Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe to be more than 250 years old.
The sample was obtained from controversial Picton Valley logging coupe PC024B, where logging in high conservation value forest have been halted by conservationists this morning. Eight people have disrupted logging this morning, by setting up a tree sit.
The celery top pine is an example of the destruction being wrought upon all elements of the Picton Valley forest, whether or not Ta Ann takes every log.
The sample of the celery top pine clearly demonstrates that the forest currently being logged in the Picton Valley is part of an old growth ecosystem.
Furthermore, sections of the coupe were mapped as old growth forest during the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement process. This coupe is being logged to supply wood to Ta Ann, and their wood supply requirements are cited in official documents as the driver for logging this coupe which is inside the 430,000 hectares.
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