Falls economy

John Piesse, Doctors for Native Forests, Kew

The Sunday Age (Letter), 17/12/2000

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The reasons the Sabine Falls area should be protected from clearfelling relate not so much to the threat to old-growth forest, as Graeme Gooding quibbles, but rather to the outstanding scenic values and potential for tourism of the area that logging would destroy.

Forest-based tourism in the Otways could easily grow to exceed the annual economic value of the timber industry. But this would require protection from clearfelling of key areas such as Sabine Falls.

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