Stewards of the blackberry patch

Pamela Lloyd, West Brunswick, The Age (letter), 14/4/2002

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Like an invading army, the logging juggernauts plunder the forest then move on to the next treasure trove with feckless disregard for their damaging legacy: wildlife devastation, ugly scarring coupes, and disrupted soil.

What is the Department of Natural Resources doing about weed invasion at Goolengook? Walking down Greens Road, a disused logging track, is practically impossible because it has become a linear blackberry plantation. A pristine mountain stream trickles over the track, bearing the feral seeds as it plunges down to the Goolengook Valley below. Just another of the costs that our environment must bear so that a few loggers can keep their jobs, the Japanese and multinationals their woodchip profits, while the department seems to have no idea of what "stewardship" means.


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