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	IDENTIFICATION OF THE IMPACTS OF CLEARFELLING OPERATIONS ON LOTIC MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH-WEST IRELAND ...
		This study focuses on possible effects of clearfelling on stream ecosystems, in particular on macroinvertebrates.
		Streams adjacent to sixteen clearfell sites in the Munster region have been sampled for macroinvertebrates pre and post harvesting under a wide range of conditions over a period of two years.
		Clearfelling does not appear to be a major disturbance to macroinvertebrate communities, except in situations were there was extensive, direct interaction between machinery and the stream, such as stream crossings
	www.benthos.org /database/nabstracts99.cfm/ID/47 (237 words)

	Forest management in temperate and boreal forests: current practices and the scope for implementing sustainable forest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearfelling imitates, to some degree, the effect of fire with one difference: that the trees are harvested before nature consumes them.
		Controlled burning of clearfelled areas after harvesting is sometimes carried out as a reforestation measure, but nowadays it is increasingly used to enhance biodiversity by encouraging the survival of organisms that depend on this type of event.
		Another reason in favour of the clearfelling practice is that experience has shown (not least in the Nordic countries) that, where selective harvesting systems have been practiced over long periods of time, the result has been detrimental and even catastrophic for the condition of the forest.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X4109E/X4109E08.htm (1771 words)

	Eden clearfelling continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The National Parks Association today challenged the NSW government to stop the whispering campaign by its minders that there is no clearfelling of native forests in Eden now or in the past and that it is all a 'greenie' myth.
		The NSW Forestry Commission (State Forests of NSW) claims this is not clearfelling and describes it as "integrated harvesting".
		Clearfelling in Eden occurs in a checkerboard fashion, with alternate coupes clear-felled until the entire area of several hundred thousand hectares has been logged over the planned period of 40 years, although the natural cycle of growth and decay of most of the Eden old growth trees is close to 400 years.
	dazed.org /npa/press/19981031.htm (1250 words)

	Seedstock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seedstock are trees left after clearfelling to provide seed for natural regeneration.
		Often proponents of clearfelling would overstate the ability of these trees to rectify the damage wrought from the clearfelling operation.
		Seed "throw" was at best unreliable especially where profound damage had taken place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seedstock (85 words)

	Untitled Document
		The clearfell ages screen is used to define the minimum and maximum clearfelling (CF) ages for each croptype.
		Note that maximum clearfelling ages should be set high enough that there is sufficient flexibility in the model in the management of mature stands and low enough that problem size is not unnecessarily large.
		The maximum clearfell ages in the first period also need to be equal or higher than the ages of the appropriate current stands.
	www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz /courseinfo/msci/msci480/LOGHtml/clearfell.html (493 words)

	Greenpeace & The Wilderness Society \| Styx Valley \| Tasmania - FAQ
		Clearfelling in the Styx Valley is already taking place at an alarming rate.
		Time is rapidly running out and it may be only a matter of months before clearfelling of the ancient trees begins in the area that Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society are protecting.
		Greenpeace is supporting The Wilderness Society in calling for the immediate end to clearfelling the ancient tall trees of Tasmania and the adoption of a National Park plan to save not only the giants of the Styx Valley but the other irreplaceable ancient forests of Tasmania.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /tasmania/styx_faq.html (1441 words)

	Dr Christine Sharp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Clearfelling is enormously intense in its impacts on forests.
		"Clearfelling has been enormously unpopular since its introduction, with the inception of woodchipping, in 1975," Dr Sharp said.
		Dr Sharp said that woodchipping marri had caused clearfelling to be adopted.
	www.mp.wa.gov.au /sharp/issues/forest/clearfell.htm (160 words)

	ACT Forests - Clearfelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearfelling involves the removal of all trees from the area being harvested.
		It is undertaken when the plantation reaches its final rotation age and aims to maximise the production of high quality sawlog with the remainder of the resource extracted as other products.
		ACT Forests generally clearfells its plantations between the age of 28 to 32 years depending on the site and stand quality.
	www.forests.act.gov.au /clearfelling.html (223 words)

	Response to the advert
		The incredible destruction of the leatherwood rich southern state forests by the often brutal application of clearfelling and burning has been witnessed by the beekeepers and reported to Forestry Tasmania (and its predecessors) as well as numerous committees, inquiries and reviews over the last 30 years.
		Clearfelling and burning leatherwood rich forests destroys leatherwood and does not establish multiple use forests.
		Beekeepers aren't just sitting around waiting for the last leatherwood tree to be clearfelled and burnt - we are trying to secure funding for a new model of leatherwood distribution as part of a move to establish a statewide floral resource database.
	au.geocities.com /southernbranch/factsonbees.html (1215 words)

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		Although clearfelling enables high volume flow of timber for minimal labour input, the practice causes the destruction of an estimated 1.4 million tonnes of special species timbers (including myrtle, sassafrass and celery-top pine) annually.
		Additionally, clearfelling forecloses on any other potential economic value (refer to Section 3.2) at the forest site until a new ‘fibre farm’ has regenerated which may be anything up to decades or centuries, depending upon the success or otherwise of the regeneration.
		Clearfelling in Tasmania is leading to the elimination of quality hardwoods and specialty timbers in state forest and will destroy the opportunity for a skills-based timber industry in the future if quality native forests continue to be clearfelled.
	www.aph.gov.au /senate/Committee/rrat_ctte/completed_inquiries/2002-04/plantation_forests/submissions/sub73.doc (3306 words)

	Forest management in temperate and boreal forests: current practices and the scope for implementing sustainable forest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In terms of profitability and simplifying forest operations, clearfelling and the subsequent cultivation of even-aged planted forest stands in the next generation, will always generally be the best forest management option.
		Clearfelled areas should nowadays be designed to fit into the landscape and special areas and an appropriate number of old trees should be left during clearfelling operations.
		In order to plan such operations effectively, it may be necessary to survey the clearfelling area, the whole forest estate or even adjoining areas as well in order to implement sustainable forest management.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/X4109E/X4109E07.htm (1615 words)

	East Gippsland forest issues
		The long battle by locals to obtain a 28% release of water from the Jindabyne dam for the Snowy River could be partly or wholly negated by clearfelling its major sub-catchments, scientists have warned.
		Clearfelling old growth and mature forests is expected to continue until 2030, when all accessible areas will be in a young regrowth stage.
		Clearfelling, coupled with the effects of climate change, could cause critical water shortages in the near future.
	eastgippsland.net.au /articles/summer2001_2 (3149 words)

	Tasmanian research shows the public sees benefits in alternatives to clearfelling : Media Releases : News : The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearfelling is considered by the forest industry to be a safe and effective method of harvesting and regenerating wet Eucalypt forests, but it concerns many people.
		A second aim was to investigate some of the underlying bases for differences of view about clearfelling in Tasmanian society, in particular people’s values in relation to the natural environment and their beliefs about clearfelling.
		To understand the underlying factors beneath people’s views about clearfelling and the other harvest systems, a questionnaire was developed to measure peoples’ values, beliefs about consequences and acceptance of the different harvest systems.
	uninews.unimelb.edu.au /articleid_2514.html (967 words)

	OREN Info sheet - Logging in Vic / An environmental economic approach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearfelling is the tern used to describe the way forests are logged around the world to today.
		In human terms we will be logging forest when they are only 13 to 20 years of age and never allowing them to even reach their 21st birthday let alone middle or even old age.
		We have seen that current logging practices in terms of the native forests are not sustainable, and that native forests values are destroyed with clear felling.
	www.oren.org.au /archives/inf_sus.htm (577 words)

	CCF
		Clearfelling is defined in the text as the cutting-down of all trees on an area of more than 0.25 ha.
		We estimate that this system is employed in at least 90% of managed forests with an average size of clearfelled coupe of between 5 and 10 hectares, although there is appreciable regional variation.
		In particular, continuous cover forestry is seen as a means of reducing the impact of clearfelling and the associated changes that this produces in forest landscapes and habitats.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /TreeCultivation&Uses/CCF/ccf.htm (4234 words)

	ABC Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If it was a site where no treefelling had occurred previously, you are upsetting (I would like to use the word destroyed, but it is emotive) a climactic environment, where the plants and animals have interacted over hundreds or thousands of years to generate this local environment.
		Clearfelling is destruction and any voice that says that the Logging companies go in and reseed the forest are not giving a full picture of what the forest was about.
		Clearfelling is analogous to massive storm damage or fire.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/k2/stn/archives/archive12/newposts/75/topic75536.shtm (3302 words)

	Continuous Cover Forestry
		Across most parts of Europe CCF is believed to be a woodland management type that contributes to sustainable forestry not only in terms of timber production but also with respect to nature conservation and the promotion of the recreational and landscape value of woodlands.
		CCF is usually associated with greater biodiversity as often more than just one target tree species is involved, and the complex stand structure leaves niches for additional species and facilitates the incorporation of "old growth" features.
		Abandoning clearfelling practice means that major disruptions to the landscape are avoided.
	tyfcoed.bangor.ac.uk /CCF.htm (581 words)

	The Wilderness Society Media Release - New Tasmanian community alliance to campaign for old growth forests
		The Wilderness Society is pleased to be a member of a new alliance of prominent Tasmanian businesses, organisations and individuals which has called on the Tasmanian Government and opposition to end the clearfelling of Tasmania's oldgrowth forests.
		The coalition, called the Tasmanian Community Alliance, will run a $100,000 TV advertising campaign calling for a decision to end the clearfelling of oldgrowth forests, and to protect the special oldgrowth forests identified by Tasmania Together by the end of the year.
		In the case of old growth logging clearfelling forests this was definitely not the case.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/20388/20030701/www.wilderness.org.au/member/tws/news/media/20020617_mr.html (833 words)

	3/4/2004 -- TASMANIA: Clearfelling loss to cut 1200 jobs
		An end to clearfelling of the State's old-growth forests could result in the loss of 1200 jobs, Forestry Tasmania general manager Evan Rolley said yesterday.
		Mr Rolley was responding to the State Government's request for Forestry Tasmania to explore alternatives to clearfelling old- growth forest on public land in a way that would maintain industry jobs, safety and wood yields.
		Clearfelling fails, however, when it comes to maintaining biodiversity and an acceptable landscape.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=30653 (813 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southern Beekeepers Association president Hedley Hoskinson told a function at Woodbridge yesterday beekeepers were being marginalised and the state's current forestry practices were impacting heavily on their livelihoods.
		"And now clearfelling and burning is pushing them out of the remaining rich areas of leatherwood left around Lake Gordon," he said.
		Mr Hoskinson called on the Government to replace clearfelling and burning with selective harvesting in leatherwood areas.
	www.beekeeping.co.nz /print.php?sid=1269 (319 words)

	Clever forest design using Wagners Blendersaumslag stabilises a Canterbury Plains pine forest against windthrow.
		Stands were laid out to suit progressive clearfelling in strips, with four strips each 120 metres wide in each cutting section, aligned at 90 degrees to the north west wind.
		At the time of clearfelling the 32 year old strip, the sudden exposure to turbulent winds will not only affect the 8 year old stand downwind, but also the lee of the 24 year old stand upwind of the clearfelled strip.
		Progressive clearfelling in strips is noted as providing the optimal streamlining for groups of stands, as well as limiting wind effects by causing gradual changes in canopy stress and changes in turbulence scale.
	homepages.caverock.net.nz /~bj/plainsfor.htm (6463 words)

	ForestNetwork_What is clearfelling?
		In simple terms, clearfelling is the removal or burning of nearly all the living matter in a given area of forest known as a coupe.
		Unfortunately the clearfell method of logging has proven to be a disaster for the environment as some coupes have failed to regenerate at all after logging and have had to be replanted by hand with non-local species or not replanted at all in some cases.
		It is abundantly clear that the real motive behind clearfelling is commercial and political expedience.
	www.forest-network.org /Docs/clearf.htm (2042 words)

	Jobs the key to old-growth clearfelling in Tas: Latham. 29/01/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Speaking in Queensland yesterday, Mr Latham said his main concern was jobs, when considering the future of old-growth clearfelling.
		But Tasmanian Deputy Premier Paul Lennon, who is expecting a report from Forestry Tasmania on whether old-growth clearfelling can be stopped by 2010, is not so sure.
		"The reason that clearfelling commenced in old-growth forests in Tasmania in the first instance was because too many people working in the forests were dying at work."
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1033608.htm (266 words)

	'Water and Waste' Clearfelling Melbourne's forested water catchements : Melbourne Indymedia
		Clearfell logging in the Central Highlands in Victoria, is adversely affecting the water quantity and quality of forested water catchments where Melbourne recieves up to 40% of its water supply.
		You are also aware of the effect on yeild and quality of water from clearfell coups.
		You are aware that the intensity of the 39 fires was contributed to by human actions.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/05/69913_comment.php (1441 words)

	In defense of Dingo Creek
		The clearfelling of the Dingo Creek catchment, on the boundary of the Errinundra National Park in East Gippsland, was unlawful.
		DNRE staff were under the impression that any forest zoned as available for logging could be clearfelled, and that the Forest Code of Practice was not legally binding, so there were no limits to the damage they could cause.
		Inspection of clearfells nearby reveals most of the understorey species have not grown back, most of the fauna has not returned, but rabbits and foxes have invaded in huge numbers.
	www.geco.org.au /legal.html (1104 words)

	[No title]
		Cheek had signalled his policy initiative within hours of assuming the Liberal Party leadership, declaring he wanted an end to clearfelling of old-growth forests but he was heavied and forced to publicly declare his and his party’s commitment to the Regional Forest Agreement.
		He wrote The Liberal Vision for Old Growth Forests which in summary concluded that that it was possible “to find the right balance between maintaining the asset that our old-growth forests are, for tourism and for future generations to use and enjoy, and allowing sustainable use of that asset for timber and timber-related industries’’.
		Such logging does not destroy the surrounding forest area, as is the case with clearfelling.
	www.tasmaniantimes.com /jurassic/cheek1.html (729 words)

	The Wilderness Society: Boral's Forestry Operations in Tasmania - Sourcing Woodchips from Clearfelled Native Forests - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		68% of all logging operations (by area) on public land for 1998-99 are clearfelling and burning (including a small number which are clearing for agriculture).
		If Boral takes approximately 25% of all high-quality logs, but only 12% of all high-quality logs come from non-clearfelling operations, then it is impossible for Boral to be sourcing all of its logs from non-clearfelling operations.
		With this information, the onus is on Boral to explain why its proportion of logs from clearfelled forests would be less than that of other mills.
	www.nccnsw.org.au /members/tws/projects/Forests/boraltascl.html (457 words)

	Greenpeace & The Wilderness Society \| Styx Valley \| Tasmania - Timeline
		Global animal rights group PETA and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde publicly condemn the use of 1080 poison in clearfelling to deliberately kill native wildlife living in Tasmania's forests.
		It admits: "On the downside, the target to end clearfelling in areas of high conservation value by 1 January 2003 was not met." It revises the deadline, proposing "complete phase out of clearfelling in old growth forests by 2010".
		Tasmania Together, an initiative of the Tasmanian government to "allow the people of Tasmania to have a say in their long-term social, economic and environmental future", calls for the end to clearfelling in old growth forests of high conservation value by 1 January 2003.
	weblog.greenpeace.org /tasmania/styx_timeline.html (1203 words)

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