July 30th, 2025Your Say…

Re The Local front page stories of June 30 and July 14 reporting ‘Forest destruction grief’, many in the ‘Wombat Forest community’ have a completely alternate view.
The repeated reference to ‘salvage logging’ occurring is incorrect as salvage logging is the felling of trees whereas what in fact is being conducted is storm debris cleanup of some of the uprooted trees from the June 2021 ‘Big Storm’ where over a million trees were uprooted in an extra-tropical cyclonic event.
Members of the forest community are thankful these works are being conducted strategically along roadsides and near townships providing much improved fire-fighting access.
Additionally hollow and moss-covered logs and many others are retained to meet Ecological Vegetation Class benchmarks for habitat and environmental health.

• Gary McIntosh, Bullarto

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