Seaview Ridge

Adjacent to Wild Dog Ridge, this area has not been so fortunate in escaping the logging company. Once again our rainforest are being cut down for woodchips to make office paper and toilet paper. I stopped at a site that had just been finished. Blackened tree trunks were still smoldering from the fires that were lit to trigger the mountain ash seeds to germinate. As I climbed onto a smoking trunk of a large mountain ash there was only one question burning in my head. Why?

They had cut down the forest for woodchips and yet there were so many trees left lying on the ground. They had removed only a few species of trees and flattened everything else. But we don't clear fell anymore in Australia, that's not environmentally sound. The trees that were left standing were either long dead, or had died in the burning off. The fires may trigger seeds to germinate but the trees are not fire resistant. It leaves you with a feeling of complete waste.

But of course the trees grow back .... unless the mountain slides away first. A little further along a small track there was a considerable landslide where the entire side of the hill had slipped away. The cracks along the side of the road were an indication that the slopes were still unstable. Just a minor complication of logging in areas with high rainfall.