The News Review:
- Presidio branches out with eucalyptus swap
- Anti-logging activists ‘went easy on forestry workers’
- Tasmanian devils get support from pizza franchise
- North-East Tasmania gains from partnership
- Books of The Times In the Wilds of Tasmania the Impacts of Empire
Presidio branches out with eucalyptus swap
San Francisco Chronicle
Ehrlich said they all appear to be thriving. But blue gum trees are troublesome. The natives of Tasmania and New South Wales can grow 180 feet tall and live for 300 years. nce established they propagate with a feverish intensity said Barrie Coate a Los Gatos arborist and eucalyptus expert. ‘Spread like rats’”They spread like rats” Coate said of a species that started out in the 1800s on a few plantations and has become one of the dominant tree species in coastal California. The trees constantly drop big branches and shed long strips of bark and everything that falls to the ground is flammable Coate said. Blue gum trees helped spread deadly flames during the catastrophic East Bay hills fire in 1991.
Anti-logging activists ‘went easy on forestry workers’
Sydney Morning Herald
Similar raids were staged today at woodchip facilities in Geelong in Victoria and at Eden and Newcastle in NSW. Two activists who locked themselves to a woodchip conveyer at the Gunns mill on Tasmania’s east coast were removed and charged with trespass. The protesters unfurled a banner reading No Climate Protection without Forest Protection and Gunns Climate Criminals. This was the second raid halting production at the Triabunna workplace in six months.
Tasmanian devils get support from pizza franchise
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North-East Tasmania gains from partnership
Tasmania Examiner
Mr Bartlett said the commitment to transport and road infrastructure would create jobs in the community. “Those projects will create jobs in building and construction on the ground and together with the federally funded schools and social housing programs I believe there will be more money coming into this area for infrastructure projects in the next 12 months than probably any time in the last two decades. ” During his visit to Scottsdale the Premier also visited a Housing Tasmania unit complex that has undergone renovations to increase energy efficiency as part of upgrades taking place across the State.
Books of The Times In the Wilds of Tasmania the Impacts of Empire
New York Times
” nce again he has taken a real-life figure from Tasmanian history as a starting point and worked an elaborate improvisation on that individual’s experiences. In “Fish” that person was a 19th-century convict and forger named William Buelow Gould who made a series of remarkable fish and bird paintings; in “Wanting” it is a young aborigine girl known as Mathinna who was adopted and later abandoned by the governor of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) the famed polar explorer Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Franklin. Skip to next paragraph.