I just hope Evan has a chance to meet some Japanese Foresters and forest owners, so he can explain and compare his (too many) years of large scale clearfelling, (forest mining - take or burn it all = ‘start and stop’, close down the bank & factory method.
He may like to introduce himself as Tasmania’s Chief Warlord, leading the top organisation in defending pioneers species (Eucalypt and Pine) against invading Rainforest vegetation (natural succession).
Telling the Japanese foresters that without his “cut and burn” method, Tasmania’s natural forests would eventually deteriorate into useless, uncommercial scrub.
Imagine Evan, standing in front of a clearfelled and burned 100ha logging coupe and with a straight face telling Japanese and Swiss and other international professional foresters:” This is a sustainable working forest, maintained and managed for multiple use. See it, smell it, feel it” , we are clearfalling professionals, battle hardened, proud and well paid.
Be aware that Japan’s forest industry used to produce nearly double the volume of timber than Australia, but the local foresters can no longer compete commercially against cheap imports from overseas forest mining operations.
Evan’s clearfelling and slash burning is unsustainable, as it is more likely than not, that future generations of forest managers will remember Evan and his likeminded friends as people that followed a (by now well outdated) agricultural patchwork theory that was first invented by the German pen-pushers in the mid to late 1800s, the Land Rent Theory / Bodenreinertragslehre.
More about forest economics:
THE GERMAN STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE ‘BODENREINERTRAGSLEHRE’ (LAND RENT THEORY)
AND ‘WALDREINERTRAGSLEHRE’ (THEORY OF THE HIGHEST REVENUE) BELONGS TO THE PAST - BUT WHAT IS LEFT? Prof. Dr. Bernhard Möhring, Institute for Forest Economics, http://www.forst.uni-goettingen.de/index_e.shtml
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