Only the fringe of Australia is timber-clad, and there are even gaps in the fringe. Nobody knows what area of forest we actually possess, and estimates of the [?] of our commercial timbers are most unreliable. Alienation of land unsuitable for anything but the growing of trees still goes on, accompanied by the wholesale destruction of giants that have taken generations to grow. Some of the States are now waking up to a realisation of the seriousness of the position, but others ore content to leave their forests at the mercy of the politicians, whose inability to handle them as a national asset is notorious. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3,273 wordsOn the north-west coast of Tasmania, the most backward State in the Commonwealth as far as forestry is concerned. Despite the fact that is is really the only true forest State it has not even established a Forestry Depar ent, and is still wasting its timber ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 108 words[?] red ironbark, a timber of exceptionally fine quality. that does well on poor soil, great areas of which, stretching from the River Goulburn westward to the Northern Pyrnees, has been [?] In its forest state that land bore the best crop it was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 28 Aug 1918, Page 11
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