Logging in the Garden Route National Park

[H. erectus]

Right on the button RP,.. the red button so to speak!!!

Secured for ten years, what a joke!!!

[Richprins]

So someone has aquired very rare and expensive wood very cheaply?

I'll ask our woodwork teacher!


Why don't SP just leave nature to run its course? Note the reference to wattle not being a threat in an established forest...Doesn't make sense...in other Parks alien vegetation is simply eradicated, which would be fine! So take out the wattles, sell them at top dollar, and leave the rest!

[H. erectus]

Yep RP, there will forevevr be a clever argument to counter
bad judgement in the past for better in future!!

Some of those dumb 'ol trees happen to grow older than
some clever ones that will determine the trees future, in the market
place!!!

[Richprins]

Spoke to our woodwork teacher, a very experienced artisan who knows axactly how those auctions work, and he agrees the prices are dubious and the process flawed.

Prices may be lower than the far greater commercial ones, but that could be linked to the bulk trunk lots involved, but not that low. The harvester should not ethically be allowed to buy the remaining wood as well.

[H. erectus]

Received my Wild magazine!!

Happened to have some time on hand at 7.00 am
before work. Sat in the car reading about 2020
road to mission achievements or whatever.

There Sanparks are so proud to be the curators of
Yellow wood trees. These trees become very old and
one mentioned in the article was estimated to be a
thousand years old!!!

Why are Sanparks hacking at these trees????

[Richprins]

Oh! The teacher was also surprised that "live" yellowwoods were being harvested. All previous auctions used "recently deceased" indigenous mammoths....

[H. erectus]

Again another topic reeking with abuse!!!, to be quite simple.

[Richprins]

From 2010/11


Poplap wrote:Thanks for the images, RP.


If I am not mistaken, F******** circulated an e-mail, stating that SANParks was not making money through this process, but actually losing money. Do you still have that e-mail? Please?



iNdlovu wrote:If I recall it went something along the lines of 'SanParks is setting up the loggers for failure'. Apparently with the difficulty in retrieveing the timber from the hard to reach places, it is going to cost more than what they tendered for or something like that.

[H. erectus]

And 'o that wild magazine comes across so pretty
and that all is just perfect. Was this auction ever
properly advertised to the public and internationally???

[H. erectus]

from the hard to reach places[/color]

Why harvest there to begin with??? A public place????