❓ Hon Peter Foss asks about the impact of deferring logging in Hacketts Gully. Hon Kim Chance responds that the deferral is temporary, part of a long-term plan, and aims to educate the public, with no expected resource impact.
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I refer to the Government’s announcement that it will defer the logging in Hacketts Gully for two years. (1) Is it intended that this resource will be replaced by a resource from another place? (2) If so, where? (3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE
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(1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(1) Is it intended that this resource will be replaced by a resource from another place? (2) If so, where? (3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(2) If so, where? (3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(1) Is it intended that this resource will be replaced by a resource from another place? (2) If so, where? (3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(2) If so, where? (3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(3) If not, how many resources will the industry be deprived of over the next two years because of the Government’s decision? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : (1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
(1)-(3) Hon Peter Foss’s first statement was correct. He indicated that the Hacketts Gully block - in fact it is Kalamunda 1 or 2 - has been deferred. It has not been set aside from the program, which the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides to the Forest Products Commission for harvesting. It has been deferred for two years. Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon Peter Foss: Will there be fewer resources in the next two years? Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
Hon KIM CHANCE: It is still in the general logging program. There is no need to contemplate a lesser or greater resource; it has no impact on the resource because it is still in the program. As many members would be aware, the forest is managed over a very long-term harvesting program. Indeed, the program contemplates a 200-year life of the forest. The setting aside for two years of one to three quite small blocks - Hacketts Gully and Kalamunda 1 and 2 total only about 1 000 hectares - makes no difference at all. During the two years of the moratorium, the Government hopes to educate people who live in the area and who have never been exposed to logging. This is an outcome of logging an area that is close to quite heavy, semi-urban populations. Some residents have not seen logging in its full context. I noted the concern expressed by some local residents. It is not their fault, and I am not being critical of them, because they cannot be expected to know these things. Some residents referred to the logging as clear-felling. Clear-felling is not and has never been carried out in the jarrah forest. An education campaign must be conducted. The Government might exchange blocks in the long term. We will work through that over the next two years. The primary purpose of the two-year moratorium is to enable the Government to better inform people about what is proposed to occur in those three blocks.
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