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A community open day at Dismal Swamp that will combine two significant events.

DATE: 30/09/2008

The Scody Cup Tour of Tasmania road cycling classic will complete the end of the “Forestry Tasmania Tarkine Dash” leg of the race. 
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Head Coach “Mind-Boggled” by tour's Tarkine dash

DATE: 26/09/2008

Tasmanian Institute of Sport head cycling coach Matthew Gilmore today described the course for the Caterpillar Underground Mining Tour of Tasmania as “mind boggling.”

The Sydney Olympic Games silver medallist said he was particularly intrigued by the Stage 8 116km Stanley to Dismal Swamp Tarkine Dash, to be contested on Thursday, October 2. Continue Reading...

New risk assessment tool to enhance the sustainability of plantation management

DATE: 17/09/2008

Forestry Tasmania today outlined how a new pesticide risk assessment tool will further minimise the environmental impacts of plantation management.
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The Wilderness Society avoids the accountability question

DATE: 11/09/2008

The Wilderness Society’s (TWS) response to Forestry Tasmania’s (FT) call for more accountability in their advertising was predictable according to FT’s Manager of Corporate Relations and Tourism Ken Jeffreys.

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Is the last tree about to be cut down?

DATE: 10/09/2008

Some actually think so! The forestry debate has raged in Tasmania ever since the Wilderness Society found itself at a loose end after the end of the Gordon below Franklin dam campaign 25 years ago.

Given the duration and intensity of the debate, it would be reasonable to assume the community has a handle on the principal facts surrounding the industry. Such an assumption would be a mistake. Continue Reading...