Trees are Cool in Arana Hills, Queensland | Forestry and logging

Trees are Cool

Locality: Arana Hills, Queensland

Phone: +61 419 655 563

Address: PO Box 97 4054 Arana Hills, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.treesarecool.com.au

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25.01.2022 Save more trees

25.01.2022 The ground beneath our feet is more precious than we know. We can’t take it for granted!

25.01.2022 Having a go at making a nest box

23.01.2022 TASMANIA THE BIG TREE STATE. Here is a some clips from the TT038 The Two Towers climb the other day. When you coming for a visit? - We thank our sponsors ... @teufelbergertreecare | @wesspur_tree |@thenorthface_aunz | @bigwallgear | @climbing_anchors | #Arborist #arblife #treecare #tree #arboristsofinstagram #treeclimbing #treeclimber #bigtree #gianttree #treehunter #huonvalley #tasmania #tassie #tassiestyle #tassiepics #tassie #instatassie #hobart #hobartandbeyond #keeptassiewild See more

23.01.2022 The science of how trees communicate, animated

22.01.2022 And it gets worse for bushfire recovery news With no rainforest refuges, massive fire areas & landscape fragmentation many ground dwelling animals look like ...going locally extinct. This is bad news for fungi and ecosystem resilience. Bettongs are some our our awesome mycophagus (fungi eating) animals and help spread fungi, particularly mycorrhiza that are the partners of plants helping with nutrition and drought tolerance. Our bushlands need many species to stay healthy. We love this draft by Richard Morton reminding us of this. https://www.wwf.org.au//post-bushfire-survey-shows-90-redu

20.01.2022 Forests clean our water and filter our air, and they provide food, medicine and fuel for more than a billion people worldwide.

20.01.2022 Obvious Tree Risk Features Guide All of VALID’s publications released under a creative commons license are currently going through an overhaul and I’m sharing t...hem as and when they’re finished. Here’s v3.0 of the Obvious Tree Risk Features Guide. The idea of it is to encourage citizen science tree risk assessment from the people who pass by trees every day part of Passive Assessment in the 'strategy'. You’re welcome to share it with clients and civilians (non-arborists). It can be downloaded from the News page of the website, whilst all the Risk Management downloads are being updated. https://tinyurl.com/y2xxbjeb Apart from some minor design updates, the key changes are including the context of the overall risk from tree failure. This is to anchor the reader and balance any anxiety. There’s also some really simple advice about managing the risk. This ties into the public responsibility part of the policy (released next week), but is a standalone point here.

16.01.2022 We can all help in our own local area to grow more

14.01.2022 Creating habitat trees in the urban environment. After carving out a couple of nest boxes we had David from Sprig Horticulture over to install them. We learnt a lot about improving the process and over the next two days we had a couple of Lorikeet come check them out. It's a great feeling to provide habitat homes to our local fauna.

14.01.2022 I mentioned scientific journals to a friend recently and they asked oh like National Geographic? And I realized lots of people might not be familiar with the ...academic publishing process, or the difference between popular press and scientific literature! Here’s my attempt at a hand drawn comic-style infographic: EDIT: All of these images are freely available for download on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188445124@N06/ A poster version is available for purchase on my etsy page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/dataworthseeing And follow my Data Worth Seeing page for future infographic and data viz projects: https://www.facebook.com/Data-Worth-Seeing-111304250582204 Thank you all so much for sharing and for keeping the comments overwhelmingly positive. Being open and kind is the best way to reach people.

09.01.2022 In the early two-thousands, a new technique emerged that changed the field. It relies on low-cost transducers: equipped with a tiny spring, a transducerwhich ...converts, or transduces, physical motion into an electrical signalcan rest on the bark of a tree, sensing and logging tiny changes in pressure. Instruments that use this approach, known as precision dendrometers, allow scientists to do something entirely new: watch how trees change and respond to their environments on an instantaneous scale. https://www.newyorker.com 2019.08.27 See more

08.01.2022 One of my most memorable recreational tree climbs was in this Eucalyptus species.

07.01.2022 Learn something new everyday

04.01.2022 Did you see this article in the Sydney Morning Herald Yesterday? Considering the vast majority of forestry regrowth is dense Eucalyptus its something everyone n...eeds to consider. ----- The clear and overwhelming evidence is that logging makes forests more flammable. These are the findings of four peer-reviewed, published scientific studies from four institutions in six years, and of multiple scientific reviews. The likely reasons are that after logging, increased sunlight dries out the forest floor, thousands of fast-growing saplings per hectare increases the fuel for a fire to burn, and the wind speed on hot days increases because of the lack of a tree canopy (wind speed is a key factor in creating extreme fire conditions). Most branches that burn in a bushfire are smaller than the diameter of a human thumb. Young trees burn almost completely while big, tall trees often remain alive and standing after fire. Climate change is already resulting in more extreme fire danger days, and the evidence is that native forest logging makes things worse. Dense plants create a "fuel ladder" to the treetops. Dense plant growth occurs in forests growing back from either logging or fire. More severe fires produce denser regrowth. Growing trees in young forests create greater fire hazard for decades. In logged forests, the body of evidence shows increased flammability begins in the first 10 years after logging or fire and continues for about another 30 years, depending on forest type. The evidence is that logging and severe fire both make forests more flammable. Post-fire, the logging industry receives taxpayer-funded grants for additional, increased logging of burned forest, as it did last month. Peer-reviewed studies show post-fire logging also increases forest flammability for decades. After logging, the top of the tree, the bark and the branches are left on the ground. Only the stripped trunk of the log is taken. Even if the area is then burned, excess dead branches remain, and then dense plant regrowth creates much more fire fuel. An examination of Tasmania’s January 2019 fires found forests growing back after industrial logging burned more severely than old-growth forests. Another peer-reviewed paper found Victorian state forests allocated for logging burned more extensively and frequently than national parks over the past 20 years, and 28 per cent of the area VicForests had planned to log up until 2024 was burned last summer. Two other studies found fire is more severe in logging regrowth. Studies from the US and Patagonia had similar outcomes. The catastrophic Kilmore fire in Victoria in 2009 burned slower and with less intensity in tall, wet, old-growth forest on Mt Disappointment. The logging industry funded a contradictory piece on fire behaviour in 2014, using members of a group called the Institute of Foresters of Australia. The paper, led by Peter Attiwill with co-authors employed by the logging industry, was titled Timber harvesting does not increase fire risks and severity in wet forests of southern Australia. Immediately, a peer-reviewed paper called Errors by Attiwill (Bradstock and Price, 2014) responded that Attiwill had erroneously reported our results and pointed out other key flaws. Speaking about mountain ash forests, Attiwill had said: There is no evidence from recent megafires in Victoria that younger regrowth (less than 10 years) burnt with greater severity than older forest (over 70 years), a statement that did not address the key period of flammability found by other studies, between around years 10 and 40. Robust analysis of the same Victorian fires shows a clear relationship between time since logging and fire severity. There is no published scientific work suggesting logging reduces fire risk. Still, VicForests aggressively attacks scientists who publish peer-reviewed science on the subject, including those it has previously employed. Private Forests Tasmania has claimed commercial logging is a preventative fire strategy. This claim is not supported by any peer-reviewed fire behaviour models. Industrial logging continues near country towns including Warburton, Toolangi, Healesville, Noojee, Orbost, Mallacoota and Cann River in Victoria; around Eden and Batemans Bay and along the south and north coasts of NSW, and in areas around Geeveston, Maydena, Derby, Southport and Dover in Tasmania. As scientists, our purpose is to inform the public and decision-makers about the peer-reviewed scientific evidence. The evidence is that logging makes forest more flammable. Jamie Kirkpatrick is distinguished professor in geography and spatial sciences at the University of Tasmania. This article is co-authored by Dr Jennifer Sanger, Dr Chris Taylor, Dr Robert Kooyman, Dr Phil Zylstra and Professor James Watson.

01.01.2022 Go dig your hands in the dirt/soil