政治 · ビクトリア州の森林公約ビクトリア州の製材所は地元産木材を求めている。連立政権の森林公約は、安全に供給できるのか執筆 2026年10月29日 5:57 UTC視聴文字起こし0:07Victoria's coalition wants native forest timber flowing back through local sawmills.0:11Its election pledge ties that supply to bushfire prevention and forest restoration,0:15with regional jobs and wildlife habitat at stake.0:18The program depends on the coalition winning next month's state election.0:21Can the proposed work reduce fire danger, protect wildlife, and sustain local mills?0:25Hayfield's timber industry wants more locally recovered wood.0:28The proposed program would operate across Victoria, where commercial native0:31harvesting in state forests ended in two thousand and twenty-four.0:34Conservation groups fear it would reopen logging through a different route.0:38The coalition promises targeted thinning and fuel reduction on five, zero hectares0:42of degraded public forest each year.0:44Timber recovered during that work would go to Victorian Mills, with revenue0:47reinvested in the state.0:48The proposed timber uses range from saw logs to firewood, biochar, and mulch.0:53Public land spokesperson Melina Bath says firebreak work would produce logs for0:57mills and help firefighters enter forests when wildfires arrive.1:00The coalition also promises to double planned burning.1:03Separately, it wants to work towards treating five percent of treatable public land1:06annually.1:07Invoking the Bushfires Royal Commission, that broader ambition covers a different1:11measure from the annual thinning area.1:13The coalition hasn't given a starting baseline for doubling burns or a year for1:17reaching five percent.1:18Bath says fuel management under labor has fallen below one percent of public land,1:22but that political claim doesn't supply the missing baseline.1:25Bath calls the proposal forest management and argues that closing native timber1:29operations hurt Gippsland and the Northeast.1:31Her package also promises maintained firebreaks, pest and weed control, more1:35rangers, and increased annual reporting on biodiversity and ecological outcomes.1:39Old growth and hollow-bearing trees would be protected under the pledge.1:43Cultural burning would expand in partnership with indigenous Victorians.1:46The practical safeguards, including how protected trees would be identified and how1:50compliance would be enforced, still need detail.1:52Commercial native timber harvesting in state forests ended on January first, two1:56thousand twenty-four.1:57Vic Forest closed that June, transferring its remaining property, rights, and2:01liabilities to the government.2:03The forestry transition program ended in June this year.2:06Victoria still has the country's largest plantation estate, covering three hundred2:10and eighty two six hundred hectares, mainly radiata pine and southern bluegum.2:14Plantation pine supplies construction and pulp and paper manufacturing.2:18The environment department continues to manage state forests for bushfire risk and2:21biodiversity.2:22Australian Sustainable Hardwoods managing director Vince Hurley says his Hayfield2:26business has had to source wood elsewhere.2:28It has bought interstate operations, imported raw materials from the United States2:32for Australian manufacturing, and spent heavily on Capital Works.2:35Hurley expects local wood to support employment and offer consumers a better price.2:39That's his business forecast.2:41He also says Hayfield has been affected by bushfire three times in twenty five2:45years, linking the company's timber concerns with community fire protection.2:49A Jess Wilson led government would attempt the program.2:52Nationals leader Danny O'Brien presents it as support for regional jobs.2:56Victorian Forest Products Association Chief Executive Andrew White backs lower fuel3:00loads, camera investment, and the highest value use of recovered timber.3:03Bath's preliminary estimate puts thinning and salvage at one hundred zero to two3:07hundred.3:07Zero tons of timber annually.3:09She describes that as a raw estimate.3:12Mills would still need a reliable supply that can be processed profitably.3:15The coalition pledges two point five two million Australian dollars over four years3:19for fire detection cameras.3:21Industry Co.3:22investment would bring the project to four point four one million dollars, covering3:25eighteen locations in eastern and western Victoria.3:28The proposed cameras would provide round the clock, three hundred and sixty degree3:33monitoring across more than one point four six million hectares.3:36The coalition says early smoke detection and real time intelligence would help3:39firefighters protect communities, farms, plantations, critical infrastructure, and3:43timber supplies.3:44The existing camera network detected forty-six fires in two thousand twenty-four3:48twenty-five.3:48Labor has also agreed to match industry dollar for dollar toward a reported three3:52point eight million dollar expansion.3:53Detection technology has support on both sides, although the two expansion proposals3:57may cover different work.3:58Victorian Forest Alliance spokesperson Nick Fox warns about greater gliders and4:02powerful owls, which depend on hollows in older trees.4:05National Parks Association campaigner Jordan Crook calls the policy logging wrapped4:09in new branding and warns of ecological water and fire risks.4:13Those groups join Environment Victoria and the Wilderness Society in the Victorians4:17for Nature Alliance.4:18Fox argues that standing forests provide drinking water, erosion control, carbon4:22storage, habitat, and tourism.4:24The coalition's tree, protection promise, would have to preserve structures that4:27take generations to replace.4:29The alliance claims Vic Forests lost one hundred and twenty seven million dollars4:33from two thousand and nineteen to two thousand and twenty-three, received four4:36hundred and sixty-six million in government support from two thousand and nineteen4:39to two thousand twenty-four, and that transition spending reached at least one point4:43five billion.4:44Those figures haven't been reconciled and shouldn't be added together.4:47The alliance argues that reopening native logging would waste the transition4:51investment.4:51It also claims plantations already represented ninety four percent of Victoria's4:55timber industry before closure, approximately nineteen of every twenty trees cut.4:59Its preferred direction is plantation value, adding and farm forestry.5:03The alliance cites research covering forty two zero hectares of previously logged5:08mountain ash forest in the Central Highlands, warning of regeneration failure.5:11Environment Victoria's Chris Schuringa argues that earlier logging and catastrophic5:15bushfires have left too little native hardwood for a revival.5:18The alliance points to the two thousand and nineteen twenty black summer fires as5:21further pressure on habitat and timber supply.5:24It also notes that the Meryvale Paper Mill no longer requires native forest wood.5:28A2025 study found restoration thinning had minor and temporary effects on understory5:32fuels in one regrowth river red gum floodplain forest.5:35The broader evidence for thinning's effectiveness in Australian eucalypt forests is5:39limited and conflicting.5:40A two thousand and twenty six examination describes mechanical thinning as removing5:44some trees with tracked or wheeled machines.5:46It recognizes reduced fire risk under certain conditions in fire, suppressed5:50forests, and possible drought, resilience, and habitat benefits in some settings.5:54Alongside ecological trade offs, forest type treatment and conditions shape the5:59result.6:00Neither study predicts the statewide consequences of the coalition's program.6:03Or provides a count of lives or properties it would save.6:06A parliamentary committee examining the summer fires backed Victoria's risk-based6:10approach and warned that hector targets could encourage quotas over risk reduction.6:14Friends of the Earth Melbourne campaign's coordinator Cam Walker also warns against6:17pressuring land managers to meet area targets.6:19Bath promises to publish fuel, management targets, and delivered work.6:23The practical test would be whether treatments reduce danger where people and6:27ecosystems are most exposed, rather than simply increasing the area treated.6:31National Parks Association Executive Director Matt Ruchel argues that former6:34national environmental law exemptions have gone and much of the state-enabling6:37framework has been removed.6:39The Conservation Alliance says rebuilding a broad-scale logging system could take6:42years.6:43The alliance also points to court cases that restricted or halted logging after6:47environmental law breaches.6:48Any new cutting in timber sales would need lawful authority.6:51The coalition hasn't set out the detailed legal pathway for its proposed restoration6:55work.6:56Victorians vote on November twenty-eight.6:58A coalition victory would create an opportunity to attempt the program.7:02Its fire, safety, and employment promises would still depend on where work happens,7:06what is removed, and how wildlife safeguards operate.7:08The announcement leaves the first treatment areas and delivery timetable unresolved.7:13The coalition also hasn't published a full program budget or a numerical commitment7:16to lasting jobs.記事を読むストーリーの時系列HeyDex
