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Sustainable Timber Tasmania, formerly Forestry Tasmania, is a government business enterprise owned by the Government of Tasmania, Australia. It is responsible for the management of public production forest in Tasmania , which is about 800,000 hectares of crown land (public land) that is classified as 'permanent timber production zone'.
While the development of an aerial incendiary machine by the CSIRO was progressing the Forests Commission Victoria was developing a system for use with helicopters. The DIAD (Delayed Action Incendiary Devices) was a large double-ended match with a length of safety fuse between. Forestry Tasmania started using DIADs around the same time. [18]
The 2013 Tasmanian bushfires were a series of bushfires which occurred in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia, between November 2012 and late April 2013. [7] [8] The fires burnt approximately 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of mixed resident land and native forest.
Fire at a Melbourne home for disabled people kills nine men. Coronial inquest in 1997 finds there was no proper fire safety system in place at the time of the fire. Landslide: Gracetown, Western Australia: 9: 1996 Sep 27: 5 adults and 4 children died when a cliff face collapsed at Cowaramup Bay near Gracetown (Margaret River) [248] [249] Bushfire
The 2016 Tasmanian Bushfires were a large series of bushfires in Tasmania which started in January 2016 throughout the state, and continued into February 2016, with considerable damage to fire sensitive areas in the Central Highlands, West Coast and South West regions. By autumn 2016, no bushfires were reported within the state.
Waste Land Act (1863) - made it possible for further licensing for forest activities was possible after Van Diemen's Land become Tasmania in 1856. Waste Lands Act (1881) - provided for land reservation for the preservation of timber. In 1885 the State Forests Act preservation and policing were not well organised and the management of forests ...
Callitris oblonga is low shrubby tree found in Tasmania's dry woodlands. Callitris rhomboidea grows in fire-protected sites on Tasmania and the Furneaux Group, where it can grow up to 30 metres high. [1] Prior to European settlement, Bass Strait islands were mostly covered with dry sclerophyll woodland, wet and dry forests, and heath.
The North Mount Lyell disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell disaster and North Mount Lyell fire) [1] refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania, killing 42 miners. The mine had been taken over from the North Mount Lyell Company in 1903. [2]