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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'.
Forestry in Tasmania Australia has been conducted since early European settlement. The logging of old growth native forests in the state has been opposed by environmentalists and others via means such as lobbying, legislation and blockades.
Government in Tasmania is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a government minister who is a member of the Parliament of Tasmania, appointed by the Governor as the representative of the Crown. The agencies are principally grouped as eight departments, each led by a secretary or director-general and comprising a number of ...
The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) is the Tasmanian Government agency responsible for fire suppression and control for the state of Tasmania and its surrounding islands. Established on 1 November 1979 as a result of enacting the Fire Service Act 1979, the TFS superseded the State Fire Authority, the Rural Fires Board and 22 urban fire brigades.
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.
Tasmanian oak [1] is a native Australian hardwood produced by any of three trees, Eucalyptus regnans, Eucalyptus obliqua or Eucalyptus delegatensis, when it is sourced from the Australian state of Tasmania. [2] Despite the common name "oak", none of the species are in the genus Quercus or the oak family Fagaceae.
Dr. Annie Harvilicz took in 41 animals at one point as wildfires spread across the Los Angeles area. Since, most have returned home or are being fostered.
Fire shaped the plant communities in eastern Tasmania. For thousands of years, the Aboriginal Tasmanians deliberately set regular fires, which transformed much of the landscape into open savanna and woodland of fire-adapted plants dominated by species of Eucalyptus. Settlers from Europe started arriving in the 18th century, and mostly displaced ...