Presented By: Lee Nicholson, Todd Scott, John Minchew
Today humans need many natural resources to survive in today's world. One of the main natural resources being used is wood. Where does this wood come from and what are the uses for it some people ask? Well wood is taken from the natural forest that have been on earth since the dinosaurs. The wood is used in everything from power that goes to your house to the timber used to construct the average suburbian house.
What are the complications with logging of natural forest?
The complications with logging are that animals that live in the wild make these forest their habitats where breeding and feeding are a daily part of a animals life. Tree's are being cut down so fast that many wild animals that occupy these habitats are being pushed out and forced into suburb area's or either they are going extinct.
How does CSC propose to log in a area that has a rare type of parrot living in it's tree's with out wiping out a whole species of bird? First look at dimensions of the forest. The logging area going to be used in 30,000 hecta and the birds need at least 12,000 hecta. The saw mill needs at least 120,000 cubic meters per year to supply the saw mill. A conversion of hecta to cubic meters is required next and the conversion factor is 10,000 cubic meters = 1 hecta. This means the birds need 60,000,000 cubic meters and the saw mill requires 300,000,000 cubic meters.
Here a picture of a forest that would make a good site for a saw mill as well as a habitat for birds and other animals that may inhibit the forest.
The next step in conserving forest is to have an area of land that is used for the conservation of parrots and a divided piece that is used for the sawmill. So the saw mill has to rotate the land they use so the saw mill can run for many years in a cyclic pattern so as to not destroy or hurt the parrot population. In order to do this the sawmill has chosen to use a type of tree called eucalypts to replant after the logging of one particular section. The eucalypts tree grows on a twenty-five year cycle so if the sawmill was to log on 30 year cycle, and by the time the cycle restarted the eucalypts would have had enough time to grow for another logging cycle. The blocks that would be made would be 70 hecta or 700,000 cubic meters which would the allow the saw mill more than enough forest to never have to worry about running out of timber. This would also allow for the birds to have their amount of land needed with being disturbed ever.
This is a picture of a eucalypts tree that may be found in a section that is replanted after the original section of forest is logged.
Here is a picture of what the lay out would look like when logging begins. The green is the preserve that would be for the parrots and the blue and orange are the sections that would be logged over a 30 year cycle. The yellow is a buffer that is put completely around the preserve and the entire logging area to ensure that natural forest fires and other disasters do not destroy the conservation. The yellow is of great importance the company for both economical reasons and for the conservation. The parrot is a intricate part of the environment, but with all of the people and equipment and natural disasters that could start a fire a totally cleared buffer is put up to stop any fire from entering the logging and conservation area (see handout).
The next idea that could be used is to use the same theory as was used with the eucalypts. Mahogany sections would be blocked off in 100 blocks. A one hundred year rotation is not the preffered of the two theories, but could be implemented if needed. This would greatly reduce the size of the blocks and the amount of wood able to harvest from each block, but the mahogany would still fit the requirements. If done on a one hundred year cycle the mahogany would yield 240,000 cubic meters. The plan is still the same as the picture of eucalypts on the handout, but with 100 hundred blocks instead of 30.
This a picture of a mahogany tree that might would be planted in place of the eucalypts.
Forestry information-here is some information on forestry for all those people who don't know a whole lot about the industry. The forestry industry is billion dollar a year industry and employes thousands of people around the world.
Here a picture of the animal that is possible in danger careful plans to conserve it's habitat were no thought out and carried out. These animals are beautiful and need to be preserved so that they can spread and reproduce so all measures will be taken to ensure the parrot has a adequate food and resources to reproduce in the wild. The land will have biologist looking over it that specilize in conservation and parrots so that the parrots future is secured.
Here now is one of our environmental biologist Steve Irwin who has done several documentaries and has great knowledge about all biotic organisms. Here in this picture he is previewing his new documentary on crocodiles. Steve is just one of our great biologist that we have hired to look over both the logging area and the conservation plot to ensure that biodiversity and structural integrity of environment are maintained. Below Mr. Irwin is Mr. Corwin who will be aiding Mr. Irwin in their efforts to conserve the wildlife especially the parrots while the sawmill and logging is being done.
This concludes the presentation of the Conservation Sawmill Corporation (CSC) and we thank you for listening to our presentation.