Ian Sauer is to be commended for pointing out that current native forest logging practices by Sustainable Timbers Tasmania are economically and environmentally unsustainable. Our community can attest to the bulldozing, burning, then seed-bombing of vast areas of catchment and diverse habitat-rich forest ecosystems, sometimes with little taken out in pulp, and very little taken out as timber. It kills vast areas, drives away tourists, pollutes waterways, dries out the land, increases fire risk and produces insane amounts of greenhouse gasses. Take away the taxpayer subsidies and STT would be bankrupt in a week. Local communities want it to stop to keep our catchments clean, our small tourism businesses afloat, and to instead see jobs and growth in better forestry practices (what STT do isn’t even forestry) and the promotion of wet forest growth to protect farms and communities against fire and climate change. Selective forestry is one option, but Sauer needs to check current research on burning - in some places, yes, it’s the right thing, in some places, not so much. Still, either way, STT execs and Liberal-Labor should listen when the CEO of a conservative organisation like TasFarmers calls out native forest logging.