Industry pushes against the grain
Stockpiles of logs at Neerim South lie in wait for the end of VicForests' contractual dispute. Photo: Penny Stephens
Adam Morton and Melissa Fyfe
February 4, 2012
THE logs - thousands of them - are piled neatly in an old sawmill yard at Neerim South, Gippsland. To the casual observer they may look unexceptional. But the truck drivers, paid by the government to cart the felled trees from the state's forests, know better. This place is a dumping ground, albeit temporary. And the wood - representing about 100 hectares of trees - symbolises long-term problems with the management of Victoria's native forests.