Facts about the timber industrySir,I wish to correct some widely held opinions about the current state of the timber industry in the Manjimup Shire, in the south-west of Western Australia.There seems to be a perception that there is almost no “pristine” or “old growth” forest left.Many years ago, my father, who was born at Bunbury in 1898, told me that there was only a small area of bush near Shannon River that had not been logged in the last 150 years. He had worked in the timber industry for m…
