An epic and sometimes violent battle led to the end of native-forest logging in Victoria's Otway Ranges, a victory some say made the region what it is today.
Stretching along Victoria's rugged south-west coastline and into the hinterland behind the famed Great Ocean Road, the Otway Ranges were close to Melbourne and surrounded by other industries such as tourism and agriculture.In East Gippsland, he says, he was attacked at a pub, followed, threatened with guns, had his car sabotaged, and saw other people attacked.
Clear-fell logging involves the removal of almost all trees from an area called a coupe. Once the trees are removed the coupe is often burnt. "The reason why there was such opposition to clear-fell logging was because it was systematically changing some of the last remnant native landscapes in Australia into an industrial kind of crop rotation," Simon says.Dwarfed below mountain ash in an area he once helped log, John Marriner sees the forest which has returned as a lost opportunity.
A long-closed coffee shop on Apollo Bay's main street still bears a handwritten sign saying "Save The Otways".
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