Fed: Logging would have lessened fire threat: Abetz

AAP General News (Australia)
12-13-2006
Fed: Logging would have lessened fire threat: Abetz

Forestry Minister ERIC ABETZ says Tasmania's bushfire crisis wouldn't be so severe
.. if the state's forests had been logged .. rather than protected.

Senator ABETZ says the severity of the bushfires .. which have destroyed 14 homes in
Tasmania's east .. calls into question the value of making forests off-limits to logging
and grazing.

He's told ABC radio many people feel cheated .. that they were told forests could be
locked up and kept forever.

AAP RTV dcr/wf

KEYWORD: BUSHFIRES TAS ABETZ (CANBERRA)

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