Valley of the Giants Tasmania (book)

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News about the Styx forest in Tasmania

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Senator Bob Brown has written a book about the Styx forest (Valley of the

Giants)

in Tasmania. Parts of this forest are threatened by logging and the Styx

forest

is one of the natural wonders of the world

 

http://www.wilderness.org.au/help/valgiant.html

 

This book was written by Bob Brown after Forestry Tasmania effectively

banned the Wilderness Society's self drive brochure on the Styx as a

condition for the renewal of the Society's 2001 tourism licence. The Valley

of the Giants covers a number of aspects of the old growth forests of the

Styx valley: birds and animals, botany, the history of the area including

the fact that the last 6

(Tasmanian) tigers were trapped in the Florentine valley near the Styx;

tourism and jobs; sections on the world's tallest trees, as well as those in

Australia. He also includes 'Slaying of the Giants' by Bob Ellis.

 

The book touches on such fascinating and poignant facts as the steel pole

that commemorates the tallest tree in the Gippsland forests, now isolated in

a cleared paddock. This is the fate of too many old growth forests. It also

includes a range of colour photographs of the Styx forest itself and of

Forestry Tasmania's activities there.

 

As a guide book for the traveller to the Styx forest, a map and odometer

tour guide enables people to visit features of the forest even if marking

tapes have been removed. Grid references to Tasmap 1/25000 maps also

pinpoint the locations referred to in the text. This book is an invaluable

resource for anyone planning to visit the Styx area and anyone who is

interested in the fate of Tasmania's old growth forests, the struggle to

save what remains of them and the activities of Forestry Tasmania.

 

The Valley of the Giants retails for $12.95 inc. GST, with 10% discount for

Wilderness Society members. Postage and handling is $2.00, inc. GST.

Available only within Australia.

 

For details on how to purchase this book online, or by phone, fax or mail,

 

 

(I also found this news release on another website)

Bob Brown - Valley of the Giants guide book.

On Friday May 25th Bob Ellis will launch a new book by Greens Senator Bob

Brown, " The Valley of the Giants: A Guide to Tasmania's Styx River Forests "

 

The book is part of Bob Brown's contribution to the campaign to save the

Southern Hemisphere's tallest forest from the chainsaws unleashed by Prime

Minister Howard's and Km Beazley's forest policies.

 

Bob Brown and Bob Ellis will both be giving a short talk. Drinks shall be

provided.

 

 

Time: 6pm for 6:30pm

Friday 25 May

Location: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd,

Glebe, NSW