Timbs Track 2007

Timbs Track is about 80km west of Hobart and runs through the Upper Florentine Valley from the Gordon River Road to the Florentine River.

Unfortunately, the Upper Florentine is threatened by logging. The valley as a whole once contained large tracts of the tallest hardwood trees on Earth. The vast majority of these have already been destroyed by logging operations since the early 1950s. Now Forestry Tasmania plans to drive logging roads further south, into the Upper Florentine, so that the tall-eucalypt forests of the valley can be exploited for sawlogs and woodchips. The proposed logging will destroy the World Heritage values of the area.