The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) frequently claims to have the best forest management systems in the world. In reality there are two things they excel at; firstly their ability to turn ancient forests into plantations and secondly their ability at using half truths to deliberately deceive the Australian population. CALM is brilliant at blinding people with facts and figures and showing pictures of their employees releasing native animals back into the bush. They never show pictures like the ones below in any of their propaganda outlets i.e. CALM NEWS, LANDSCOPE, FORESTS TODAY or their website NatureBase. This in itself demonstrates that they are ashamed of what they do, and so they should be. If seeing is believing, then one can only conclude from these photos that CALM's forest management skills could not possibly be worse. Sites like the ones below can be seen throughout our south west forests.

Dombakup State Forest - near Northcliffe. Now replanted as a karri plantation

Alco State Forest - north of Manjimup (Jarrah marri)

South west of Manjimup (Jarrah marri)

Boorara State Forest - near Northcliffe. (Karri, jarrah, marri)

Easter State Forest - south of Nannup. (Jarrah, blackbutt, marri)

Easter State Forest - south of Nannup. (Jarrah, blackbutt, marri)

Easter State Forest - south of Nannup. (Karri, jarrah, blackbutt, marri) Gravel mines like this one are common throughout our forests. The forest is totally destroyed to get gravel to make roads so that trucks can get the logs out.

Yanmah State Forest - between Manjimup and Nannup. Regrowth jarrah, marri on the left. Old growth karri on the right. CALM's new karri plantation in the middle.

Ellis Creek State Forest - west of Balingup. (Jarrah marri) Just one of many clearfelled areas in this forest.

Dombakup State Forest - near Northcliffe.

Boorara State Forest - near Northcliffe. (Karri, jarrah, marri)

Lindsay State Forest. (Jarrah, marri)

Andrew State Forest. (Karri, jarrah, marri)