‘The Newsprint‘ – A Social and Forestry History of Maydena. An Experimental Logging Town in the Tyenna Valley, Tasmania. 1920 – 2020
by Peter H MacFie
Maydena Table of Contents
Preamble
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Surveyors and Settlers
Chapter 2: Bush Communities
Chapter 3: Top of the Valley
Chapter 4: Valley on Fire
Chapter 5: Derwent Valley Paper and Pulp Company
Chapter 6: A World War and a Paper Mill
Chapter 7: Trains, Camps and Cats
Chapter 8: The Styx Valley Operation 1941-1947
Chapter 9: Establishing a Sustainable Industry
Chapter 10: End of an Era
Chapter 11: Into the Florentine
Chapter 12: Building a Company Town
Chapter 13: New Australians in the Bush
Chapter 14: The ‘Sassy Kings’
Chapter 15: Log Trucks in the Florentine Valley
Chapter 16: A Town Comes Alive
Chapter 17: Bushmen, Fallers and Log Scalers
Chapter 18: The ‘Best Place in Tasmania’
Chapter 19: Derricks in the Forest
Chapter 20: Understanding the Forests
Chapter 21: The Mechanised Forest
Chapter 22: ‘They are the Glue’
Chapter 23: A New Generation
Chapter 24: Fire and Seeds
Chapter 25: Machines and Men
Chapter 26: A Town Changes
Chapter 27: ‘It’s an Industry You Can Get Hurt In’
Chapter 28: Controversial Forests
Chapter 29: ‘Their Point Of View and Our Point Of View’
Chapter 30: Changing Direction
Chapter 31: New International Owners
Chapter 32: It Was Just Like All The World
Chapter 33: A Future For a Valley
Epilogue
Appendix 1: People Interviewed for Project
Appendix 2: Species of the Florentine Valley Wet Forests
Appendix 3: Illustrations of Tasmanian Rigging Systems
Appendix 4: Traditional Words of the Logging Industry
Appendix 5: Abbreviations
Appendix 6: Local Names List
Appendix 7: ANM Managers and Senior Staff
Appendix 8: Another View
Maps
Bibliography
Index