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Environmentalists are hoping that Australia's largest temperate rain forest, the Tarkine, does not one day follow the fate of the aboriginal tribe after which it's named. The indigenous people who inhabited this northwestern swath of Tasmania for some 10,000 years were wiped out by conflict and disease in the wake of 19th century colonial settlement. Today, their former home?rich in ancient groves and pristine water courses?may be under threat from the island's logging industry, which intends to process the trees into wood chips and pulp. Granted, the Tarkine, spanning 450,000 hectares...
...vanguard is Tiger Trails, tel: (61?3) 6234 3931, a tour company that offers guided walks through the Tarkine's interior. "Nature-based tourism is part of a new generation of thinking, offering another option for these forests where industry and conservation can work together," says Mike Thomas, a member of Tasmania's Doctors for Forests lobby group and designer of a spectacular Tiger Trails walk that takes trekkers though a Tarkine river gorge that is home to the forest's threatened myrtle trees...
...students spent their 10 days before the start of fall classes camping out in the forest, but only “if by camping out, you mean living in a mansion and eating delicious food,” said Anne E. Austin...
...time spent in the Forest also fashioned a distinctive class dynamic...
Surprisingly, Thompson was not the original actor cast as Fat Albert, nor was it thought that the project would ever be completed after Cosby and original director Forest Whitaker fell apart over creative differences...