Day 056 - 28 Nov 94 - Page 36


     
     1        the same token you have lots of facts and figures in
     2        Mr. Hopkins' statement.  What I am going to do is I am
     3        going to break off until ten past two.  I invite you to
     4        spend a bit of time considering what I have said, because
     5        once you have isolated what the issue is between you
     6        and McDonald's as to what the areas are, if there is an
     7        issue as to whether the timber which is used for pulp which
     8        is used for McDonald's packaging actually comes from, if
     9        there is an issue about that, and as to how those areas of
    10        forest are managed, if there is an issue about that, will
    11        be focusing in on what is really going to affect my
    12        conclusion at the end of the day.
    13
    14        I cannot write a book on all the interesting environmental
    15        topics which are raised in this case.  I have to focus in
    16        on the leaflet, what the leaflet means, what your
    17        justification of that is in so far as you seek to justify
    18        it at the end of the day.
    19
    20        So, go away and think about it and we will come back at 10
    21        past 2.
    22
    23                        (Luncheon adjournment)
    24                                                       2.10 p.m.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes?
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  Mr. Mallinson, there are two ways, are there, two
    29        main ways of extracting trees from a plantation, thinning
    30        and clear cutting; is that correct?
    31        A.  And then selective cutting in given situations, yes.
    32
    33   Q.   Just take, for example, thinning; when somebody thins a
    34        forest, they take what percentage of the trees each time
    35        they do a thin?  Do they take one tree in 100 or one tree
    36        in 1000 or what?
    37        A.  Generally, thinning in a plantation forest, and that is
    38        one in which there has been definite, regular planting of
    39        seedlings in rows, is done on the basis of taking one row
    40        or two rows, one row in three or two rows in five; in other
    41        words, literally a track through the forest to thin it.
    42        That is the first thinning.  The second thinning, they take
    43        out those which are not good trees.  The programme of
    44        thinning usually will involve about three thinnings in the
    45        process of the maturing of that forest.
    46
    47   Q.   So, say the forest has a lifetime of 100 years?
    48        A.  That is quite a long time -- unusual time.
    49
    50   Q.   Right.  Just to take an example of 100 years, how many 
    51        thinnings would take place in 100 years? 
    52        A.  Usually, one cleaning, which is a separate operation 
    53        done after about five years, and that is just literally
    54        stopping vegetation from, you know, allowing the trees to
    55        grow, and three thinnings.
    56
    57   Q.   Sorry, just to summarise that, the first time it is thinned
    58        it is, say, one in three rows, for example, one in every
    59        three rows, something like that?
    60        A.  It might be.

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