{"id":4610,"date":"2014-08-14T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/otway-logging-plans-worry-furniture-maker\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T02:24:56","slug":"otway-logging-plans-worry-furniture-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/otway-logging-plans-worry-furniture-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Otway logging plans worry furniture maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Map: Lavers Hill 3238<br \/>\nA Lavers Hill furniture maker and tourism representative has questioned plans to phase out logging in the Otway Ranges in southern Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Alistair Watt suggests a balanced economy, that includes timber, tourism and agriculture is needed.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nHe is worried full-time timber jobs will not be replaced by an emerging tourism industry as predicted by the State Government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Watt says it is getting harder for him to find the small quantity of blackwood timber he needs to keep his business going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole effort has been not just stop the logging, it&#8217;s been making everything a national park. National parks mean not only no logging, no firewood, no fence posts, no beekeeping, no horses etc, etc,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: timber, apollo-bay-3233, ballarat-3350, lavers-hill-3238<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map: Lavers Hill 3238 A Lavers Hill furniture maker and tourism representative has questioned plans to phase out logging in the Otway Ranges in southern Victoria. Alistair Watt suggests a balanced economy, that includes timber, tourism and agriculture is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}