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The Styx Valley contains the tallest hardwood trees on Earth.  Many of the trees are taller than a 25-storey building, over 400 years old, and up to five metres wide at the base.  The Styx is only 70 kilometres west of Hobart (about 90 kilometres by road) and is on the edge of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
However, between 300 and 600 hectares of the Styx Valley have been logged each year.

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Small operators such as boutique stores that give Tasmanian tourism its folksy friendliness believe there is no alternative. Increasingly, boutique outfits are being driven to take on logging to protect their turf.

Former Tourism Tasmania board member Andrew Pirie says there is a deep seated view in the state that real jobs come from heavy industry such as forestry.

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The Age believe it should stop as a lot is at stake; loss of some of Australia's, and the world's, oldest hardwood trees for the sake of wood chips.

Comedian and former radio host, Wendy Harmer was shocked by the log trucks when she took her children on a Tasmanian tour. So she stopped and counted the trucks travelling into Launceston. There was one every four minutes. "And this is supposed to be the Holiday Isle?" she asked in a letter to a newspaper. "It was more like driving around a giant industrial estate. It was enough to make you cry."