Nearly half the native timber set aside for logging in East Gippsland has been destroyed by Victoria’s bushfires as job losses begin to bite in the industry following the blazes.  Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday that the damage to timber stocks was worse than previously thought as state logging agency VicForests confirmed that about 90 forestry workers had been laid off.  The double blow to the industry, which was facing a shutdown within 10 years, came on the day it launched an advertising blitz highlighting the role timber workers played in the recent bushfires emergency.  But in a rare piece of good news for regional saw mills, they are expected to be able to share in about 15,000 tonnes of timber, much of it suitable for saw logs, from trees felled in the operation to re-open the Princes Highway and other regional roads.