Timber industry advocates have used freedom of information requests to access emails between prominent Australian National University scientist ecologist David Lindenmayer and environment journalists.  In a freedom of information request, a timber industry advocate applied to access any emails between Professor Lindenmayer and The Age’s environment reporter Miki Perkins. The same person also requested emails between Professor Lindenmayer and Michael Foley, the climate and energy correspondent.  ...Professor Lindenmayer is one of the world’s most cited scientists, and has previously clashed with the Australian forestry industry over his call to immediately end native forest logging. He says his research shows logging makes native forests more prone to fire . These findings have been challenged by some other scientists.