…It’s a Sunday in July, just after sunset. We’re sitting in the Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast, waiting for darkness to fall. Six of us, including the independent MP for Mackellar, Sophie Scamps, are huddled, focused on a single tree. …This environmental neighbourhood watch has become routine in the forest of the Bulga plateau. It is how members of the group hope they might save the area from logging by the state-owned NSW Forestry Corporation, which is scheduled to recommence as soon as the first week of August. Citizen scientists have spent many nights over the past year spotlighting in parts of the forest scheduled for logging. They register every greater glider den tree they observe on the state government’s biodiversity database, BioNet. …Unlike Victoria and Western Australia, which have ended native forestry operations, the Minns government has not.