The Forestry Corporation of New South Wales has signalled it will resume logging in bushfire-affected forests despite warnings from the state’s environmental regulator.  The independent state MLC, Justin Field, has called the decision “a gross act of bad faith by Forestry Corporation and John Barilaro as forestry minister”.  Both the EPA and Forestry Corporation had been negotiating an updated set of environmental conditions which were meant to manage the long-term risks of logging in fire-affected forests.  But in a statement on Wednesday, the EPA said the forestry agency had walked away from those negotiations as they related to forestry operations on the south coast.  The dispute between the state-owned forestry agency and the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has escalated after the Forestry Corporation indicated it would not operate under rules that were set up to protect forests on the state’s south coast after the 2019-20 summer fires.