The NSW Government said on Monday there are no plans to change the status of the Murray Valley National Park, despite Nationals’ member for Murray Austin Evan’s promise to introduce a bill to parliament to reclassify River Red Gum national parks as state forests. Just before the Murray by-election, Mr Evans committed to drafting a Private Members’ Bill that would allow the timber industry to resume logging of river red gums – large, single stemmed eucalypt trees located along the Murray river. …Nationals party leader and deputy premier John Barilaro on Monday threw his support behind Mr Evans going ahead with the bill – highlighting the division within the NSW Government on the Red River Gums issue. “As it currently stands, the Murray Valley National Park is a failure of policy”.