‘Ridiculous’: Government sits on forestry report as logging resumes

By Peter Hannam
Brisbane Times
August 4, 2021
Category: Forestry
Region: International

The state government is refusing to release a report into how logging operations should change in the wake of the Black Summer bushfires even as felling begins in a sensitive South Coast region hit hard by the blazes.  Planning Minister Rob Stokes asked the Natural Resources Commission to examine forestry operations after the Environment Protection Authority and Forestry Corp, the state-owned logging body, clashed over so-called site specific conditions that limited the amount of native trees that could be felled in state forests.  …Pressure to release the report, though, is likely to mount as logging issues in the south and north heat up.  Harvesting work has begun at Shallow Crossing, not far from the Brooman State Forest where the EPA and Forestry Corp were at loggerheads over timber curbs earlier this year.

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