The state’s review of its native forest logging practices says critical knowledge gaps and faulty tracking of threatened species has made it impossible to complete its task properly. The 10-year forest management plan which began in 2014 is supposed to balance outcomes between conservation and the timber industry. …It found not only had the four relating to biodiversity – threatened fauna, threatened flora, threatened ecological communities and wetlands – not been met, but also that the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions failed to provide the clear targets, standardised methods, and species management priorities that the forest management plan, and the review, had relied on. The Department’s draft regional nature conservation plans were supposed to provide these. …The public has six weeks to have their say on the mid-term review.