Logs are being transported more than 900 kilometres by rail from northern New South Wales to prop up supply to sawmills on the south-west slopes as part of bushfire recovery. Nearly half the pine plantations supplying timber to mills in Tumut and Tumbarumba were burnt in the 2020 bushfires. Over the next three years, about 270,000 tonnes of logs from government-owned plantations at Walcha on the northern tablelands will be diverted from the export market to supply the mills. Forestry Corporation NSW Snowy region manager Dean Anderson said it was the first time in decades that logs had been transported by train in the state. …Forestry Corporation NSW said transporting the logs by rail instead of road would save up to three million litres of diesel.