Pressure to maintain wood supply contracts set before bushfires swept through the state’s forests is behind new tensions between the state-owned logger and the environmental watchdog, internal documents suggest. On Wednesday the Environment Protection Authority revealed Forestry Corp had notified that it intended to resume logging in the South Coast forests under the same rules that existed before the fires, breaking an agreement between the two agencies to abide by new conditions after the fires. The EPA responded that it intended to increase its surveillance of Forestry Corp logging operations, and it is understood to have also taken outside legal advice. Letters between the agencies and EPA emails and briefing notes drafted since the fire suggest tensions have been increasing for months.