Management of and Planning for the Use of State Forests in Western Australia - The Sustainability of Current Logging Practices

Ecologically Sustainable Development Committee (1997 - 2001)· 16 December 1999general_report

This 1999 WA parliamentary report examines the sustainability of logging practices in state forests. It finds current jarrah sawlog harvesting unsustainable and highlights conflicts of interest within the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM). The report recommends separating CALM's conservation and resource utilization roles.

Impact

Forestry industry, conservation groups, Indigenous Australians, and future generations are affected by unsustainable logging and CALM's conflicting roles.

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