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.
environmentresourcespublic_sectorindigenouslogging practicessustainable yieldforest managementCALMjarrahRFAecologically sustainable developmentenvironmental impactforest policycommunity consultation
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