Question regarding the purpose of logging in the Wellington Mills pine forest by the Forest Products Commission (FPC) and plans for replanting. The FPC intends to replant with Pinus radiata, but local government has requested some land for alternative uses.

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Asked
1 April 2004
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Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

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(1) For what purpose does the Forest Products Commission log the State-owned pine forest in Wellington Mills area?
(2) Upon completion of the logging operation, does FPC intend to replant the area to establish another pine plantation?

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Answered
5 May 2004
Responded by
Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Response time
34 days
(2) At the completion of the harvesting operations it is currently planned to replant the area with Pinus radiata in order to sustain the level of available resource for the future supply to local industry. There have been representations from the local Government authority that some of the area be made available for alternative uses.

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