Forest Management Fact Sheet

Myth: The NSW Forestry Commission consults appropriate stakeholders on strategic and operational matters.

Fact: Local residents are not consulted about any aspects of forest management, but are expected to cop the negative impacts on down stream forest.

Myth: The NSW Forestry Commission maintains ecological processes associated with soil and water.

Fact: Results of soil assessments undertaken by DIPNR for the NSW Forestry Commission's logging operations always conflict with published laboratory tested data.

Myth: Forest ecosystems are managed over a range of growth stages

Fact: In 1969 the NSW Forestry Commission decided to cut down all commercial public forests in the Eden Region over a forty year period for woodchips.

Myth: Thinning 55 year old "wildfire" regrowth will make them grow to produce sawlogs in 20 years

Fact: For trees to grow at their maximum potential they need to be thinned by the time they are 25 years old.

Myth: Environmental factors are assessed at appropriate levels before logging or burning.

Fact: The NSW Forestry Commission have spent the last decade ignoring the best scientific data on forest ecosystems, while they received public funding to maintain their own opinions.

Myth: Current forest management is sustainable.

Fact: The decline in Koala numbers is a sign that forests are no longer healthy. The massive increase in Bell-miner dieback and the appearance of dry weather dieback demonstrates current forest management is not sustainable