Resources
Submissions & reports
Following the discussion on ABC local radio, this document provides detail on the apparently lost/suppressed study on 'Land Degradation in the Bega Catchment' undertaken by the then DLWC and now defunct far South Coast Total Catchment Management Committee.(PDF,740kb) Report on Forests NSW's Southern Brown Bandicoot survey methods and results (PDF,830kb) Unpublished submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry about soil, habitat and aspects of the NSW Koala recovery plan yet to be achieved. (PDF,2Mb) Brief document highlighting concerns about logging in Cpt 2069 of Bermagui State Forest. (PDF,930kb) Supplementary complaint sent to the OE&H Forestry compliance unit (27 September 2011) about IFOA and F&NP breaches in Compartment 2002, Bermagui State Forest. (PDF,225kb) Fifth submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry, responding to Forests NSW answers to questions on notice and other NSW government koala information. (PDF,1.1Mb) Fourth submission to the Senate Koala Inquiry, looking at the koala surveys and data from the perspective of the NSW koala recovery plan. (PDF,812kb)
Second submission to the Senate Koala inquiry with some bits omitted/censored. (PDF, 790kb) "The adequacy of soil dispersion testing – a comparison of field test methods." Using soil samples taken from different locations in Compartment 2001. (PDF, 2Mb) Map of Forests NSW fauna transects in Cpt 2001 Bermagui SF derived from eastings and northings in datasheets (JPG, 183kb) South East Forest Rescue report on logging of koala habitat in Bodalla State Forest(PDF,1.8Mb) Koala Extinction - Nullica SF and Curalo Lake catchment - Information requested by Forests NSW - March 2011(PDF, 2.8Mb) Timeline of south coast Aboriginal contact with Europeans pre 1830 til 1997 -Compiled by Andrea Powell as part of a Master of Arts degree (PDF, 87Kb) Submission to the Senate inquiry into koalas. (PDF, 780Kb) Objections to Bega Shire Council's proposed grant and loan to the Bermagui Shotgun Club (PDF, 893Kb) Comments on the NSW Forest Agreements and Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals review (PDF, 256Kb) Comments on the Forest Stewardship Council's sustainable yield criteria 5.6 (PDF, 635Kb) Complaint sent to relevant authorities on 4 August 2010 about past and proposed logging in Murrah and Mumbulla State Forests (PDF, 4.4 MB) Comments on the nomination to list the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) as a threatened or conservation dependent species under the EPBC Act.(PDF, 1 MB) Report on Biamanga Aboriginal Place and its management.(PDF, 0.85 MB) Comments South East Fiber Exports forest furnace proposal, (PDF, 1 MB) Comments on the adequacy of information in the Harvesting Plan for Compartments 2133-35, Mumbulla SF (PDF, 1.8MB) Comments on the progress of the NSW Regional Forest Agreements (PDF, 418KB) Submission to the Royal Commission into the 2009 Victorian Bushfires (PDF, 5.1MB) Comments on the Mimosa Rocks National Park Plan of Management (PDF, 15kb) Examination of the legality of the recent Bermagui State Forest logging activities (842kb) Submission to the Garnaut review on Forestry and land use Comments on the NSW Government on the draft Koala management framework Submission to the Garnaut review on forestry aspects of an Emissions Trading Scheme
Eden Regional Forest Agreement Review - background documents
The effects of deforestation (150 kb)
Ian Little's comments on the NSW Environment Protection Agencies 1996 workshop on soils (34 kb)
Sustainability Day (5 November 2006)
Information sheets
Speech given by Suzanne Foulkes
Management and Research proposals
FOFFs Management and Research Proposals -final draft March 2011 (2.8Mb) .
Towards Adaptive Forest Management - a research paper (200kb).
Fact Sheets
- Koalas
- Five Forest Catchments
- Soils-revised Sep 2010
- Forest Dieback
- Forest Management Claims
- CO2 emissions associated with unsustainable forest management
Downloadable information
- Scanned copy of State Forests Koala Management Plan for the Eden Management Area (1997), produced by Dr J.Shields and still being implemented by the OE&H today.(11.4 Mb)
- Article from the online edition of Qld Country Life raising significant concerns about long-term negative impacts on soils of the commonly used herbicide Glyphosate.(37Kb)
- Transcript from the GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE NO. 5, ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE (Uncorrected proof) Thursday 27 October 2011, includes Minister Parker's gaff and apparently confirming that they have dropped the South Coast Koala Management Framework, to keep a logging crew employed.
- FNSW's third report (power-point presentation)on the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot(1.6Mb)
- FNSW's second report on the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot(350kb)
- FNSW's first report on the endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot(350kb)
- FNSW's Revised logging map for Cpt 2051, with 'koala exclusions' not exactly where the koalas were located(720kb)
- FNSW's Koala transect locations for Cpt 2069 according to co-ordinates in datasheets (225kb)
- FNSW's Koala survey map for Cpt 2069(725kb)
- FNSW's Logging schedule September 2011 (15kb)
- FNSW's ideas about dieback(950kb)
- FNSW's Plan of operations(2010-2011)(25kb)
- Fauna survey data for Compartment 2001 Bermagui State Forest (2011)(1.2Mb)
- Fauna survey map for Compartment 2001 Bermagui State Forest (2011)(1.3Mb)
- Operations map for Compartment 2001 Bermagui State Forest (2009)(730kb)
- Operations map for Compartment 3065 Bodalla State Forest (2001)(372kb)
- Harvesting Plan for Compartment 3065 Bodalla State Forest (2001)(192kb)
- Operations map for Compartment 3066 Bodalla State Forest (2001)(976kb)
- Bureau of Resource Sciences- Compartment 2133, Net Harvest Area showing location of Biamanga Aboriginal Place (279kb)
- Bureau of Resource Sciences- Compartment 2135, Net Harvest Area showing location of Biamanga Aboriginal Place (262kb)
- Harvesting plan map for Cpt 3043 showing area of 'modified harvesting' in rainforest buffer, rainforest and potentially filterstrip (519kb)
- Harvesting plan for Cpt 1326 with names of compilers and cultural heritage section blacked out(348kb)
- Correspondence with Forests NSW attempting to extract information between August and November 2010 (42 kb)
- Logging plan for Compartments 2051 and 2052 in Murrah State Forest (17.5MB)
- Logging plan maps for Compartments 2051 and 2052 in Murrah State Forest (5.1MB)
- Part two of FNSW's Transects in Mumbulla SF Compartement 2133 & 2135 (6.1MB)
- Part one of FNSW's Transects in Mumbulla SF Compartement 2133 & 2135 (6.7MB)
- Harvesting plan - Mumbulla State Forest Cpts 2133 & 2135 (1.4MB)
- Harvesting plan - Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2001 (730kb)
- Harvesting plan 1- Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2002 (350kb)
- Harvesting plan 2- Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2002 (350kb)
- Harvesting plan - Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2004 (157kb)
- Harvesting plan maps - Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2004 (1.3Mb)
- Harvesting plan - Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2005 (163kb)
- Harvesting plan maps - Bermagui State Forest Cpt 2005 (1.3Mb)
- Forestry - economic realities.pdf By Judy clark
- Forests N.S.W. Harvesting Plan - Cpts 2032,2035 Murrah SF
- Adaptive management an Australian Perspective-1999 (240 kb)
- Options Forestry - Acting on Uncertainty (2 Mb)
- The River Restoration Framework - what the NSW Government rejected (590Kb)
Reports produced for or by the NSW Government on koalas
Report produced by Chris Allen on the Numeralla Koalas in 2001 and on the assumption that these koalas were not translocated(130kb).
Copy of a map allegedly showing 'preferred koala habitat' in the Five Forests. Produced by the OEH and printed in the submission to the SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNICATIONS INQUIRY INTO THE STATUS, HEALTH & SUSTAINABILITY OF AUSTRALIA’S KOALA POPULATION from the Conservation Council ACT Region Inc. on behalf of the South East Region Conservation Alliance, 2011(580kb).
A statistical analysis of relationships between Koala occupancy and tree habitat in the Bermagui / Murrah area, NSW. Alan Welsh, Ross Cunningham and Christine Donnelly, ANU
May 2010 (672kb)
DECCW draft report on koala 'populations' in south east NSW prepared for the Threatened Species Scientific Committee- January 2010 (2.5Mb)
Nutritional ecology of the Mumbulla koala- Spatial variation in habitat quality effects fine-scale resource use by a low-density koala population
Honours thesis summary,Eleanor Stalenberg, June 2010(730 Kb)
South Coast Koala Management Framework (1.8Mb)
The utility of regularised grid-based sampling for the purposes of identifying areas being utilized by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in the South-east Forests of NSW – a Pilot Study.(1.3Mb)
Interim DECCW report on Bermagui/Murrah/Mumbulla koala surveys (0.75Mb)
Images, Maps, and Studies
- Link to paper titled "Lines on Maps: Defining Resource Governance Regions from the ‘Bottom-Up’"(Brunkhurst and Reeve,2006) highlighting how current Catchment Management areas are not consistent with social,economic or environmental realities. Hence, in their current form, Catchment Management Authorities are unrepresentative and ineffective. (JPG 370kb)
- Map of 'Net Harvest Area' and distribution of Murrah Soil Landscape in Compartment 2003 in Bermagui State Forest. (JPG 300kb)
- Map showing koala records associated circle with with 2 kilometer radius and Soil Landscapes in Tanja SF(JPG 200kb)
- Location map for 39 Compartments in Bermagui, Murrah, Mumbulla and Tanja SFs on FNSW,s 2010-2011 Plan of Operations SF (JPG 175kb)
- Location map for Compartment 2069 Bermagui SF (JPG 180kb)
- Koala records near Compartments 2432,2434,2435 -Tantawangalo State Forest (JPG - 272KB)
- Compartment 2135 Net Harvest Area and Koala transect survey locations (JPG - 211KB)
- 2010 Logging schedule and burning schedule in Mumbulla State Forest and Biamanga National Park with current and past koala records (JPG - 298KB)
- Logging schedule in Mumbulla State Forest with current and past koala records (JPG - 227KB)
- Additions to the 2010 logging schedule in Murrah and Mumbulla State Forests (JPG - 260KB)
- Mumbulla 2010 logging schedule and known recent koala locations (JPG - 207KB)
- Cuttagee Lake aerial photo (reduced - good for on-line viewing) (JPG - 104KB)
- Cuttagee Lake aerial photo (full size) (JPG - 312KB)
- Cuttagee Lake aerial photo (full size) (PDF - 188KB)
- Murrah State Forest 2005 logging map (JPG - 168KB)
- Adaptive Forest Management Options - Bateman Bioregion map(JPG - 140KB)
Koala Endangered Population Nomination
In 2001 as a result of community research the only documented Koala population on the far south coast were nominated as an Endangered Population, likely to become extinct in nature. Around this time the NSW Forestry Commission released research that found eucalyptus dieback in every catchment in the Five Forests. In 2004 Koalas were again nominated by the Australian Koala Foundation, as Vulnerable across their historic range under the Commonwealth's EPBC Act (1999). In 2007 Forests NSW lied to the Scientific Committee, who were either gullible and or stupid enough to believe their claims that koalas are every where and the nomination was rejected.
Download the full 2001 nomination (46 pages):
- Microsoft Word (.doc) format. (536KB)
- Acrobat Reader 5 format. ( 708KB )
Further information to Scientific Committee-2003 ( 55KB )
Further information to Scientific Committee-2004 ( 18KB )
Most recent information to NSW Scientific Committee on preliminary determination(December 2006)
Scientific Committee- final determination 2007 ( 23KB )
Bell Miner Associated Dieback National Forum
The National Forum was held at Southern Cross University, Lismore Campus Northern NSW from Wednesday 30 March to Friday 1 April 2005. Download the forum brochure (Acrobat 4 format, 314KB) or read a summary of the conference.
Download the full 2001 nomination (46 pages):
- Microsoft Word (.doc) format. (536KB)
- Acrobat Reader 5 format. ( 708KB )