Exclusive: Logging returns to NSW native forests hit by bushfires
Despite this, in a letter to wood supply contract holders – released during budget estimates – the corporation said it remains "optimistic" it can meet its supply entitlements.
In Victoria, that state’s government logging agency, VicForests, has revealed plans to log 3500 hectares of forests burnt during the summer fires in the next few years, saying salvage logging will occur in areas where "most of the standing trees have been killed". Conservationists, including Professor Lindenmayer, say salvage logging has a lasting effect on wildlife. They also say logging forests after bushfires increases future fire"Salvage logging will have devastating consequences for forests and wildlife impacted by the fires," said Chris Schuringa, spokesman for the Goongerah Environment Centre in East Gippsland. Post-fire logging has already begun in a state park north of Dargo, in East Gippsland.
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