Australia: Bermagui State Forest destruction resumes

Logging operations in the Bermagui State Forest resumed on Monday
after a break over the holiday period. Forests NSW southern regional
manager Ian Barnes said an exclusion area will again be implemented
over the two forest compartments being harvested, mainly for safety
reasons. “The exclusion zone would apply in the harvest area west of
Bermagui township,” he said.

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Harvesting commenced in these areas in October last year and the
operation has already yielded a substantial volume of high quality
sawlogs and other logs to sustain the region’s timber industry.
“Logging is likely to continue for several more weeks, during which
the area being logged will remain closed.” Conservationists meanwhile
had taken opportunity during the break in harvesting to inspect the
logging activity in the Bermagui State Forest.

Representatives from South East Forest Rescue planned to submit a report to the State Department of Environment on the buffer zones between logging and
remnant rainforest areas and whether the buffers were of sufficient
size as prescribed by the logging conditions. Meanwhile, there has
been community concern about the possible logging of water catchment
feeding the Wapengo and Murrah waterways south of Bermagui. Oyster
growers and conservationists voiced their concern to the ABC radio
last month about the potential impact on these estuary systems.

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