2016-06-08
Ms DUNN (Eastern Metropolitan) — My question is for the Minister for Agriculture. When I look at the Forest Explorer maps on the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning's website I am able to overlay the sites that have been logged in the Toolangi, Marysville, Big River and Yarra state forests. It is evident from these maps that since they began to be clear-felled in the 1970s most of the available wood has already been harvested and these forests certainly will not have sufficient resource to cover the 80-year regeneration period required for high-grade sawlog. My question is: is the state-owned logging agency logging these resources at such a rapid rate that it will soon be out of high-grade sawlog?