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VicForests [1] was a state-owned business responsible for the sustainable harvesting, regrowth, and commercial sale of timber from Victoria's state forests on behalf of the Government of Victoria. It was created as a state body under Section 14 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1992 [ 2 ] by the Victorian Government, being declared a state ...
At the urging of the Governor of Victoria, Lord Henry Brougham Loch, who had served in Bengal cavalry and maintained an interest in forests, and had seen there the results of forest management under the great European foresters Brandis, Schlich and Ribbentrop, the Government invited Conservator Frederick D'A. Vincent from the Imperial Forest Service in India to visit in 1887 and make ...
This would have the effect of plantation timber being the only timber being sourced from the land area of Victoria from 2030. [7] Both the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and National Party of Australia – Victoria opposed the plan to phase out deforestation of native forests by 2030, claiming the practice is sustainable. [7]
This category is concerned with Forests of Victoria- and anything that might relate to planning, conservation, and utilisation of forests in Victoria - including individual trees or locations occurring in the forests
There are many plant species found in the various rainforests of Victoria, which differentiate it from wet sclerophyll forest. This is a combined list of differential species from the various rainforest areas in Victoria. [3] Nothofagus cunninghamii, Myrtle Beech; Hymenophyllum australe, Austral Filmy-fern; Hymenophyllum flabellatum, Shiny ...
The Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) are 20 year plans for the conservation and sustainable management of Australia's native forests, and are intended to provide certainty to commercial forestry operations while protecting environmental values. [1] The 10 RFA's were progressively signed between 1997 and 2001.
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Conversely, the establishment of a woodchipping industry made it economically feasible to clearfell areas of mixed or substandard forest that could not otherwise have been felled. Clearfelling is a controversial forest practice in Australia, and opponents argue that the woodchipping industry is culpable for its continuation.