Six Key Reforms

Renew Federal, State & Regional Native Forest Agreements on a rolling, 20-year basis, enabling the NSW timber industry to enter into long-term Wood Supply Agreements with confidence.
The NSW Department of Industry – Lands, to approve the types of Wood Supply Agreements that Forestry Corporation may use and how it may use them, based on principles of equity and fairness, not Forestry Corporation of NSW.
Appoint an independent third party to adjudicate the five-yearly review of the hardwood log pricing system.

Promote and support native forestry on private land to increase the productive forest estate. Incentivise and support plantation investment and development.
Re-establish a PNF unit within Local Land Services to provide enduring extension services.
Integrate PNF Codes of Practice with other agricultural code-based activities within the new Local Land Services Amendment Act.
Implement NSW Forestry Industries Taskforce Plantation Strategy to stimulate investment in new plantations.
Officially recognise the carbon sequestration benefits of plantation forests.
Lobby the Commonwealth to finalise its Plantation Forestry methodology for carbon trading without any special approval conditions that will restrict uptake.
Formally recognise and support the development of existing plantation forest hubs.

Develop and implement new timber resource metrics and a cross-tenure forest monitoring system as a necessary precursor to renewal of NSW Forest Agreements and long term forest planning and management.
Appoint NSW Department of Industry – Lands, as land manager, not Forestry Corporation of NSW, to:
- Increase accuracy of timber inventory and calculate sustainable timber yields at a wood supply catchment scale level
- Develop and implement a cross-tenure forest monitoring system.

Put in place holistic, cross-tenure approaches to managing common threats such as pests, weeds and fire.
Implement Natural Resources Commission ‘active and adaptive’ forest management principles across NSW, commencing in the Western region.
Expand the budget for management of fire pests and weeds on State forest and Crown Lands to be consistent with National Parks.

Regulate and uphold the protection of key socio-economic performance indicators in public native forests in a similar way to the regulated protection of environmental values.
Conduct independent review of non-compliance with regional Ecological Sustainable Forest Management socio-economic indicators.
Appoint NSW Department of Industry – Lands, not Forestry Corporation of NSW, as land manager for key functions.

Regulate public, private and plantation forestry as a primary industry, the productivity of which is essential to supplying affordable housing in NSW.
NSW Natural Resources Commission to be principal forestry policy body, not NSW EPA.
The NSW Department of Industry – Lands to undertake strategic resource planning for both public and private native forestry.
Restrict role of NSW EPA to environmental oversight of forestry operations.