Australia's State of the Forest Report - Foreword Australia's State of the Forest Report 1998 Foreword Forest issues remain high on the public agenda.
Concerns range across economic, social, cultural, and conservation matters.
Sound decisions as well as soundly based opinions depend upon access to factual information. Australia's first national State of the Forests Report aims to provide factual information at the State, Territory and national levels for a wide range of forest values. It is to be a report to the public, published every 5 years. The present report was compiled by the Management Team of the National Forest Inventory, which is based in the Bureau of Rural Sciences. The National Forest Inventory represents the forestry and conservation agencies of the Commonwealth Government as well as all the States and Territories.