In total 360,000 m3 of intense forest destruction a year for 20 years. Put another way more than the whole national woodchip export level will be intensively sourced from the one southern region of NSW in the ecologically short period of only 20 years. This brings the public forest released for clearfell logging by this government to about 1 million hectares on public land in NSW in five years. This means market pressure to increase clearfell woodchipping to convert complex forests to monoculture tree farms.
Mechanisation ensures woodchipping increases with less sawlogs.
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