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Regional Forest Agreements are bilateral agreements between the Australian Government and four state governments.

The NSW and Australian governments are required to review the RFAs every 5 years to assess progress regarding ecologically sustainable forest management.

The Coastal IFOA includes limits on the harvesting practices used by Forestry Corporation NSW to ensure harvesting operations are distributed across the landscape and over time, to support a mosaic of forest age classes and maintain forest structure in the operational area or local landscape area.

This page explains the measurement of diameter at stump height over bark (DSHOB) as defined in the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA).

The National Park Estate (South-Western Cypress Reservations) Act 2010 established more than 47,000 hectares of parks across western NSW while providing certainty for timber operations and timber-dependent communities. Timber harvesting was able to continue in state forests and western land leases under the South Western Cypress Region Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (SWC IFOA).

The pursuit of sustainable forestry is permitted within allocated areas in Brigalow and Nandewar as one of the multiple uses granted by the Community Conservation Area (CCA) Agreement for the region.

Everything you need to know about historical changes to how native forestry is managed and regulated in NSW. Previous reforms inform our current forestry review processes and identify areas for future reform.

The NSW Government trialled some of the conditions proposed for the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) to assess how effective they were in an actual logging environment and ensure they were clear, efficient and enforceable.

To ensure the remake of the Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) is underpinned by the best available knowledge, the NSW Government convened an expert panel of scientists as part of the process to determine the effectiveness of the multi-scale landscape approach in protecting threatened species and their habitats.