Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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In 1990, the Forests and Forest Industry Council (FFIC) was formed. The council, which includes representatives of all forestry interests, is a forum in which strategies for sustainable timber and other forest resources can be reviewed.

The Council formulated the Forests and Forest Industry Strategy (FFIS), which commits the parties involved to the following principles:

• setting eucalypt veneer and sawlog harvests from State multiple-use forest at sustainable levels, reviewed every five years;

• setting aside forest land for long-term multiple-use forestry;

• setting aside forest areas on scientific grounds for conservation purposes;

• setting aside ‘deferred forests’ - public land identified as having potentially high conservation and timber values - to be excluded from timber harvesting or reservation, pending further evaluation; and

• implementing an intensive forest management program including thinning native forests, establishing plantations and the more efficient use of forest land and timber resources, including the transition from principally oldgrowth forests to regrowth and plantations resources.