The Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.) (CSNF) was the name of a grassroots organisation which grew from a campaign started in
Perth
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, Western Australia, in 1975, as a response to the development of a
woodchipping industry in the south-west
jarrah
''Eucalyptus marginata'', commonly known as jarrah, djarraly in Noongar language and historically as Swan River mahogany, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with roug ...
and
karri
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forests of
Western Australia
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. The
Manjimup woodchip project aroused significant levels of protest in Perth and the
South West
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region out of public concern that inadequate measures had been made for conservation alongside exploitation of the south west hardwood forests.
The public figures and faces of the CSNF at the time—Beth Schulz, Basil Schur, and Neil Bartholomaeus—each gained extensive coverage on the local media during public rallies at
Wagerup and elsewhere.
At the times that the CSNF tried to cope with the issues of governmental and forestry business pressures to develop woodchipping, and mining in the jarrah forest, another group started as well—the
South West Forests Defence Foundation
South West Forests Defence Foundation (SFDF) is a group that has been involved in the conservation of the jarrah and karri forests of the South West region of Western Australia for more than four decades.
It was formed at approximately the same ti ...
. There was co-operation between the groups on some issues as well as joint publications.
The CSNF subsequently campaigned in response to mining by
Alcoa
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in the jarrah forest on the
Darling Scarp
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, conducting rallies and protests outside the
alumina refinery construction site at Wagerup in February, May, and August 1979. It was involved in submissions to Australian federal and Western Australian state inquiries on forestry through the late 1980s.
Many members of CSNF went on to become involved in other groups and associations, such as
West Australian Forest Alliance,
Great Walk Networking, and other groups usually associated with the
Conservation Council of Western Australia
The Conservation Council of Western Australia is the umbrella body for conservation groups and organisations in Western Australia. It has been the co-ordinator, publisher and guiding body for issues of woodchipping in the South West of Western Aus ...
. Many of these groups did not gain the extensive national attention and subsequent political ramifications that, for example, the
Tasmanian Wilderness Society
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did with its early 1980s ''No Dams'' campaign for the
Franklin River
The Franklin River is a major perennial river located in the Central Highlands and western regions of Tasmania, Australia. The river is located in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park at the mid northern area of the Tasmanian Wilderne ...
, which influenced Tasmanian domestic politics for a decade. However, they did have coverage in local media for their particular issues, and despite the lack of national attention they had marked impact on the ways that all levels of government proceeded with environmentally problematic issues.
Journal
'' C.S.N.F. news.'' Perth
.A.: Campaign to Save Native Forests. July 1978-April 1991
Publications (chronologically)
:(Excludes posters)
* Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.) (1975) ''The threat to the forests : a submission to the Australian Senate Standing Committee on the (sic) Social Environment concerning the impending Manjimup wood-chip project.''
* Tingay, Susan and Alan Tingay (1976) ''Eucalypts of the Perth area'' Perth : Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.)
* Robert Powell & Jane Emberson (1978) ''An old look at trees : vegetation of south-western Australia in old photographs'' Perth, W.A.: Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.).
* Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.)
ubmission (1978) : ''Commenting on ERMP-draft environmental impact statement of ALCOA of Australia, regarding the proposed bauxite alumina project at Wagerup, W.A''.
* Conservation Council of WA et al. (1982) '' Karri at the crossroads : a proposal for the adequate conservation of the remaining karri forest in Western Australia and the creation of the Shannon Karri National Park'' Nedlands, W.A. , also with
:'' Redirection of the karri forest economy'' prepared by Conservation Council of W.A. (Inc.), South-West Forests Defence Foundation, Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.)
* Capill, L. G. (1984) ''Wandoo woodland conservation : a proposal for a system of ecological reserves in the woodlands of southwestern Australia '' Perth, W.A.] : Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.)
* Meney, Kathy and Brown, P. (1985) ''Forests on foot : 40 walks in the forests of the south west of Western Australia'' South Perth, W.A.: Campaign to Save Native Forests.
* Paterson, Suzanne.(1985) ''Forests of Western Australia : ecology and conservation'' / prepared by Suzanne Paterson for Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.). Perth : Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.).
* Schur, Basil. (1985) Jarrah forest or bauxite dollars? : a critique of bauxite mine rehabilitation in the jarrah forests of southwestern Australia Perth
.A.: Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.).
* Campaign to Save Native Forests, (1987) ''Time for change : proposals for conservation and improved management in the forests of south-western Australia'' Campaign to Save Native Forests ...
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(1987) ''A question of balance : a submission on the draft regional management plans and the draft timber strategy of the Department of Conservation and Land Management'' Perth
.A.: Campaign to Save Native Forests..
* Campaign to Save Native Forests
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(1988) ''The Land is our future : rehabilitation of the Denmark River Catchment'' Denmark, W.A : Denmark Environment Centre.
Archive
* Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.) Files, 1975-1992
anuscript Battye Library
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MN 1432, Records of the Campaign to Save Native Forests, ACC 4543A. The Campaign to Save Native Forests (WA) was launched in February 1975, initially to fight the impending destruction of the karri forest by the Manjimup Woodchip Project and its associated clear-felling programme. From involvement with this problem there quickly emerged an awareness of the great complexity and seriousness of the conservation needs of WA's native forests. Includes files on organisation, campaigning, conservation philosophy, trees, forests, logging, timber, woodchipping native forests, burning, forest disease, remnant vegetation, land clearing, salinity, jarrah class action, heritage, reserves and parks, Shannon campaign, jarrah forests, wandoo, pines, specific threatened forest areas (including rainforests), miscellaneous files.
References
* Brian J. O'Brien (1976) ''Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on the impact on the Australian environment of the current Woodchip Industry Programme'' Perth : Dept. of Conservation and Development, ISBN
0724462767 - Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment on the Woodchips (Manjimup) Project.
* Conacher, A. J. (1975) ''Environment-industry conflict : the Manjimup woodchip industry proposal, southwestern Australia'' Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia, Dept. of Geography, Geowest ; no. 4
* Hunte, H.E. (chair) (1978) ''Report by the Steering Committee on Research into the Effects of Bauxite Mining on the Water Resources of the Darling Range, September 1978''.
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*Earth, planet
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: Dept. of Industrial Development, Western Australia, 1978.
* Lines, William J. (2006) ''Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage'' St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006.
* Working Groups of Technical Review Committee to Hunt Steering Committee and Kelsal Steering Committee. (1976) ''Research into the effects of bauxite mining in the Darling Range. Research into the effects of woodchipping in the Manjimup area'' reports of Working Groups of Technical Review Committee to Hunt Steering Committee and Kelsall Steering Committee.
erth, W.A.: Dept. of Conservation & Environment.
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