South Australian Forestry Corporation (trading as ForestrySA) is a business enterprise owned by the Government of South Australia which is responsible for management of publicly owned plantation forests in

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

including the commercial production of timber and the management of forests for non-commercial purposes such as community use and as protected areas.

History

The South Australian Forestry Corporation was established on 1 January 2001 under the ''South Australian Forestry Corporation Act 2000'' from the assets remaining from former government entities such as the former Department of Woods and Forests. The corporation operates under the name ''ForestrySA'' which was previously used as the name of a unit within the former South Australian government department, the Department for Administrative and Information Services.

Purpose

Generally

ForestrySA has responsibility for the management of forestry reserves in three parts of South Australia which it describes in its publications as “regions” with the following names - Green Triangle Region, Mount Lofty Ranges Forest Reserves and the Northern Forests Region.ForestrySA, 2015, page 19ForestrySA, 2014a, pages 3 & 4PIRSA, 2015

Commercial operations

As a commercial operator, ForestrySA is responsible for the management of

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

forests in the Green Triangle region for the on behalf of the plantation owner, OneFortyOne Plantations Pty Ltd, and in the Mount Lofty Ranges and Northern Forest regions on behalf of the Government of South Australia. The plantations are reported in 2014 as covering an area greater than and as being planted principally with softwood timber. The focus of the commercial operation is the production of

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and

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, which is used to produce the following products - sawn timber,

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and

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s.ForestrySA, 2014b, page i The Green Triangle region operation will be reduced from 17 October 2017 when responsibility for plantation management is transferred to OneFortyOne Plantations Pty Ltd.

Non-commercial operations

ForestrySA is required by its charter to manage the following non-commercial activities:

* native forest management * Community use of forests *Forestry industry development *Community protection (Including fire) and forest industry support activities *Other activities as directed by the Minister of Forests *Management of the Mid North forests

Forestry assets under management

As of 2014, ForestrySA was responsible for a total of thirteen forests in its three regions.

Green Triangle Region

The Green Triangle Region consists of the following six forests located in the south east of South Australia within the region known as the

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and covering an area from about to about to the south-east of the

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: *Noolook Forest located north-east of

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. *Mount Burr Forest located east of Millicent. *Mount Gambier Forest located south-west of

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. *Penola Forest located south-west of Penola. *Comaum Forest located between Naracoorte in the north and Penola in the south. *Myora Forest located south-east of Mount Gambier.

Mount Lofty Ranges Forest Reserves

The Mount Lofty Ranges Forest Reserves consists of the three following forests located in the

Mount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...

and covering an approximate area of : *

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located near the town of Williamstown in the Adelaide Hills about to the north-east of the Adelaide city centre. *

Kuitpo Forest Kuitpo Forest ( ) is a plantation forest in South Australia located about south-east of the Adelaide city centre. Kuipto, the first of many forest plantations in the Mount Lofty Ranges, was established in 1898 to ensure a sustainable timber ...

located near the town of

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in the Adelaide Hills about to the south-east of the Adelaide city centre. *Second Valley Forest located between the town of Delamere and the city of Victor Harbor on the

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about to the south of the Adelaide city centre.

Northern Forests Region

The Northern Forests Region (also called the Mid North Region) consists of the four following forests: *Bundaleer Forest located in the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges about north of

and about south-west of the town of Jamestown and consists of an area of . *Wirrabara Forest located west of the town of Wirrabara in the Southern Flinders Ranges about north of the Adelaide city centre and consists of an area of . *Yarcowie Forest located south of the town of Whyte Yarcowie and consists of an area of . *Leighton Forest located west of the town of Burra and consists of an area of .

Corporate governance

Forestry SA as the statutory corporation established in 2001 by the ''South Australian Forestry Corporation Act 2000'' operates as “a business enterprise with the principal responsibility of managing plantation forests for the benefit of the people and economy of the State.” The operation is overseen by a board which is responsible to the South Australian Minister of Forests as per the “Act” and to both the minister and to the South Australian

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as per a charter enacted in 2014 following the sale of three crops of timber (known as “three forward rotations”) from plantations in the Green Triangle region to OneFortyOne Plantations Pty Ltd in 2012.

Citations and references

Citations

References

* * * * * *{{cite web, title= Mid North Forests - Locality, url= http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/243628/MidNorth_Locality.pdf , publisher= Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA) , accessdate=6 August 2015, date= 2015

External links

Forestry SA website
F Forestry agencies in Australia Protected area administrators of Australia