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We have developed guidelines and videos to provide further information to operators and landholders conducting native forestry operations and to support compliance with the PNF Code of Practice.

The video playlist below provides an overview of the legal framework underpinning PNF in NSW, introducing the PNF Code of Practice which sets environmental and operational standards for timber harvesting on private land.

Native forestry on public land is mostly in state forests, and includes timber harvesting and thinning, constructing access roads, burning, grazing, and other activities. The Forestry Corporation of NSW manages these operations, and we regulate them.

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.

As part of the NSW Government’s commitment to regulatory modernisation, the Forestry Legislation Amendment Act 2018 repealed provisions in the Forestry Act 2012 that made NSW Forest Agreements prerequisites for Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals (IFOAs).

Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals (IFOAs) set environmental rules for how forestry operations can be carried out in State Forests and Crown Timber Lands in NSW. We inspect these operations to make sure they are following the rules, and can take action if they are not.

The Coastal Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals (IFOA) is required to deliver ecologically sustainable forest management in NSW forests, securing a long-term forestry industry, and establishing credible, effective and enforceable environmental regulations for forestry operations.

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).