Resources
Biodiversity
Movements and habitat use of the endangered giant barred river frog (Mixophes iterates) and the importance for its conservation in the timber production forests (Lemckert, F. & Brassil, T. 2000)
Ecosystems and Threatened Species, North East Region, New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage by Mick Andren.
Water Security
Water Quality Monitoring of the Bellinger and Kalang Rivers – Technical Report 2015-2016 (Bellingen Shire Council)
Bellingen Shire Council (BSC) resolved to conduct water quality monitoring to inform the Council, community and various government and non-government agencies of the current water quality of Bellingen Shire’s rivers and estuaries.
Logging the Kalang Headwaters
Call for Forestry Excesses of the past to end! Call for action for Oakes SF (KRFA 2021)
This is a call to action to join the effort to protect these steep, upriver public native forests, that stabilise the land, provide clean water, a refuge for threatened species such as the koala and mitigate against climate change.
Compliance of Forestry Operations in North East NSW with Commonwealth requirements for Threatened Species and Ecosystems
This report reviews the protection applied both in theory and practice to nationally threatened species and ecological communities in forestry operations in the North East NSW Regional Forest Agreement (NE RFA) area.
Economics of logging native forests
Economic Impact Analysis and Environmental Benefit Assessment – Final Report for the Great Koala National Park – (University of Newcastle, Feb 2021)
The 2020 NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala populations and habitat in New South Wales found that koalas will become extinct in NSW before 2050 without urgent government intervention. Critically, this assessment was based on evidence presented to the Inquiry, before the bushfires in the summer of 2019/2020.
Soil Assessments
Review of soil assessments of state forests in the Kalang Catchment, Northeast Region, NSW
This report has been requested by Mr Ashley Love (Bellingen Environment Centre), who represents residents concerned about proposed logging activities on steep land by the Forestry Corporation (Forestry Corporation of NSW, 2017) in the Oakes, Roses Creek and Scotchman State Forests in the headwaters of the Kalang River catchment on the NSW mid north coast.
Land and Soil Hazards on the Nambucca Beds, Northeast NSW
This report was commissioned by Mr Ashley Love of the Bellingen Environment Centre, on behalf of the North Coast Environment Council (NCEC), due to concerns about proposed logging activities on steep land by the NSW Forestry Corporation in river catchments on the Nambucca Beds on the NSW mid north coast.