The 2008 NSW Regional Forest Agreement Review Report records progress against agreed milestones in the first five years of each Agreement. The broad areas being reported on in the progress report are:

• the management of reserves
• protection of threatened species and cultural heritage
• advances in environmental management systems
• auditing and reporting
• measuring of long-term wood supply volumes from production forest.

The report is intended to provide the public with information on the progress of implementing the Agreements, and enable the public to provide comments.

To find out more about the 2008 NSW Regional Forest Agreement Review Report and related information, visit the Forest Agreement review webpages on the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change website (www.environment.gov.au).

Forests NSW documents referred to in the report

• Forests NSW Australian Forest Standard and EMS Manual - Under review  322.7 KB
  Report milestone 26. This manual documents Forests NSW procedures and systems in relation to the nine criteria of the Australian Forestry Standard (AS 4708:2007) and the Environmental Management Standard (ISO 14001:2004). Note that this version of the manual has been edited to remove copyright protected extracts.
• Operational guidelines for Aboriginal cultural heritage management  234.4 KB
  
• Southern Region Pest Management Plan  1.1 MB
  
• Corporate Fuel Management Plan 2008  639.1 KB
  Report milestone 27
• Model Regional Fuel Management Plan  237.1 KB
  Report milestone 27
• Cumberland State Forests hazard reduction burn, 2007
  Report milestone 27
• Pest Animal Management Plan 2006 - Central Region  1.1 MB
  Report milestone 28
• Pest Animal Management Plan 2006 - North East Region  595.8 KB
  Report milestone 28
• Weed Management Plan - North East Region  807.9 KB
  Report milestone 29
• Weed Management Plan - Central Region  753.5 KB
  Report milestone 29
• Weed Management Plan - Southern Region  891.6 KB
  Report milestone 29
• Forest Practices Circular: Monitoring and Audit Manual  180.1 KB
  Report milestones 30, 31
• Managing our forests sustainably: Forest management zoning in NSW state forests  5.7 MB
  Report milestone 37
• Native Forest Silviculture Manual  2.8 MB
  Report milestone 40
• Forest Practices Circular: Implementation of IFOA silviculture in the Southern Forest Agreement Region  20.8 KB
  Report milestone 40
• Forest Practices Circular: Implementing silviculture in Lower North East and Upper North East Regions  16.4 KB
  Report milestone 40
• Forest Practices Circular: Rainforest protocol  32.7 KB
  Report milestone 40
• The Price System  60.8 KB
  Report milestone 43
• Forests NSW: Review of North Coast standing volumes for the 2004 valuation  204.4 KB
  Report milestones 52, 54
• Vanclay Report: 'Review of projected timber yields for the NSW North Coast  1.3 MB
  Report milestone 55
• A Review of Wood Resources on the North Coast of New South Wales  1.2 MB
  Report milestone 55