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Regional Forest Agreement
Victoria
Victoria has five RFAs, covering more than 13 million hectares of the State.
The Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) reserve system covers about 2.86 million hectares, representing more than half the total public land across the five regions. Overall, the RFAs increased reserves by more than one third.
Victoria's timber industry had already undergone significant restructuring when the RFA process began.
The Commonwealth and Victorian governments provided a package of $42.6 million under the Commonwealth-Victorian Hardwood Timber Industry Development and Restructuring Program (VicFISAP) to help businesses take advantage of RFA certainty and adjust to changes in resource availability.
Central Highlands region
The Commonwealth and Victorian governments signed the Central Highlands RFA on 27 March 1998.
The RFA added 115 000 hectares of public land to reserves — an increase of nearly two thirds. Half the region is in the CAR reserve system, which meets the national agreed criteria for biodiversity and old growth.
Hardwood from the Central Highlands accounts for one third of Victoria's total sawlog production and more than half its total pulp log production. The RFA committed Victoria to at least maintain levels of sawlog supply, subject to reviews of wood availability.
"The Central Highlands Regional Forest Agreement" can be accessed in the following formats:
PDF [216kb]
Word [162kb]
ZIP [49kb]Land Tenure and Zoning Map
