Accelerated plantings across NSW

Accelerated plantings across NSW

Friday 20 Oct 2023

A ground-breaking replanting program has seen more than 40-million seedlings planted in New South Wales pine forests since the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires. Almost three years on from the state’s bushfire emergency and the recovery effort in Forestry Corporation’s softwood plantations continues.

As New South Wales prepares for another bushfire season, Forestry Corporation has acknowledged the hard work in forest management that has occurred across the state. The accelerated planting programs undertaken over the past three years have seen extensive replantings in state forests near Tumut, Bombala, Bathurst, Walcha and Grafton.

Pine forests in the state’s south were among the hardest hit areas by bushfire, as more than five million hectares of land was burnt across New South Wales. This included 25 per cent of the state-owned pine plantations. In Tumut, more than 24-million pine seedlings have since been replanted in fire-affected pine forests.

“In Tumut three-quarters of the pine forests impacted by the bushfires have now been replanted” Silviculture Manager Roger Davies said. In the state’s north at Grafton more than 4-million pine trees have been replanted across 4,000 hectares of pine forests, impacted by bushfires.

Source & Photo: Forestry Corporation NSW

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