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Forest publications

National publications

Recent reports and papers

  • Forest inventory for private native forestry, farm forestry and Indigenous forestry: Farm forestry sector report
  • The Forest Resource Use Model (FoRUM): A spatial-temporal model of Australia’s forest industry
  • Australian plantation statistics 2022 update – annual tabular update
  • Status of Australia’s Forest Genetic Resources 2021
  • Proposed approach for Australia’s State of the Forests Report – 2023 and beyond
  • Australia's forests and forestry glossary
  • Regional forest agreements: compilation of reservation and resource availability outcomes
  • Australia's Indigenous land and forest estate: separate reporting of Indigenous ownership, management and other special rights
  • A framework for developing medium term projections of traded wood products
  • Productivity and efficiency of the Australian sawmilling industry
  • Effects of bushfires and COVID-19 on the forestry and wood processing sectors
  • Fire in Australia's forests, 2011 to 2016
  • Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018
  • Australia's forests at a glance 2019
  • Australian forest profiles 2019
  • Development of a national tenure dataset for reporting the tenure of Australia's forests
  • National 'state of the forests' reporting in Australia – editorial, Australian Forestry, 82:2
  • Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics
  • ABARES national wood processing survey: 2016-17
  • Australian plantation statistics​​​​ 2016 – five-yearly comprehensive spatial report
  • Australia's plantation log supply​ 2015-2059​​
  • Economic potential for new plantation establishment in Australia
  • Upscaling the Australian softwood sawmill industry
  • Compendium of five ABARES briefing notes relevant to Leadbeater’s possum[2.1MB]
  • Reporting Australia’s forest biodiversity I: forest-dwelling and forest-dependent native species – Australian Forestry, 81:3
  • Reporting Australia’s forest biodiversity II: threatened forest-dwelling and forest-dependent species – Australian Forestry, 81:4
  • Regional forest agreements: origins, development and contributions – Australian Forestry, 81:2

Current datasets

  • Forests of Australia (2018)
  • Tenure of Australia's forests (2018)
  • Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2020)
  • Fires in Australia's forests 2011–16 (2018)​
  • Australia's plantations 2016​
  • Tables and figures from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018
  • Forest species and ecological communities reported in Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018

Older reports and publications

  • Australia's State of the Forests Report 2013
  • Australia's State of the Forests Reports – for older reports (1998, 2003, 2008)
  • Australia's forests at a glance 2017[1.9 MB]
  • Australia's forestry industry 2017 map​ 
  • Climatic suitability of Australia's production forests for myrtle rust​​[5.0 MB]
  • Improving Australia's forest area estimate using a Multiple Lines of Evidence approach[2.9 MB]
  • Development of the Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) dataset​​[2.3 MB]
  • Future opportunities for using forest and sawmill residues in Australia
  • Responsiveness of demand for structural pine to changes in timber and steel prices
  • Short-term forecasts of selected wood product sales volume: Method and assumptions​ 
  • Outlook sce​narios for Australia's forestry sector: key drivers and opportunities​​[5.4 MB]
  • Social indicators for Australia's forest and ​​wood products industries: Discussion paper [2.7 MB]
  • Diversity in Australia's forestry industry workforce​[0.7 MB]
  • Sustainable forest management: the Australian context[1.5 MB]
  • Australian native forest commerciality[3.4 MB]
  • ABARES National Wood Processing Survey: 2012-13[56 MB]
  • Preliminary long-term forecasts of wood product demand in Australia[2.2 MB] 
  • Status of Australia's Forest Genetic Resources[5.2 MB]
  • Regional socio-economic profiling of the forestry industry: Recommendations report[1.4 MB]​
  • Illegal logging regulation: analysis of regulated importers by business size​[2.2 MB]​
  • Illegal logging regulation: the affected community[7.8 MB]​
  • Illegal logging regulations: Analysis of Australia's timber imports in 2007 and 2010[2.2 MB]​
  • Potential effects of climat​e change on forests and forestry in Australia[5.7 MB]​
  • The Changing Face of Australia's Forests[1.5 MB]​
  • Opportunities for commercial environmental forestry in Australia [1.8 MB]
  • Tree measurement manual for farm foresters

State and territory publications

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Australian Capital Territory

  • Plans of management for the forested conservation reserves of the ACT
  • ACT Strategic Plantation Management Plan 2017-2022

New South Wales

  • Forestry Corporation of NSW publications
  • Forestry Corporation of NSW management plans

Northern Territory

  • Territory Natural Resource Management p​lans and publications
  • ​The forest fauna of the Northern Territory: knowledge, conservation and management​​ (2004) [0.6 MB]​
  • NT Department of Environment and Natural Resources Strategic Plan 2017-20

Queensland

  • Department of Agriculture and Fisheries – forestry plans and publications

South Australia

  • Forestry in South Australiabrochure [1.1 MB]
  • Forestry SA management plans
  • State and Regional NRM plans and Water Allocation plans

Tasmania

  • Tasmania's State of the Forests Report 2017
  • Sustainable Timber Tasmania management plans

Victoria

  • Victoria's State of the Forests Report 2018
  • VicForests Annual and Sustainability Reports​
  • VicForests Forest Management Plan

Western Australia

  • Forest Management Plan 2014-2023
  • Forest Products Commission plans, reports and publications

International publications

  • Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) - Key findings of FRA 2020, and past assessments by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, including Australia's Country Report 2020​
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