South West Forests Defence Foundation

South West Forests Defence Foundation (SWDF) '

Has been a group that has been involved with three decades of involvement with the conservation of the Jarrah and Karri forests of the South west region of Western Australia.

It was formed at approximately the same time as the government of Charles Court expressed interest in exploiting forests in the south west for woodchipping, and the forests of the Darling Scarp for the mining of bauxite. Another group the Campaign to Save Native Forests (CSNF) worked in co-operation with the SWFDF on publishing critiques of the enviornmental conditions for the woodchipping at Manjimup. The SWFDF continued to have issue with indsutry and government plans for Karri Forests on the south coast region, and it was not until the late 1990's the region was given protection from forestry by the creation of nati0onal parks and reserves.

Publications

• Newsletter / South-West Forests Defence Foundation. No. 1 (Apr. 1976)- (irregular)

Chronological - publications

• Schultz, E. and Conacher, A.J. (1976). Some current forest management practices in the south-west forests of Western Australia : submission by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment : inquiry into the Manjimup woodchip project Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) 2nd ed. ISBN 0959751726
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1976) Comments on the proposed Shannon reserve and alternatives : a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands, W.A : Comments and a memorandum concerning a review of recommendations for reserves in the southwest and south coastal areas of Western Australia; with special reference to the proposed Shannon Basis reserve : a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority.
• Armstrong, Patrick,A forest is more than a collection of trees Nedlands (W.A.) : South-West Forests Defence Foundation, 1977
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1979) Non-compliance with the provisions for environmental protection in the Marri woodchip project environmental impact statement South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands, W.A. ISBN 0959751750 .
• Karri at the crossroads : a proposal for the adequate conservation of the remaining karri forest in Western Australia and the creation of the Shannon Karri National Park / Conservation Council of W.A. (Inc.) ... [et al.]. [Nedlands, W.A 1982. ISBN 0959339108
• Conservation Council of Western Australia.(1982) Redirection of the Karri forest economy / by The Conservation Council of Western Australia, The South-West Forests Defence Foundation, The Campaign to Save Native Forests (W.A.)
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1982) People in glass houses - a reply to the critique by B.J. Beggs, Conservator of Forests, of "Karri at the crossroads" and associated paper "Redirection of the karri forest economy" / prepared for submission to the Environmental Protection Authority by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands: The Foundation
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation Inc. (1986) Karri forest facts : facts and figures about Western Australia's karri forest Nedlands, W.A : The Foundation. ISBN 0959751777
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation Inc. (1986) Biological and ecological research in the Karri forest : what needs to be done. Nedlands, W.A : South-West Forests Defence Foundation. ISBN 0959751785

References

• [Environment Minister Peter Foss condemns South West Forest Defence Foundation court action against logging near Walpole]

Timberlines (Newsletter of the Bunnings Group of Companies), Jul. 1995, p. 1,

External links

• http://www.schools.wafa.org.au/chip-history.rtf