Protecting our living legacies: A log of claims - Fire including prescribed

Untitled Protecting our living legacies: A log of claims Current protections and lack of of Energy, Environment and Climate out by barriers or tape to exclude oversights for significant trees on public Action (DEECA) benchmark DBH for workers, thus reducing the risk land in Victoria are deeply flawed and the ecological vegetation class the without removing the tree. [...] Undertake an independent long-term 2024 end of native forest logging monitoring project of the impact of Land (2012) and Strategic Bushfire fuel reduction works and bushfires on Management Plans and Burn Plans, and commitment. [...] Significant trees should be mapped and transparency of DEECA/Forest relevant reference in the transition out prior to fuel reduction works Fire Management Victoria (FFMV), of native forest logging, highlighting (including machinery use) and should planning and operations and their im- the importance of old and old trees for be protected. [...] Give the Office of the Conservation trees into the protected areas estate and ing dead trees) should be decided Regulator oversight of FFMV. [...] Change the definition of large and done by DEECA in respect to has data added and can be used to old trees to incorporate differences culturally significant trees, and built monitor significant trees across the in growth rates across all Forest infrastructure and must be expanded landscape to be maintained by land Management Areas and forest types: to large and old trees.