S U S T A Sample Clauses

S U S T A. I N A B I L I T Y S T R A T E G Y F O R T I M B E R S U P P L I E S The annual supply of quota quality sawlogs is drawn from a number of sources including multi-aged and regrowth forests in Eden Management Area (a minimum of 23,000 m3 per annum for 20 years), Ingebyra State Forest in Monaro South Management Area (averaging 1,000 m3 per annum for 20 years); alternative South Coast Region areas (sufficient to bring the total quota quality sawlog volume to 25,000 m3 per annum for 5 years and 24,000 m3 per annum for the remaining 15 years). Any increases to these volumes must be sustainable and consistent with modelling using FRAMES. An operational research trial within Eden Region is proposed to be conducted by SFNSW* and EPA* associated with selective harvesting from some filter strips. Any timber resulting from this trial will contribute to the above supply. Beyond the 20 year period of the Term Agreement, the calculated long-term sustainable supply up to year 2040 from the Eden Management Area is approximately 26,000 m3 per annum. Volumes over this period are drawn from fire regrowth and forests from harvesting operations dating from the late 1960s. The long-term sustainable supply beyond 2040 has not been calculated. There is insufficient data currently available to confidently predict volumes and growth rates for regrowth forests that will yield quota quality sawlogs beyond that date. An inventory program has commenced to improve the base data on this component of the regrowth forest in Eden Management Area. The inventory program will be supplemented by an expanded set of Permanent Growth Plots in regrowth areas to improve the quality of growth rate prediction, supplemented by data on yields from regrowth forests logged over the next 40 years. Notwithstanding an inability to confidently predict sawlogs volumes beyond 2040 at present, the area of regrowth forest that will be available for harvesting and data currently available on growth rates in regrowth forest indicate that the sustainable supply of quota sawlogs beyond 2040 is expected to be significantly greater than 26,000 m3 per annum. Supply of pulpwood logs beyond the 20 year period is generally well above volumes available during the first 20 years, as substantial areas of forest derived from fire regrowth and harvesting from the late 1960s will be subject to thinning to enhance sawlog growth.

S U S T A. I N A B I L I T Y S T R A T E G Y F O R T I M B E R S U P P L I E S A sustainable timber supply arrangement is to be implemented where the annual committed volumes of quota quality sawlogs are reduced from 149,000 m3 to 129,000 m3 for 20 years. This volume is subject to an inventory review to be completed in 2007 (see Section 3.5). Twenty thousand (20,000) cubic metres of HQL sawlogs allocated in the UNE Region will be sourced from the LNE Region. Any increases to these volumes must be sustainable and consistent with modelling using FRAMES. (Note: These reductions to sustainable volumes are in addition to the previous 30% reductions as part of the 1996 Interim Forest Assessment.) A staged long-term sustainability strategy based on a 20 year supply of quota quality sawlogs at the above level is underpinned by a long-term sustainable supply of quota quality sawlogs from this region. Supply levels over the next 20 years have been set to ensure social and economic imperatives are met and to allow a transition to a greater contribution of quota supplies from regrowth forests and plantations, under an orderly, staged transition. The long-term (100 year) supply predictions average of 70,000 m3/year for high quality logs from existing (as at 1 January 1999) native forests and existing plantations managed by SFNSW*. This long-term supply prediction only comprises part a long term forest timber resource. Additional quota quality volume is intended to be obtained from a range of initiatives including; private property purchased by SFNSW*; plantations established by SFNSW* in joint ventures with private landowners or on purchased land; or through the trading of carbon sequestration rights. Volumes of high quality logs from these proposed sources would add significantly to the volumes from existing native forest and plantation and would contribute to long-term sustainable yield that differ from the 20 year committed volume by about 15-20% on average in UNE region. These arrangements would ensure timber is provided over the next 20 years within a long-term sustainability strategy.