Certification of a Forest Practices Plan - Tasmania

You will need this certification if you intend to undertake any forest practice on any land. A forest practice is considered to be any of the following:

• harvesting and regenerating native forest
• harvesting and / or establishing plantations
• clearing trees for other purposes, including agriculture
• clearing and converting threatened native vegetation communities
• constructing roads and quarries for the above purposes
• harvesting tree ferns.

A forest practices plan contains the following information:

• specifications of forest practices being carried out
• plan for restocking the land with trees
• if harvesting tree ferns, the name of harvester, the number of ferns and the period of time for harvesting
• if clearing land: the identity, number and location of any threatened native vegetation community and details of replacement or development works
• if harvesting timber, the name of the timber processor
• the period that forest practices will be carried out and the period for which the plan is to remain in force.