South West Forests Defence Foundation

South West Forests Defence Foundation (SWFDF or SFDF) is 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. Around the same time, the forests of the Darling Scarp were being allocated for removal 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 environmental conditions for the woodchipping at Manjimup. The SWFDF continued to take issue with industry and government plans for Karri forests on the south coast region, and it was not until the late 1990s that the region was given protection from forestry by the creation of national parks and reserves.

Publications

• Newsletter / South-West Forests Defence Foundation. No. 1 (Apr. 1976)- (irregular)
• South West Forests Defence Foundation News. In: Bambooroo (Incorporating SFDF News), Issues 6 - 11, 1989. Great Walk Networking, Denmark, W.A.

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 0-9597517-2-6
• 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.
• Walter, Terry S. (1976) Some cost-benefit aspects of wood chipping in Western Australia : a report commissioned by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation. ISBN 0-9597517-0-X :
• 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 0-9597517-5-0 .
• 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 0-9593391-0-8
• 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 (W.A.) (1985) Wilderness, karri and coast, Shannon and D’Entrecasteaux National Parks : a submission to the Shannon/D’Entrecasteaux Planning Group Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation, ISBN 0-9597517-6-9
• 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 0-9597517-7-7
• 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 0-9597517-8-5

References

• [Environment Minister Peter Foss condemns South West Forest Defence Foundation court action against logging near Walpole] in Timberlines (Newsletter of the Bunnings Group of Companies), Jul. 1995, p. 1
• Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006. ISBN 0-7022-3554-7
• Western Australia. Forests Dept .The Manjimup Woodchip Project. [Como, W.A.] : Forests Dept., 1975.

External links

• http://www.schools.wafa.org.au/chip-history.rtf
• Executive Committee of the Conservation Council (Profile of Dr. Beth Schultz, Junior Vice President, Conservation Council of W.A.)