NSW State forests

Forestry Corporation of NSW manages 2,186,893 hectares of land of behalf of the NSW Government. The area that we manage is primarily State forests, with small areas of freehold and private land managed through joint investment partnerships.

This is known as the Defined Forest Area that is certified under the Responsible Wood Certification System. This land includes native forests and timber plantations, and represents about 10 per cent of the forested land in NSW.

More than 98 per cent of the timber we supply to the community is certified to the Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management.

Defined Forest Area

The Defined Forest Area map identifies the forests certified to the Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management. Areas we manage are assigned to a forest management zone category based on the management priority for that land.

Detailed information on the Defined Forest Area managed by each operational division, by forest management zone, by forest and more is available below. If you have trouble viewing the report below, try clearing your browsing cache.