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FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5C – BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Biodiversity Conservation Protection of Biodiversity Values – Mandatory Action Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Comments: Environmental Impact Assessment Extent (E) Duration (t) Asset Value (z) Impact Auditor Comments FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 9 OF 22 FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5C – BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Biodiversity Conservation Habitat Trees – Mandatory Actions Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance Environmental Impact Assessment Extent (E) Duration (t) Asset Value (z) Impact Auditor Comments 5C8 5C9 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.2.2 At the coupe harvesting level, Conservation the retention of habitat trees of Biodiversity or patches and longlived understorey elements in appropriate numbers and configurations must be allowed for. 2.2.2 At the coupe harvesting level, Conservation provision for the continuity and of Biodiversity replacement of old hollowbearing trees within the harvestable area, must be allowed for. Habitat trees have been retained in required numbers in accordance with Schedule 2 of the Management Procedures. Habitat trees are adequately selected / marked and / or protected. FCP specifies where buffers or other exclusion areas have been extended for the purpose of habitat retention. (Mgmt Proc 1.4.5 (b)) Replacement of habitat trees has been considered and selected and marked in accordance with the Code requirements. FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 10 OF 22
FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5C – BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Biodiversity Conservation Habitat Trees – Mandatory Actions Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance Environmental Impact Assessment Extent (E) Duration (t) Asset Value (z) Impact Auditor Comments 5C10 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5C11 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 5C12 Code of Practice for Timber Production 2007 2.5.1 Coupe Planning 2.5.1 Coupe Planning 2.5.1 Coupe Planning Timber harvesting operations are not permitted in special protection zones (buffers, habitat protection etc.) or other excluded areas identified on the coupe plan unless harvesting has been authorised and documented for: • protection of public and worker safety or forest health; or • the construction of roads or stream crossings. Timber must only be felled from within the designated boundaries of an approved coupe as indicated on the Forest Coupe Plan and (where required) marked in the field. Harvesting is excluded from special protection zones except for OHS reasons or construction of roads or stream crossings. Is appropriate documentary evidence of approval to fell trees for protection of public or OHS reasons available in the Coupe diary Timber is only felled within areas defined in the FCP. Timber must not be directed to Timber is only felled within fall outside the coupe boundary areas defined in the FCP unless the operator is unless documented specifically authorised authorisation is provided. otherwise and the reason for authorisation is documented. The following prescriptions also apply for salvage operations within Alpine and Mountain Ash dominated forest only: FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 11 OF 22 FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM, AUDIT WORKBOOK 5C – BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Biodiversity Conservation Habitat Trees – Mandatory Actions Ref Origin Section Prescription Audit Criteria Compliance 5C13 Fire Salvage Harvesting Prescriptions 2009 8.1 Habitat Retain an average of at least 5 Tree Exclusion habitat trees per hectare of net Areas coupe area in exclusion areas of greater than 0.1ha. Appropriate numbers of habitat trees have been protected in exclusion areas of >0.1ha Environmental Impact Assessment Extent (E) Duration (t) Asset Value (z) Impact Auditor Comments Comments: Note: Replaces Schedule 2 of the Management Procedures (habitat tree requirements for Ash salvage). Prescriptions protecting trees of pre-1900 origin continue to apply for Central Highlands. FOREST AUDIT PROGRAM – MODULE 5 HARVESTING AND CLOSURE, APRIL 2010 PAGE 12 OF 22
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