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