Mount Elphinstone Forest

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.14 - No.09, Summer 1995

Broken Agreement

"Nothing will happen in the Elphinstone LRUP area without the LRUP committee's sanction"

    Russ Hughes, Acting District Manager
    Sunshine Coast Forest District
    August 6, 1992

  • According to the Ombudsman's office, the Acting District Manager did have the authority to make this promise.
  • Road-building and logging is going ahead in the area, without the sanction of the LRUP Committee and in branch of the written promise.
  • The Forest Minister has denied deferment of activity in the LRUP area. On one hand, he speaks of obligations to logging companies, but on the other hand, he breaks an obligation to the community.