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Bungabbee State Forest

forest in New South Wales, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ4997597 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bungabbee State Forest is a 955 hectare state forest about 15 kilometres north east of Casino in New South Wales.

Bungabbee Nature reserve is a 169 hectare section in the middle north of the state forest that was protected in 1999.

The forest was scheduled in 2019 for logging in 2021, but this was delayed or stopped following community reaction, including concern about protecting greater glider habitat.

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“Bungabbee State Forest” enters the record as forest in New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bungabbee, State and Forest can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bungabbee State Forest” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.