Cyclone Gabrielle exposed the risks of forestry slash. New research suggests little has changed

The rulebook is being rewritten again, with the government proposing changes to the National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry (NES-CF).

This would allow foresters to leave more slash in areas considered lower risk.

Have Gabrielle’s lessons for forestry management been learned? The Conversation's newly published research suggests that, even before these latest policy changes, they have not.

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