Totally irrelevant. No woodchips have ever been produced from the Pilliga - it has produced sawn timber, sleepers and posts for the last hundred years on a sustainable basis, with small local mills and individual sleeper cutters. The loss this year by State forests will be at least in part because they have lost the income from the Pilliga forests. Most of the Pilliga is forests that have grown up since European settlement, mainly as a result of fire suppression.
John

