WA: Timber towns pay price of WA's logging policy
West Australian timber towns are set to pay the price of the state government's commitmentto preserving old-growth forests and reducing jarrah logging.
500 jobs in the jarrah logging industry are set to be lost this year in the state'ssouthwest, as 37 mills close following a reduction in the annual logging quota from 320,000cubic metres to 140,000.
Forestry Minister KIM CHANCE has said only 10 of 47 mills which recently applied foraccess to …
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