South West Forests Defence Foundation (SWFDF or SFDF) is a group that has been involved with three decades of involvement with the conservation of the Jarrah

Jarrah

Eucalyptus marginata is one of the most common species of Eucalyptus tree in the southwest of Western Australia. The tree and the wood are usually referred to by the Aboriginal name Jarrah...

 and Karri

Karri

Eucalyptus diversicolor, commonly known as the Karri, is a eucalypt which is native to the wetter regions of south west of Western Australia.-Description:...

 forests of the South West region of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

.

It was formed at approximately the same time as the government of Charles Court

Charles Court

Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, was a Western Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia and member for the seat of Nedlands for the Liberal Party for nearly 30 years.-Early life:...

 expressed interest in exploiting forests in the south west for woodchipping

Woodchipping

Woodchipping is the act and industry of chipping wood for pulp, processed wood products, and mulch.-Papermaking:Timber is converted to woodchips and sold, primarily, for pulp production used in paper manufacture...

. Around the same time, the forests of the Darling Scarp

Darling Scarp

The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north-south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia...

 were being allocated for removal for the mining of bauxite

Bauxite

Bauxite is an aluminium ore and is the main source of aluminium. This form of rock consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite γ-AlO, and diaspore α-AlO, in a mixture with the two iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite, and small amounts of anatase TiO2...

. Another group, the Campaign to Save Native Forests

Campaign to Save Native Forests

The Campaign to Save Native Forests was the name of a grassroots organisation which grew from a campaign started in Perth, Western Australia, in 1975, as a response to the development of a woodchipping industry in the south-west Jarrah and Karri forests of Western Australia...

 (CSNF), worked in co-operation with the SWFDF on publishing critiques of the environmental conditions for the woodchipping at Manjimup

Manjimup, Western Australia

Manjimup is a town in Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth. The town of Manjimup is a regional centre for the largest shire in the South West of Western Australia. At the 2006 census, Manjimup had a population of 4,239.-History:...

. The SWFDF continued to take issue with industry and government plans for Karri forests on the south coast region, and it was not until the late 1990s that the region was given protection from forestry by the creation of national parks and reserves.

Publications

• Newsletter / South-West Forests Defence Foundation. No. 1 (Apr. 1976)- (irregular)
• South West Forests Defence Foundation News. In: Bambooroo (Incorporating SFDF News), Issues 6 - 11, 1989. Great Walk Networking
  Great Walk Networking
  Great Walk Networking is a bushwalking community in Western Australia. The Great Walk started in 1988 as a protest walk from Denmark to Parliament House in Perth, to raise awareness of logging in Western Australia's old growth forests....
  
  , Denmark, W.A.

Chronological - publications

• Schultz, E. and Conacher, A.J. (1976). Some current forest management practices in the south-west forests of Western Australia : submission by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment : inquiry into the Manjimup woodchip project Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) 2nd ed. ISBN 0959751726
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1976) Comments on the proposed Shannon reserve and alternatives : a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands, W.A : Comments and a memorandum concerning a review of recommendations for reserves in the southwest and south coastal areas of Western Australia; with special reference to the proposed Shannon Basis reserve : a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority.
• Walter, Terry S. (1976) Some cost-benefit aspects of wood chipping in Western Australia : a report commissioned by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation. ISBN 095975170X :
• Armstrong, Patrick,A forest is more than a collection of trees Nedlands (W.A.) : South-West Forests Defence Foundation, 1977
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1979) Non-compliance with the provisions for environmental protection in the Marri woodchip project environmental impact statement South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands, W.A. ISBN 0959751750 .
• Karri at the crossroads : a proposal for the adequate conservation of the remaining karri forest in Western Australia and the creation of the Shannon Karri National Park / Conservation Council of W.A. (Inc.) ... [et al.]. [Nedlands, W.A 1982. ISBN 0959339108
• Conservation Council of Western Australia.(1982) Redirection of the Karri forest economy / by The Conservation Council of Western Australia
  Conservation Council of Western Australia
  The Conservation Council of Western Australia is the umbrella body for conservation groups and organisations in Western Australia. It has been the co-ordinator, publisher and guiding body for issues of woodchipping in the South West of Western Australia, the logging of old growth forests, as well...
  
  , The South-West Forests Defence Foundation, The Campaign to Save Native Forests
  Campaign to Save Native Forests
  The Campaign to Save Native Forests was the name of a grassroots organisation which grew from a campaign started in Perth, Western Australia, in 1975, as a response to the development of a woodchipping industry in the south-west Jarrah and Karri forests of Western Australia...
  
  (W.A.)
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1982) People in glass houses - a reply to the critique by B.J. Beggs, Conservator of Forests, of "Karri at the crossroads" and associated paper "Redirection of the karri forest economy" / prepared for submission to the Environmental Protection Authority by the South-West Forests Defence Foundation. Nedlands: The Foundation
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation (W.A.) (1985) Wilderness, karri and coast, Shannon and D’Entrecasteaux National Parks : a submission to the Shannon/D’Entrecasteaux Planning Group Nedlands, W.A. : South-West Forests Defence Foundation, ISBN 0959751769
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation Inc. (1986) Karri forest facts : facts and figures about Western Australia's karri forest Nedlands, W.A : The Foundation. ISBN 0959751777
• South-West Forests Defence Foundation Inc. (1986) Biological and ecological research in the Karri forest : what needs to be done. Nedlands, W.A : South-West Forests Defence Foundation. ISBN 0959751785

External links

• http://www.schools.wafa.org.au/chip-history.rtf
• Executive Committee of the Conservation Council (Profile of Dr. Beth Schultz, Junior Vice President, Conservation Council of W.A.)