VicForests faces court
Adam Morton
The Age - January 31, 2012
CLAIMS that Victoria's state-owned timber agency illegally logged a protected rainforest area in the state's far east will be tested at a Supreme Court trial.
Conservation group Environment East Gippsland has accused VicForests of logging a rainforest area of significance near the Errinundra Plateau.
VicForests says the map of protected area relied on by Environment East Gippsland is incorrect.
The timber agency has given an undertaking there will be no further logging in the area before the trial starting on April 10.
A trial over separate allegations of illegal logging, in the state's central highlands near Toolangi, starts next week.