The WA Government is embroiled in a new logging controversy with the revelation that a Dardanup forest containing 500-year-old jarrah trees will be logged and part of the timber burnt for charcoal.Taxpayers stand to make as little as $160,000 from the sale of wood from 372ha of forest - about the size of Kings Park.
Locals claim the plan will destroy the last pocket of isolated, ecologically significant bush in the area, taking down some of the remaining centuries-old curly jarrah trees and endangering the rare western ringtail possum.
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