[talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas

[James Livingston]

On 28/06/2010, at 7:41 PM, Liz wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote:
>> State forests aren't the same thing as national parks, state forests
>> are government operated logging areas...
> not necessarily.
> In NSW
> it was that state forests had really loose rules about human recreation and 
> national parks had very heavy handed rules
> so that you could happily picnic and whatever in the state forest everywhere
> but now the NSW Sparks and Wildfires has taken over the State Forest reserves
> so now expect fishing to be banned on the river reserves and all fun taken out 
> of life.

Hmm... I was under the impression that State Forests and National Parks were basically the same except for whether they were protected under State or Commonwealth law - turns out I'm wrong at least in QLD.