2018-06-27 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA   27 JUNE 2018




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SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                            27 JUNE 2018

                                                              Schedule 1           Project
  The Project is the proposed Yurol and Ringtail Forest Conservation Project.
   The Association’s vision which led to the development of the concept of the Project is that
   no later than 2030, at least 90% of the 2,400 ha of land (approximately) within the current
   Yurol and Ringtail State Forest areas will have transitioned to National Park under the
   Nature Conservation Act 1992, formally connecting the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy
   National Park with the Tewantin National Park and permanently protecting this highly valued
   Koala corridor and environmentally significant land for the benefit of the Noosa and broader
   Queensland community as well as interstate and international visitors.
   In that context Council formalised the concept of the Project which at a headline level is
   intended to comprise and/or achieve as the case may be:
      e   Areas of these State Forests not subject to Plantation Licence or required for the
          next five years for State purposes to be transferred direct to National Park.
      e   Council, the State and the Noosa Parks Association together funding a payment to
          HQP in return for which HOP will:
              o  immediately cease hardwood logging in the HQP Licence Area;
              ©  progressively over 5 years wind up its pine harvesting in the HQP Licence
                 Area; and
              o  Ata time or times to be agreed but in any event within 5 years surrender the
                 HQP Licence and permanently cease harvesting in the HQP Licence Area;
      e   Council obtaining from the State an appropriate.form of protected area tenure over
          the HQP Licence Area;
      e   Council appropriately rehabilitating the HQP Licence Area over a period intended to
          be not more than 5 years; and
      e   Atthe end of the rehabilitation period the conversion by the State of the rehabilitated
          HQP Plantation Area-to National Park. for environmental conservation purposes.

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