Information sheet Box Ironbark Domestic Firewood Permit System No. 3 Firewood Collection Agents & Community Firewood Supply Areas

Nominating an agent Box-Ironbark Community Firewood to collect firewood – 2010 Supply Areas For customers who are unable or choose not to collect Community Firewood Supply Areas (CFSAs) have been their own firewood from Box-Ironbark State Forests, established to provide residents with a supply area to an agent may be nominated to collect the firewood collect their firewood. on their behalf. The following table shows the townships that fall within Customers must purchase their own firewood permit and each allocated Box-Ironbark CFSA: pass the details onto their nominated agent. Customers must make their own arrangements with their nominated CFSA Town /Locality agent to collect their firewood. Avoca Avoca Homebush A paid nominated agent is required to have a current Redbank Wareek Timber Harvesting Operators Licence (THOL). Details of Lexton Amphitheatre Landsborough the paid agent and their THOL number must be provided Navarre Elmhurst on the customer’s Firewood Permit Application Form. Bendigo Huntly Customers may wish to contact one of the following * forest operators who all have a current Timber Harvesting *Lockwood Strathfieldsaye Operator Licence. This list is not exclusive, and customers Epsom Kamarooka may wish to contact others: Elmore Sutton Grange Castlemaine Castlemaine Newstead Contact Chewton Maldon CFSA Agent Phone Number Guilford Malmsbury Campelltown Harcourt Avoca Edwin Summers 5465 3498 Dunolly Dunolly Eddington Bendigo Gary Unthank 0417 300 173 Newbridge Tarnagulla Heathcote Heathcote Bendigo Merv Wakeman 5444 1914 Redcastle Castlemaine Doug Ford 5345 6204 Redesdale Toobarac Moormbool West Castlemaine Neils Zahle 5474 2271 Inglewood Inglewood Castlemaine Gary Unthank 0417 300 173 Bridgewater Wedderburn Arnold Dunolly Geoff Atherton 5468 1089 Logan Dingee Maryborough Baringhup Maryborough Heathcote John McCarthy 5433 3285 Talbot Havelock Heathcote Gary Unthank 0417 300 173 Clunes Carisbrook Lillicur Heathcote Peter Plowright 5433 3270 Rushworth Rushworth Tatura Inglewood John Coffey 5438 3014 Stanhope Nagambie Murchison Inglewood Maurice Hunt 5469 1260 St. Arnaud Stuart Mill Tottington Inglewood Gary Unthank 0417 300 173 St. Arnaud Donald Charlton Emu Maryborough Fred Poole 5464 2374 Customers may nominate a neighbouring CFSA if they can demonstrate that the firewood coupe is closer to their residence than the coupe in their allocated CFSA. Customers cannot nominate Bendigo CFSA as their alternate supply area. DSE Offices have maps of CFSA boundaries and coupe locations. * Bendigo West residents may nominate the Dunolly or Inglewood CFSA. No. 3 Firewood Collection Agents & Community Firewood Supply Areas

Firewood areas and volumes Firewood supply areas are located as close to towns as possible. They are checked regularly by forest officers for remaining firewood volume and new supply areas are opened when necessary. However firewood is often not visible from the main roads around the outside of the supply area. Customers need to follow tracks off main roads into the supply area. Blue arrows fixed to trees will sometimes be used to direct customers into areas with uncut wood.

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