THREAD: Forestry Corp’s Total Forest Closure Notice is fake: no arrests at #ForestWalkOn

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Margo Kingston

Co-publisher and editor-in-chief at No Fibs

Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams’ ‘Canberra Babylon’ contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.

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Phew! I got lost, drove rocky waterlogged trails through the Yarratt State Forest – lots of forestry utes & blokes but not pulled over. Yarratt Forest NOT closed.

Got to corner of Yarratt and Cedar Party Roads, and there’s a new sign. It’s a bloody Sham.#SaveBulgaForest. pic.twitter.com/ziEXQL2AQE

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

2. Here we go. #ForestWalkOn at 8 into the ‘closed’ Yarratt & DoubleDuke State Forests the open Bateman State Forest amid Forestry Corps offices. #SaveBulgaForest #NSWVotes pic.twitter.com/arWsR5uQgm

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

3. Instead of fear I will be open to the adventure – who knows what will happen? Elands grassroots is amazing – brewed coffee, home made cakes, quiet determination with a smile. @SueHigginson_ is here for legal advice. #ForestWalkOn. #SaveBulgaForest pic.twitter.com/9NJ4sL6kEF

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

4. @bulga99 worked so hard to save our State native forests in lead up to #NSWVotes where big parties have closed their eyes.

Yarratt, koala habitat, only State Forest in our region that didn’t burn – now smashed contra Natural Resources Commission advice. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/o1v09oNgey

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

5. Protesters brought bicycles, a wheelchair, to drive through Yarratt – through traffic allowed. But Forestry Corp changed closure notice yet AGAIN – no unauthorised person can enter. Except everyone can bar people FC doesn’t like. ABUSE OF POWER. I’ll plead NG. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/U9GoCyWzbl

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

6. @sue_higginson says voters will elect either the Greens’ number 3 Lynda-June Coe or One Nation’s number 2 to Mark Latham, so please vote Green in the Upper House to save OUR native forests from logging. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/OSx2vGqJlq

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

7. I met veteran forest campaigner Marg Mclean when #leardblockade camp a few people by the roa in unbearable fly-ridden heat. Tried to save the Leard State Forest cleared for a coal mine. “I want to see a forest that didn’t burn”. Yarratt only one in our region. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/u0CLJSuWH2

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

8. Now Forestry Corp people say the road we’re walking through isn’t closed. But the sign we ignored to walk past! And the Forest Closure Notice saying the entire Yarratt state Forest is closed! SHAM. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/Xmjxeb1AiI

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

Up ahead on our #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/5NFx3Xe8x2

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

9. Here we go. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/qQ9qo0kDhh

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

10. We walked past the loggers and their FOREST CLOSED sign. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/hBiIiOZP69

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

11. Forestry Corp officer tells @Earth1stlinda2, former Great Lakes councillor, to leave because forest is closed (???).We join her to #ForestWalkOn. pic.twitter.com/kLJyNzlio6

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

12. Behind us on the #ForestWalkOn – several ‘unauthorised vehicles driving through the ‘closed’ Yarratt State Forest. pic.twitter.com/IYEGZ9KVaS

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

13. Bicycle scouts report to #ForestWalkOn – roadblock about 1km ahead and police have been called. Forestry Corp lied to police in our first Yarratt action – said public roads were closed when they weren’t. The Forest Closure Notice was fake – https://t.co/srjJ0gs3LN pic.twitter.com/aNluC0b2i5

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

14. So much young native forest being logged in the Yarratt State Forest – no chance to grow up to be old, look after our water, help mitigate climate change, house koalas and other endangered native animals. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/8YoqAMkG7Z

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

15. See the koala scratches in this Grey Gum? One of the few older trees on our #ForestWalkOn the Yarratt State Forest. It will be logged. pic.twitter.com/X9y2Hx0DVT

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

15. Forestry Corp bloke says 5 minutes to leave, then photographs all present. Music from the Lock On CD, a collection of @forests4ever songs of the 1990’s struggle. https://t.co/jLJdnwsk0N#ForestWalkOn. pic.twitter.com/j7TXvtQW7r

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

16. Fran Fagan, from Wingham near the Yarratt State Forest. Never arrested before – why risk it? “The Govt is using our money to destroy our native forests. We need them and our native animals need them.”#ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/rM4puwUJIc

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

27. Still doing the #ForestWalkOn. pic.twitter.com/kMTMnwDiht

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

18. Logging on show, crashing down little trees to get to the bigger ones. Clear fell. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/DbkFYcGG5O

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

19. Here it is, folks. Logging the inly State Forest in the Port Macquarie region that WASN’t burned. It’s high value koala habitat. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/NRfJ3rJyEm

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

Forestry Corp officer James Jaggers directs us to leave. Offence is entering within 100 metres of a forestry operation. Not for entering a closed State forest, although he still says the entire forest is closed when it ain’t. Here’s the true closed road. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/m9ruSwbDOY

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

20. So going into an actual logging operation area a big time crime & dangerous. 30 people willing to be arrested, but they ain’t gunna do it to avoid publicity. Looks like we’ll get fines in the mail.

We’ve proved the Forestry Corp’s Total Closure Notice is fake. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/w2HD1E5wkg

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

21. I did my bit, can’t say I’m unhappy to not get arrested on the #ForestWalkOn. Gunna vote Green in #MyallLakes votes, safe Nat, and in the Upper House. First time for a long time. https://t.co/HwbimzHiT8

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 15, 2023

22. Main Road in Yarratt State Forest – Forestry Corp got public flood recovery $ for this road! Yarratt only public forest in our region not damaged in 2019-20 fires. NSW Govt ignored Natural Resources Commission advice to stop logging for regen & displaced koalas. #ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/8mTfo2P6TH

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 16, 2023

23. Forestry Corp’s latest Yarratt Closed Forest Notice is fake – closed only to protesters, no notice re public roads to Council, or @nswenviromedia – no access to a nature reserve.

Many unauthorised’ cars driving through.

Gotta laugh, not cry, Cath Rankin.#ForestWalkOn pic.twitter.com/FOEwhC6IcM

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 16, 2023

24. Bay Post report on Bateman’s Bay #ForestWalkOn is – would love screenshots (paywall). It begins:

South coast anti-logging groups have held a walk-in protest in the heart of Batemans Bay to call for an end to the practice they see as "heartbreaking".https://t.co/YcSnIR1Gl8 pic.twitter.com/Rc5tsX0iRH

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 16, 2023

25. Heartbreaking, yes, but ya gotta have fun in 34 degrees. #ForestWalkOn video by former Great Lakes councillor @Earth1stlinda2. Music from 1999 @forests4ever CD ‘Lock On’. It’s a long campaign, trying to stop the NSW Govt logging the people’s native forests. https://t.co/dtBlbMQRZi

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 16, 2023

26. Pics from the #ForestWalkOn at DoubleDuke State Forest near Evans Head by @sugarglida. https://t.co/qV8D4jaNuU

— 📣Margo Kingston💧🔥 (@margokingston1) March 16, 2023

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