Corporate Body

Western Australia Forests Department (1919 - 1985)

State of Western Australia

From
1919
Western Australia, Australia
To
1985
Functions
Forestry regulation and Advisory or regulatory body
Reference No
State Records Office of WA Agency ID: AU WA A76

Summary

The Forests Department was a Western Australian government department responsible for timber production, recreation and tourism, flora and fauna, and forestry research. Established in 1919 it took over the functions of the Wood and Forests Department (1896 - 1919). It was replaced by the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) (1985 - 2006) in 1985.

Skip to

Timeline

 1919 - 1985 Western Australia Forests Department
       1985 - 2006 Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management
             2006 - 2013 Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation
                   2013 - 2017 Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife
                   2013 - 2017 Western Australian Department of Environment Regulation
                         2017 - Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
                         2017 - Western Australian Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Related People

Published resources

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Ailie Smith

Created: 21 September 2001, Last modified: 2 March 2023

EOAS ID: biogs/A001561b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001561b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260