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Jack Gramenz

Forestry Corporation fined $360k for cutting down trees

Forestry Corp of NSW was fined $360,000 for felling trees after the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires. (Andrew Kaineder/AAP PHOTOS)

Penalties for logging in a bushfire-hit forest may not be the last after a court accepted there was a pattern of offending in a state-owned corporation that says it is learning from its mistakes.

Forestry Corporation of NSW was fined $360,000 on Wednesday, almost $6800 for each one of the 53 eucalypt trees it should not have cut down four years ago.

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