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Environment
Jack Gramenz

Forestry heads summoned to meeting after trees felled

The Forestry Corporation of NSW has "a significant history" of unlawful logging operations. (Andrew Kaineder/AAP PHOTOS)

The heads of a state-owned corporation fined thousands of dollars for each tree it mistakenly cut down have been summoned to a ministerial meeting after a court described a "significant history" of unlawful operations. 

Forestry Corporation of NSW was this week fined $360,000, almost $6800 for each one of the 53 eucalypt trees it should not have cut down in 2020.

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