New South Wales State Forest Boundaries for Land Management

State Forest boundaries represent gazetted areas reserved for forestry purposes in New South Wales, Australia. The dataset is maintained by the NSW Forestry Corporation and Spatial Services, sourced from government gazettes and environmental agencies. It was initially published in February 2020 and is part of the state's Foundation Spatial Data Framework.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial relationships between State Forest polygons and adjacent Land Parcel and Property theme polygons for land management planning.
• Map gazetted forestry areas using the feature layer's geometry to support conservation and resource allocation studies.
• Monitor changes to forest boundaries by referencing the authority of reference feature class for updates documented in government gazettes.

Strengths

• Dataset is part of the authoritative Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) for NSW.
• Features are positioned in alignment with Land Parcel and Property theme extents for consistency.

Limitations

• No overall positional accuracy is reported in the database.
• The service uses the GDA94 spatial reference, which may cause misalignment in GDA2020 environments.

Provenance

Source

NSW Forestry Corporation and Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW.

Collection Method

Maintained from information sourced from Office of Environment and Heritage and NSW Government Gazette notices.

Time Range

Initial publication 05/02/2020.

Freshness

Other (update frequency not specified). Data currency date is listed as 01/01/3000, indicating a planned long-term validity.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.