Legal State Forest Boundaries for New South Wales, Australia

Dedicated Legal State Forest boundaries for New South Wales, Australia, as defined by cadastre. The dataset was created by the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) through a project from 2013 to 2016 to remap and verify forest areas against the cadastre of the time. The data was last updated on 2026-05-12.

Use Cases

• Verify legal land tenure for forestry operations based on dedicated state forest boundaries.
• Analyze land-use change over time based on cadastral shifts mentioned in the description.
• Create base maps for environmental planning based on official state forest extents.

Strengths

• Boundaries were verified against cadastre in a dedicated project from 2013 to 2016.
• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Data was last updated on 2026-05-12 21:16:43.913524.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Some boundaries may not match the current cadastre maintained by Spatial Services.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW)

Collection Method

Remapped and verified dedicated state forest areas against cadastre.

Time Range

Project undertaken from 2013 to 2016.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 21:16:43.913524; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.