Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

A National Forest Inventory forest category that comprises hardwood or softwood plantations managed commercially to supply logs to wood-processing industries for the manufacture of wood products. Previously known as Industrial plantation.

‘Commercial plantation’ does not include forest reported in the other two national forest categories, ‘Native forest’ and ‘Other forest’.

Commercial plantations are reported through the National Plantation Inventory.

See Native forest, National Forest Inventory, National Plantation Inventory, Other forest, Plantation.