FEBRUARY 2026 UPDATE

Roading activities have commenced and the remaining coupe is under imminent threat.

Council have formally called for the end of logging in the Dial Range. They have been ignored.

Hundreds of community members representing a broad spectrum of the community have spoken out. They have been ignored.

Saul Eslake’s ‘Value of the Dial Range’ report made it abundantly clear that the Dial has immense importance as a community asset that provides jobs and recreational opportunities for locals and tourists. The Dial contributes $3.3m to the economy annually, while logging of this coupe would contribute less than 1% of this as an annualised value. Australia's top economists have been ignored.

All three levels of government are investing significant money into the Dial to increase access and promote this iconic range as a nature-based destination.

It beggars belief that logging would take place amidst this transformational investment.  

Alongside its economic value, the Dial Range is a vital, biodiversity-rich corridor that connects the coast to the alpine area, providing ecosystem services including threatened species habitat, drinking water filtration and carbon storage.

FEBRUARY 2025 UPDATE

The northern coupe (25 hectares) at the base of Mt Duncan has been removed from the logging schedule. The southern coupe at Riana (20 hectares) has been postponed to early 2026. WE CONTINUE TO CALL FOR THE FULL CESSATION OF LOGGING ACTIVITIES IN THE DIAL RANGE. Stay tuned by visiting our webpage to join our mailing list or become a member.

APRIL 2024

In April 2024, Forestry Tasmania stated they intend to begin the clearfell destruction of the first of two coupes in the Dial Range in April/May 2024.

This is outrageous.

The Dial is a biodiversity hotspot, home to iconic threatened Tasmanian animals and rare flora.

Easily accessible for locals and visitors, the Dial Range offers extensive mountain biking and hiking trails for people of all abilities, allowing important recreational opportunities right on the coasts’ doorstep.

We are calling for the pressure dial to be turned down on this beloved community asset and cease current logging plans. 

The Dial Range is synonymous with the north west as a popular multi-use recreation area in the heart of the coast. Winding mountain bike tracks, intrepid hiking and running trails, gentle family walks; the range has endless appeal to an array of users, both local and visitors. 

Threatened spotted-tail quolls, masked owls, Tassie devils and wedge-tailed eagles all roam these forests and soar through the airways. Creatures great and small rely on the Dial Range for their habitat, their food, their existence, and do not know where the reserves boundary ends and forestry land starts. 

The Dial Range is underpromoted and under-resourced. Booming mountain bike trails and walking tracks bring tens of thousands of visitors to the range each year yet there remains secret waterfalls hidden off-trail, nestled in magnificent wonderlands rarely seen by visitors. It is an economic powerhouse that has the potential for so much more.

These forests are worth more standing. The Dial Range coupes should be immediately removed from Foresty's chopping block.

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