A controversy over logging

Abstract

This case study discusses controversies around the State Owned Enterprise Timberlands and its logging operations on the West Coast. Successive governments have had an influence on how much logging of native timbre is permitted, along with a number of interest groups and stakeholders who are described as having a voice in how the industry has developed. The firing of the Timberlands manager, Kit Richards, in 2000 for his political and media campaigning illustrates the difficulties that managers operate under when the social and political environment around their organisation is unstable