WA's Department of Environment and Conservation is leading the development of a new plan on how to best manage the tuart forest over the next decade.
The forest's tuart trees are the tallest of their kind in the world and have important scenic and conservation values.
A 12-person community advisory committee has been established to advise the department about related issues of public concern.
The department's south-west district manager, Greg Mair, says the members of the group represent a wide range of interests.
"There are people who have been very long time residents in the area through to people with specific conservation interests," he said.
Opposition environment spokesman and the Member for Capel, Steve Thomas, says the management plan is great news, but says he is concerned about how the State Government has worked with advisory committees in the past.
Dr Thomas says a mineral sands mine started up in the Ludlow tuart forest last year and the committee called for an amount of money set aside for regeneration, but says that request was denied.
"I had a number of people who were on committees set up by the State Government to advise on how they should actually monitor and manage the tuart forest in which the mineral sands mining was occurring, and that's what that money was set aside to do," he said.Australian Broadcasting Corporation
