As June 30 approached, one of Australia's biggest native logging companies, the scandal-plagued VicForests, was preparing to shut its doors.
It was a moment pitched as the end of native logging in Victoria.
But as she worked to shutter VicForests, the organisation's CEO, Monique Dawson, was already working with other powerful logging bosses to set up a brand new organisation – The Healthy Forests Foundation, which would hire loggers and logging lobbyists from VicForests and elsewhere.
The Healthy Forests Foundation's core purpose, according to ASIC documents, is "the protection and enhancement of the natural environment".
David Lindenmayer from ANU has another view.