State told to lift forest game THE Tasmanian government has been urged to create an environment that supports domestic processing of its forest products to reduce sovereign risk concerns and ensure that the state's hardwood plantation estate is not exploited in a one-off harvest. A high-level panel into the private hardwood plantation estate chaired by former resources minister Martin Ferguson -- commissioned after the collapse of a number of agribusiness managed investment schemes -- says that without processing infrastructure, the forest estate would have "no value."