Frances Pike, from the Australian Forest and Climate Alliance, took Ms Faehrmann and local Greens candidate Ian Oxenford, on an inspection tour of an area which had recently been logged.

Ms Faehrmann is concerned by the current status quo.

"It's clear the Coalition cannot be trusted when it comes to protecting our national parks from the extreme Shooters Party," Ms Faehrmann said.

A passionate environmentalist, Ms Faehrmann has been a strong advocate for the need to protect national parks and other natural resources. Prior to entering Parliament, she headed up the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and was a board member of the NSW Environmental Defenders' Office.

Earlier in the week, Ms Faehrmann called on Premier Barry O'Farrell to immediately rule out opening up conservation areas such as national parks for logging.

At a media conference on May 13, the Premier ruled out logging in national parks.

"I stand by the statement made by the Environment Minister that we're not interested in commercial logging of our national parks," Mr O'Farrell said.

The Premier went on to say he is not prepared to engage in hypotheticals, particularly given that the review report has not been released.

"What is known, what is out there is that the State Government is not interested, as the Environment Minister has said, in any commercial logging activities in our national parks," he said.

"There will be no commercial logging in our national parks."

Cate Faehrmann is skeptical about the Premier's statement.

"Let's remember what Barry O'Farrell said about hunting in national parks - that it wouldn't happen," she said.

On Thursday Ms Faehrmann expressed her fear that sections of national forest still remain in the firing line. She believes certain sections of national forest may soon be swapped with sections of State forest land in a tenure swap arrangement.

North Coast Environment Council spokesperson and long-time forest campaigner Susie Russell agrees there is a real danger the State Government is planning to "cook up a scheme" and introduce some kind of 'non-commercial' logging.

Cate Faehrmann has called on the Premier to give a rock-solid guarantee that no national park or conservation area in NSW will be re-classified as a State forest, which would then allow them to be logged. She also wants to see improvements in the manner in which approved State forest areas are logged.

"At present it is not sustainably managed and native forests are being wiped out and replaced with a monoculture or single species in its place" Ms Faehrmann said.

Locally, Ian Oxenford has joined the call for the government to make some rock solid guarantees.

"They need to reassure the community that they will never open up areas currently reserved for conservation to logging," he said.

Like others in the Greens party, he blames the government's "cosy" relationship with the Shooters Party for current situation.

"Many of these national parks were the result of long battles by conservationists with support by both major parties. Any undoing of this result would be a tragedy for our environment," said Mr. Oxenford.

"The Forest Products Association has supported the concept of "tenure swap" where parts of national parks are swapped with state forests. This would be tantamount to 'national parks on wheels' where they could be moved randomly to suit the short term whims of the timber industry."

Ms Faehrmann believes the vast majority of people in NSW find comfort in the fact that national parks play a vital role in conserving our natural heritage.

"They would be appalled to know that the Shooters Party agenda of opening up national parks for hunting, and now logging, is very close to becoming reality," Ms Faehrmann said.