Currently no logging is allowed in the Wombat State Forest.

Loris Duclos, of Wheatsheaf, who was involved in the establishment of the regional forest agreements to protect Victorian forests a decade ago, now believes the system should be reviewed and overhauled.

Her comments coincide with the release of a new a report by the Department of Sustainability and Environment into progress made by the Victorian Regional Forest Agreements.

Ms Duclos has written a scathing submission to the DSE over the progress report.

"We need a plan that's applicable to our future, not a remnant of our past," she said.

Wombat State Forest is in a damaged state because of heavy logging in the 1980s and 90s, she said.

Since the 90s forestry policy has been aimed at regrowing forests and limiting logging.

But Ms Duclos said forests had been allowed to become "overstocked" _ and as a result trees would remain stunted, never growing to full height.

"We need to take out the bendy, twisty stuff in a lot of these over stocked areas," she said.

"There's no use locking these places up because we've been left with a highly altered forest."

Ms Duclos blamed politics, saying "no logging" policies by environmental groups had turned public opinion against restoration logging in regrowth native forests.

"DSE continues to deny access to logs from the Wombat Forest despite there being an available sawlog yield of 3600m3 pa," she wrote in her submission to the DSE.

"I am of the opinion the DSE stopped logging in the Wombat Forest under the threat of protests from groups politically opposed to any form of native forest logging."

She also said Victoria was lagging behind other states when it came to reviewing and updating its forest management plans.