The NSW government has re-declared the areas for licensed recreational hunting and will take bookings from today.

Those who want to take advantage of the lifting of a ban in place since July will have to abide by what acting NSW primary industries minister Andrew Stoner calls "important new safety protocols".

The decision was made six months after the disbanding of the controversial amateur hunting regulator and a safety review but has already been criticised by a member of the NSW Greens.

A 12-month trial of the new regime was supposed to start in October but that plan was suspended in July after the Game Council, which licensed and regulated amateur hunting, was broken up and its staff shifted into the Department of Primary Industries.

Senior public servant Steve Dunn reviewed the council and found it was poorly governed and had an "inherent conflict of interest".

But hunting in state forests, which has been legal since 2006, will soon resume subject to new safety measures advocated in the latest Forestry Corporation of NSW risk assessment.

"The NSW government has always committed to reintroducing recreational licensed hunting in state forests, but only if it could be confident that this activity could be undertaken in the safest manner possible," Mr Stoner said.

"This activity may now recommence but R-licensed hunters must comply with important new safety protocols."

As part of the new safety measures, people must log details of the time and place they wish to hunt through an online booking system, complete two "online education modules" and carry a GPS device which holds government issued hunting and exclusion zone maps.

The plan to allow amateur shooters into state parks was part of a deal the government struck with the Shooters Party, which holds the balance of power in the state's upper house, in exchange for support of power privatisation.

Greens upper house member David Shoebridge criticised the decision to allow hunters back into Boyben State Forest, 52km north-east of Dubbo, and other state forests.

"The government's own consultant acknowledges there's a genuine risk of people being shot with unsupervised hunting in state forests but, regardless, the minister has reopened the parks," he said.

"Sending unsupervised, armed amateurs with no proven competency into public spaces is a recipe for disaster."

State forests were first opened to amateur hunting in NSW in 2006.

The Orana Hunting Club and landholders neighbouring the Goonoo National Park and Goonoo State Conservation Area previously told the Daily Liberal they supported legislation that allowed licensed shooters to cull pests.

For more information about licensed recreational hunting in state forests or to make a booking to hunt form today visit www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/hunting .